Noxious Growths in Liberty's Grounds (1885)
Beware of "Total Abstinence Fanatics, Monopolists, Socialists, Nihilists, Dynamiters, Communists, Anarchists, Demagogs, Bribery and Corruption"
Uncle Sam - Hello, Puck, are you “up in a tree?”
Puck: No, but you will be if you don’t clear this stuff out pretty soon!
Illustration shows Uncle Sam and a female figure identified as Liberty strolling through a park among trees labeled "Equal Rights, Free Press, Free Schools, Free Speech, Free Ballot, Constitution, [and] Religious Liberty."
Around the bases of the trees are many mushrooms labeled "Total Abstinence Fanatics, Monopolists, Socialists, Nihilists, Dynamiters, Communists, Anarchists, Demagogs, Bribery, and Corruption", and a vine labeled "Protection" is beginning to strangle a tree labeled "Unrestricted Commerce".
Puck, sitting on a tree branch, tells Uncle Sam that he needs to clear out the fungus before it destroys "Liberty's" park. Some of the mushrooms have faces that might be identified.
Title: Noxious growths in liberty's grounds / J. Keppler.
Creator(s): Keppler, Joseph Ferdinand, 1838-1894, artist
Date Created/Published: N.Y. : Published by Keppler & Schwarzmann, 1885 February 25.
Medium: 1 print : chromolithograph.
Library of Congress: LC-DIG-ppmsca-28279