[Section four. Liberty bonds getting kicked around and howling "I wanta go back to par"]

A figure labeled "Liberty Bonds" precedes a procession of fat men waving American flags who kick it. They, in turn, are followed by a group of Ku Klux Klan members carrying tar, feathers, and a tree with a lynched man hanging from it.
Inscribed above image: Are we ready for the next war? Never fear, We'll be with you boys for one buck a year.
Inscribed, lower right: Good Morning.
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The published caption continues: The dollar-a-year patriotic profiteers, including the fifty seven varieties of Trust presidents, with Charlie Schwab sprinkling the street. Ku Klux Klan, bodyguard for the profiteers and standard bearers of race hatred, reaction and private vengeance."
Title from Good morning.
Bequest and gift; Caroline and Erwin Swann; 1977; (DLC/PP-1977:215.160)
Young's drawing was fourth in a series of nine composing the "Back to Normalcy" inaugural parade, published in the left-wing journal Good Morning. The magazine facetiously claimed that it was unthinkable for the greatest nation in the world not to have an inaugural parade and celebration such as President-elect Harding was planning. The parade was spread across 9 pages, all forming an orderly procession of participants. All of the parade members were linked to some sort of political or social ill of the past, which threatened to return in Republican Harding's administration.
Published in: Good Morning, February 15, 1921.
Exhibited: Cartoonists Guild, "The Art in Cartooning," 1975; Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, "The Image of America in Caricature & Cartoon, 1976.