--- title: '"Requirements for Trade Expansion / Requisitos para el desarrollo comercial" (Cuban-American Reciprocity Bureau, 1903)' url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/requirements-for-trade-expansion-cuban-american-reciprocity-bureau-1903/ description: A bilingual cartoon, in English and Spanish, shows Theodore Roosevelt stretching a spear marked 'Art. Tagged by technique, with source and rights. section: Collection --- 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. "Requirements for Trade Expansion / Requisitos para el desarrollo [!["Requirements for Trade Expansion / Requisitos para, 1903 US cartoon: A bilingual cartoon, in English and Spanish, shows](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/requirements-for-trade-expansion-cuban-american-reciprocity-bureau-1903.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/requirements-for-trade-expansion-cuban-american-reciprocity-bureau-1903.jpg) # "Requirements for Trade Expansion / Requisitos para el desarrollo comercial" (Cuban-American Reciprocity Bureau, 1903) A bilingual cartoon, in English and Spanish, shows Theodore Roosevelt stretching a spear marked 'Art. VIII' across the Atlantic toward England, Germany and France while Tasker Bliss holds out a ribbon marked 'Art. IV' to Cuban President Tomas Estrada Palma. The tell: the treaty's articles are drawn as weapons and gifts, and the benefit to each party is shown only from the lobby's side. A bilingual cartoon in English and Spanish, dated 1903 and issued by the Cuban-American Reciprocity Bureau in Washington, D.C., for a mixed audience. Theodore Roosevelt stretches a spear marked "Art. VIII" across the Atlantic toward England, Germany and France, while Tasker Bliss holds out a ribbon marked "Art. IV" to Cuban President Tomas Estrada Palma. It argues for support of the treaty. Card stacking shows in the articles drawn as weapons and gifts, with the benefit to each party shown only from the bureau's side. ## Propaganda techniques used in this cartoon [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) ## Full record Region, Country, Medium, Issuer type, Regime, Leader, Audience, Purpose, Themes, Event, Source, Rights [← "La Constitución ha muerto" protest at El Hijo del Ahuizote (1903)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/hijo-del-ahuizote-constitucion-ha-muerto-1903/) [蘇報 Subao, daily, front page (Shanghai, 18 June 1903) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/subao-he-manzhouren-1903/) ## More propaganda examples that use the same techniques - [Fragments of the Abydos king list from Ramesses II's temple, in the British Museum: rows of royal cartouches](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/abydos-king-list-ramesses-ii-temple-british-museum/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer) - [Behistun (Bisotun) rock relief and trilingual inscription of Darius I: the king, two attendants and the bound rebel leaders beneath the winged figure of Ahuramazda](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/behistun-relief-darius-and-rebels-521bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Name-calling, Testimonial). Content note: Shows bound captives before the king, and the inscription records the mutilation and public execution of rebel leaders, as the king's own account. - [Tomb of Darius I at Naqsh-e Rustam: the king in relief beside his inscription DNa, c. 490 BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dna-inscription-darius-i-naqsh-e-rustam-490bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Testimonial, Card stacking) - [Line drawing of the Great Kadesh battle relief on the walls of the Ramesseum, from Breasted's History of Egypt](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kadesh-relief-ramesseum-breasted-drawing-1275bce/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer). Content note: A drawing of an Egyptian royal battle relief showing Hittite soldiers and horses killed and drowned, as the king's monument presented the battle; it is a one-sided image made by the winning side's own account. - [Persepolis, Apadana staircase relief: a figure with an animal from a procession of delegations, early fifth century BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/persepolis-apadana-delegate-relief-500bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Manufactured consensus) - [Alabaster relief, Assyrian troops storming a citadel, from Nineveh (reign of Sennacherib)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/relief-sennacherib-storming-citadel-nineveh-704bce/) (Neo Assyrian Empire · 0000 · Card stacking). Content note: An Assyrian palace relief of troops storming a fortified city, with a file of figures below; Assyrian royal reliefs and texts record killing, mutilation and deportation, shown as carved, with the historical context and scholarly dispute on the regime page. - [Colour lithograph of the Latin text of the Res Gestae Divi Augusti on the wall of the temple of Roma and Augustus at Ancyra, with the heading in large letters (Perrot, Guillaume and Delbet, 1872)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/lithograph-res-gestae-ancyra-heading-0014/) (Roman Empire · 0014 · Card stacking, Glittering generalities) - [Silver denarius of Vespasian, reverse IVDAEA with a trophy of arms and a seated mourning woman](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/denarius-vespasian-judaea-capta-0070/) (Roman Empire · 0070 · Card stacking). Content note: A Roman victory coin showing a mourning female figure as the personification of the conquered province of Judaea after the Roman suppression of the Jewish revolt; shown as struck, with the historical context on the regime page.