'Ye scoldes',heavyset man,Teddy Roosevelt,Congress,Uncle Sam,1909,Billy Club

Title: 'Ye scoldes'
Creator(s): Keppler, Udo J., 1872-1956, artist
Date Created/Published: 1909 Feb. 3 [publication date]
Summary: A heavyset man depicting Congress and Teddy Roosevelt, both in colonial dress, sit beside each other, locked in a stockade at the ankles. Congress, with arms folded, looks angrily at Roosevelt who, with arms folded, thumbs his nose at his adversary. Their backs are against the base of a column beside which stands Uncle Sam in a three-cornered hat, who guards them with a billy club.
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Signed, lower left: Kep.
Stamped on verso: Keppler & Schwarzmann, 'Puck' Jan 18 1909 New York
Stamped on verso: Overlay Dept. 410 P.M. Frid Jan 22 1909.
The published version is printed in color.
Title printed on label adhered below image.
Bequest and gift; Caroline and Erwin Swann; 1974; (DLC/PP-1974:232.1057)
After Congress rejected Theodore Roosevelt's proposal to expand the activities of the Secret Service, he challenged his already strained relations with the legislature, by accusing its members of denying his request for fear of becoming the targets of investigation. Congress furiously responded to the accusation by endorsing a suggestion to publicly denounce the President, to which an angry Roosevelt retaliated by threatening to expose the secrets of Congressional members. When he did, both parties were outraged and stood united in their opposition to him. On January 8, 1909, the House censured him, while the Senate ridiculed him for permitting the illegal merger of the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company and the United States Steel Corporation during the Panic of 1907. Keppler illustrates the tense relationship between the conservative Congress and the progressive President.
Published in: Puck, February 3, 1909.
Published in: The image of America in caricature & cartoon / Amon Carter Museum of Western Art. Fort Worth : The Museum, 1975, p. 101.
Exhibited: Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, 'The Image of America in Caricature & Cartoon,' 1976.
Subjects:
Roosevelt, Theodore,--1858-1919.
Uncle Sam (Symbolic character)--1900-1910.
Presidents & the Congress--1900-1910.
Stocks (Punishment)--1900-1910.
Drawings--American--1900-1910.
Editorial cartoons--American--1900-1910.
Periodical illustrations--American--1900-1910.
Bookmark /2009616925/
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