"The War with Japan" (Puck cover, 23 October 1907)
Cover with a Theodore Roosevelt figure in Japanese army uniform under a rising-sun flag, charging two rifle-carrying newspapers labelled Sun and World that crouch behind "Park Row Earthworks". The caption quotes Taft: "The war talk is due entirely to newspapers"; the quotation is the authority offered, and the press is made the single cause.
- Date
- October 23, 1907
- Period
- Pre-1914
- Made by
- Puck magazine (Keppler & Schwarzmann)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Cartoon
- Issuer type
- Media
- Leader
- Theodore Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Reassure
- Techniques
- TestimonialScapegoating
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (published in the U.S. in 1907; LOC: no known restrictions on publication)
"The war with Japan", Puck v. 62 no. 1599, 23 October 1907, cover (Keppler & Schwarzmann); LC-DIG-ppmsca-26212
Text on the object
VOL. LXII. No. 1599. PUCK BUILDING, New York, October 23d, 1907. PRICE TEN CENTS. "What Fools these Mortals be!" Puck Copyright, 1907, by Keppler & Schwarzmann. Entered at N. Y. P. O. as Second-class Mail Matter. [mound] PARK ROW EARTHWORKS [newspaper figures] Sun · [second paper, label not legible at this size] [signature, lower left] [illegible] THE WAR WITH JAPAN. "The war talk is due entirely to newspapers, which seek to increase their sales, and which for political reasons attack the Government."—Taft at Tokio. [Library of Congress copyright stamp, upper left]
Read from the 1024 px Library of Congress service image. The second newspaper's label (catalogued by the Library of Congress as World) and the artist's signature are too small to read.
