HE DARES TO TOUCH IT, a political cartoon on Puck
HE DARES TO TOUCH IT, a political cartoon on Puck Magazine cover, Oct. 2, 1912. Woodrow Wilson touching a live electric wire that spells out The Tariff. Theodore Roosevelt and William H. Taft flee in fear of getting electrocuted. During Wilsons administration, a Federal Income Tax was introduced to reduce tariffs on imports (BSLOC_2017_2_134)
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11970680
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45362353
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2603px x 3000px
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Credit
Mary Evans / Everett Collection
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Everett Collection
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