Folder 15
Contains 6 Results:
Original Number: 27, 1936-12-16
Caption: 163d Anniversary of the Boston Tea Party! Description: “Congress” has tossed “D.C.” off the ship U.S. and into the ocean, instead of tea boxes labeled “taxation without representation.” “D.C.” complains, “Hey! It was the tea, not me, to go overboard!”
Original Number: 3, 1938-04-19
Caption: none Description: Surrounded by news about new taxes, “D.C” looks at a painting of the beginning of the Revolutionary War and says, “That war was never won, if you ask me!”
Original Number: none, 1938-12-16
Caption: 165th Anniversary of the Boston Tea Party! Description: On the Good Ship Democracy, “D.C.” urges President Roosevelt to heave overboard a box labeled “Taxation without representation is poison to democracy.”
Original Number: 6, 1941-03-11
Caption: Wish he would let his left hand know what his right hand is doing Description: A figure representing the House of Representatives signs the “Lend-Lease Bill to help preserve democracy” with one hand while his other hand is clubbing “D.C.” (who is holding a sign noting an “unfair income tax”) over the head.
Original Number: 7, 1941
Caption: none Description: “D.C.” is upset because the Sumners-Capper vote has been postponed again, but the ghost of Abraham Lincoln encourages him to “Keep up the fight—they can’t postpone your emancipation forever.”
Original Number: 2, 1946-01-29
Caption: none Description: “D.C.” writes a letter to his son, a soldier stationed in occupied Germany, saying he must be proud to be “enforcing the right of all people to vote” but that “D.C.” misses him at home in the voteless District.