The four Rips. Or, twenty years behind the age

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The four Rips; or, twenty years behind the age. Illustration shows Uncle Sam seated at a table in front of "Uncle Sam's Inter-State Market" with a businessman labeled "Northern Capital" on the right and an agricultural producer labeled "Southern Goods – Cotton, Sugar, Tobacco, Whiskey" on the left. Standing before the table are James G Blaine labeled "Bloody Shirt", John Sherman, Whitelaw Reid, and Joseph B Foraker, who all have long flowing hair and beards like Rip Van Winkle; Blaine is leaning on a rifle labeled "Shot Gun". Two young African American men are sitting on a bale of cotton and a keg of "Tobacco" in the lower right corner and in the middle ground African Americans are harvesting cotton. In the background, along the shores of a harbor, is a prosperous city. Date 1885 September 16.

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