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Caricature cartoon of a large McKinley digging a canal across a map of the Americas, with ships and Uncle Sam nearby.

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A Thing Well Begun Is Half Done, Victor Gillam (1899), Cornell University Library. Via artnap.com

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A lithographic political cartoon by Victor Gillam, published in Judge in 1899, shows an oversized caricature of McKinley digging a canal across a map of the Americas. Cargo ships labeled American goods sail through the Pacific and Atlantic oceans while Uncle Sam hands him tools from the Capitol.

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