The Reciprocity situation La situacion del asunto reciprocidad.

Cartoon shows Cuban ambassador to the U.S. Gonzalo de Quesada standing in front of a blank sheet of paper and a bottle of ink. His arms are being tied behind his back by Cuban President Tomás Estrada Palma who is in turn being blindfolded by a man "Sugar Trust" with a blindfold "[paragraph] 16 Escala, 25 Escala Holandesa" referring to portions of the Tariff Law of 1897 related to sugar. A vulture flies overhead labeled "Anexion" (Annexation).
"Cuban-American Reciprocity Bureau, Wash., D.C. 1902".