The two-faced protectionist / Kep., Political Cartoon

Illustration shows a gigantic, two-faced man wearing a money-bag crown with "$" around it, sitting on a U.S. Custom House on the shore of U.S.A.; he is holding up two pieces of paper, one addressed "To the American Working Men" which states "Preserve the high tariff and protect yourselves from the competition of foreign cheap labor. The tariff maintains for you the American standard of living", and the other, addressed "To Foreign Labor" states "Come over to free America and work. High wages and steady employment. You will make more here in a week than you can there in a month." Gathered on the shores are American laborers and foreign laborers.

Caption: The tariff protects the American worker from competition with foreign cheap labor abroad, but not from competition with foreign cheap labor here at home.
Illus. in: Puck, v. 71, no. 1828 (1912 March 13), centerfold.
Copyright 1912 by Keppler & Schwarzmann.