The United States abroad / Hassman̄., Political Cartoon

Illustration shows the American Ambassador standing at the head of a dinner table around which are seated the heads of state of several European countries and China, offering them baked beans and "Ice Water" for dinner, also cooling in a bucket of ice are bottles of "Root Beer" and "Ginge[r] Ale"; on a tight budget, beans are all he can afford.

Caption: American Ambassador (who has to live on his salary) Let me help you to some more baked beans, Princess. My wife cooked them herself.
Illus. in: Puck, v. 63, no. 1627 (1908 May 6), centerfold.
Copyright 1908 by Keppler & Schwarzmann.