The campaign issue / Keppler. - Political cartoon, public domain image

Illustration shows the Republican elephant labeled "G.O.P." holding an empty "Dinner Pail" which he is asking a woman labeled "Mrs. Consumer" to fill, she is holding an "Empty Market-Basket" labeled "Tariff Tax on the Necessities of Life".

Caption: The Republican Elephant Well, the campaign is on. Fill the Dinner-Pail for me. / The Woman in the Case You great big Gop! How can I give you a Full Dinner-Pail from an Empty Market-Basket?
Illus. in: Puck, v. 71, no. 1835 (1912 May 1), centerfold.
Copyright 1912 by Keppler & Schwarzmann.