http://www.ck12.org Chapter 7. The Progressive Era
Do Not Embarrass the Administration - Political Cartoon
Source: This cartoon was published in Harper’s Weekly, a New York-based magazine, in November 1906. It
shows Secretary of Commerce and Labor Metcalf speaking to a young schoolboy, who represents San Francisco.
(Figure7.1).
FIGURE 7.1
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