Mahomet Goes to the Mountain

Mahomet Goes to the Mountain

McCutcheon, John T. (John Tinney), 1870-1949

Political cartoons

Minnesota--Winona

Tariff

Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930

Aldrich, Nelson W. (Nelson Wilmarth), 1841-1915

President William Taft portrays Mahomet, attempting to attract the mountain of sentiment in favor of further reducing the tariff downward to come to him using a speech on the progress of tariff reduction he gave in Winona, Minnesota. As the mountain grows larger in the second panel, Taft's supporters comment "There's only a handfull of them." In the final panel Taft leaves to got to the mountain of sentiment with a speech in hand on further dropping the tariff.

President William H. Taft (1909-1913) called Congress into a special session to discuss tariff reductions in 1909; however, once the bill reached the Senate, powerful Republican Senator Nelson W. Aldrich of Rhode Island (1881-1911) added provisions reversing reductions and increasing other tariffs.

McCutcheon, John T.

Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum

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John T. McCutcheon Collection

political cartoon

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47 x 36 cm