Nursing our infant industries
1883
Friedrich Graetz’s 1883 political cartoon hilariously mocks the concept of protecting American businesses through high tariffs. In this bustling scene, powerful industrialists and politicians are dressed as fussy, overbearing nannies, coddling their 'infant industries'—represented as babies and odd contraptions labeled 'Salt,' 'Iron,' and 'American Swine.' Meanwhile, Uncle Sam and Columbia watch the chaotic nursery from a porch in the background. Published in the famous satirical magazine Puck, the piece brilliantly captures the absurdity of government intervention propping up struggling economic sectors.
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- chromolithograph
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