The American Family: Under a High Tariff

The American Family: Under a High Tariff
The American Family: Under a High Tariff

The American Family: Under a High Tariff

Date1911
Artist (American illustrator, 1875–1962)
Illustration CitationPuck, May 17, 1911
MediumCommercial relief process with hand-coloring
Dimensionscomposition: 11 × 8 3/8 in. (27.9 × 21.3 cm)
sheet: 13 1/4 × 21 1/16 in. (33.7 × 53.5 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1978
Object number1978-310
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPRINT
Label TextFor one half of this Puck centerfold, Gordon Grant presents a couple and their child as the parents struggle to pay their bills in the economic downturn resulting from recent tariffs on some imported goods. The father's expression and gesture convey the emotional duress of their plight to his concerned wife. The subject was in the news, as President William Howard Taft favored revising the tariffs downward, while congressional factions disagreed.

In the other half of the centerfold, Louis Glackens presents a happy, well-fed family and their servant, enjoying the results of a low-tariff American trade policy.
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