Now for a round-up
Uncle Sam walks away from the Capitol, where a banner reads 'Sedition law passed', dragging a bundle of small figures labelled 'Spy', 'Traitor', 'IWW', 'Germ[an] money' and 'Sinn Fein'. The union is filed in the same bundle as spies and traitors, so the wartime stigma of those labels transfers to it, and the national symbol and the Capitol lend the round-up the authority of the state.
Propaganda techniques used in this cartoon
- Date
- May 9, 1918
- Period
- First World War
- Made by
- W. A. Rogers, New York Herald
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
- Demonize
- Themes
- Labor, Security and surveillance, War and the military
- Event
- World War I
- Regime
- Wilson administration
- Leader
- Woodrow Wilson
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Library of Congress, retrieved September 27, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (published 1918 in the New York Herald, before 1931; LoC: No known restrictions on publication)
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Text on the object
Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked
NOW FOR A ROUND UP. SEDITION LAW PASSED SPY TRAITOR SINN FEIN [illegible — small tag partly covered by Uncle Sam's hand] I.W.W. W.A. Rogers. [illegible — handwritten production notes]
The tag partly hidden by Uncle Sam's gripping hand is illegible in this scan; this entry's own caption (drawing on the Library of Congress catalog description) reads it as 'Germ[an] money.' Small handwritten notes beside the artist's signature in the lower right (apparently instructions to the engraver, e.g. column width) are too faint and cursive to transcribe reliably.
