ld1907june29

Caption: Harriman -- "Gee That Startled Me!"

Source/Date: Literary Digest, June 29, 1907

Ultimate Source(if different): Detroit Journal

Creator: Thomas May

Remarks: The ICC report on Harriman and numerous articles in the press had suggested he was on the way to dominating the entire railroad network. Cartoons like this one, portraying Harriman as a little man, scared of Roosevelt, re-asserted the primacy of the political over the economic sphere.

Keywords: Roosevelt, Theodore