Cuban Gordian-Knot 1902. Cartoon shows Theodore Roosevelt and Republican House Majority Leader Sereno Payne tightening a knot in a cord "Tariff Law 1897 paragraph 209 16 Dutch" around the waist of a man "Cuba" holding a "cane knife." On the right, the cord is cut into money by the head of the American Sugar Refining Company, Henry O Havemeyer. The money falls into bags labelled "Sugar Trust Profits".
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