About this image...

Image Title: The Interrupted Ceremony, 1911

Creator: Keppler, Udo J., 1872-1956, artist

Date: 1911 March 8.

Summary: Illustration shows a wedding between Uncle Sam and a woman labeled "Canada" with President Taft as the clergyman; when he gets to the point in the ceremony where anyone who objects to the marriage may speak, all the guests in the church (they all have hogs heads) are clamoring to object.

Notes: Caption: Clergyman Taft Into this common-sense estate of reciprocity these two persons present come now to be joined. If any man can show just cause why they may not lawfully be joined together, let him now sp / Chorus of Tariff-Protected Monopolies We object!

Subjects: International relations--Canada--1910-1920
International relations--United States--1910-1920
Monopolies--1910-1920
Special interests--1910-1920
Swine--1910-1920
Taft, William H.--(William Howard),--1857-1930
Tariffs--1910-1920
Uncle Sam (Symbolic character)--1910-1920
Weddings--1910-1920

Original Media: Photomechanical print

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