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title: '"Giddap!" (Puck back cover, 14 March 1914)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/giddap-suffrage-hikers-puck-1914/
description: Five young women with a 'Votes for Women' banner walk down a country road as an elderly farmer on a wagon offers them a lift.
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[!["Giddap!", 1914 US cartoon: Five young women with a 'Votes for Women' banner walk down a country road as an elderly farmer](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/giddap-suffrage-hikers-puck-1914.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/giddap-suffrage-hikers-puck-1914.jpg)

# "Giddap!" (Puck back cover, 14 March 1914)

Five young women with a 'Votes for Women' banner walk down a country road as an elderly farmer on a wagon offers them a lift; the 'general' answers that he can give one 'by voting for the cause'. The tell: an ordinary farmer is shown as the person to persuade, and the cause arrives on foot as one of his neighbours.

Puck Publishing Corporation ran this back cover on 14 March 1914. Five young women with a 'Votes for Women' banner walk down a country road as an elderly farmer on a wagon offers them a lift, and their 'general' answers that he can give one 'by voting for the cause'. It asks readers to support the cause. Plain folks is the tagged technique: an ordinary farmer is shown as the person to persuade, and the cause arrives on foot as one of his neighbours.

## Propaganda techniques used in this cartoon

[Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/)

## Full record

Region, Country, Medium, Issuer type, Regime, Leader, Audience, Purpose, Themes, Event, Source, Rights

[← Unser Kaiser an sein Volk (Our Emperor to His People)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/unser-kaiser-an-sein-volk-1914/) ["Votes for Mothers!" (The Suffragist, cover, 13 June 1914) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/votes-for-mothers-suffragist-1914/)

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