"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
- Date
- 1903
- Period
- Pre-1914
- Made by
- Cuban-American Reciprocity Bureau, Washington, D.C.
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
- NGO
- Regime
- Theodore Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Theodore Roosevelt
- Audience
- Mixed
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- Economy and finance, Empire and colonialism
- Event
- US Occupation of Cuba
- 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 1903, before 1931); LoC: no known restrictions on publication
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LCCN 2013651811. "Requirements for Trade Expansion / Requisitos para el desarrollo comercial" (Cuban-American Reciprocity Bureau, 1903)
