"The Genii of Intolerance: A Dangerous Ally for the Cause of Women Suffrage" (Puck, 25 September 1915)
A giant labelled 'Prohibition' rises from a bottle marked with injustice, intolerance and hypocrisy and tears at a banner reading 'Votes for Women' while a woman flees. The tell: the danger is drawn as a looming monster, with the label on the bottle as the argument.
A cartoon from Puck, published by the Puck Publishing Corporation in New York on 25 September 1915. A giant labelled 'Prohibition' rises from a bottle marked with injustice, intolerance and hypocrisy and tears at a banner reading 'Votes for Women' while a woman flees. The title calls the temperance movement a dangerous ally for the suffrage cause, and that is the cartoon's position. Fear appeal is tagged because the danger is staged as a looming monster, with the labels on the bottle serving as the argument.
Propaganda techniques used in this cartoon
- Date
- September 25, 1915
- Period
- First World War
- Made by
- Puck Publishing Corporation, New York
Full record
Region, Country, Medium, Issuer type, Regime, Leader, Audience, Purpose, Themes, Event, Source, Rights
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Cartoon
- Issuer type
- Media
- Regime
- Wilson Administration
- Leader
- Woodrow Wilson
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Themes
- Gender and suffrage, Elections and party politics
- Event
- US Woman Suffrage Campaign
- Regime
- Wilson administration
- Leader
- Woodrow Wilson
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, retrieved October 10, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (published 1915, before 1931); LoC: no known restrictions on publication
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LCCN 98502832. "The Genii of Intolerance: A Dangerous Ally for the Cause of Women Suffrage" (Puck, 25 September 1915)
