#woodrow wilson

[todaysdocument]

Tax Him

Record Group 46: Records of the U.S. SenateSeries: Berryman Political Cartoon Collection

This illustration entitled, "Tax Him", by cartoonist Clifford Berryman, which appeared in the Washington Evening Star on September 13, 1914, shows special interest groups pointing at one another as targets for additional tax revenue as the President and Congress consider alternative sources of revenue for the war plan.

President Woodrow Wilson, a congressman (perhaps Speaker of the House Champ Clark), and Uncle Sam stand back to back.  They’re surrounded by a circle of anthropomorphized special interest groups with arms and legs: a barrel of beer, playing cards, motion pictures, a box labeled income, whiskey, freight, drugs, and tobacco.  The dome of the Capitol building is in the background.

[thehopefulquotes]

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

Woodrow Wilson

[quotefeeling]

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

Woodrow Wilson

[perfectfeelings]

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

Woodrow Wilson

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The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

Woodrow Wilson

[pranklinfierce]

Since like 11* people on Instagram either commented or SU'd when I posted this in a story, this image proved compelling enough to share elsewhere.

This is a real video that you can watch here

I immediately had too many thoughts to keep to myself so these are my notes:

*it used to say 9 but then more people SU'd

[alwaysbewoke]

woodrow wilson was a racist cunt.

[probablyasocialecologist]

At the end of World War I, the Japanese delegation had come to the Versailles Peace Conference of 1919 to secure a racial equality clause in the charter for the new League of Nations. Despite his promises of freedom and plans for a postwar league to promote world peace, American president Woodrow Wilson was a Southern segregationist who had purged the US civil service of Blacks and hosted a White House screening of Birth of a Nation, thereby endorsing the film’s celebration of the Ku Klux Klan and its virulently racist depictions of African Americans. British officials had similar concerns that any declaration of human equality would create “extremely serious problems” for their colonial empire. When the Japanese motion nonetheless won majority support at the conference, Wilson used his position as chair of the deliberations to arbitrarily dismiss it, thereby preserving the racial hierarchy of the imperial age. While the conference liberated white Europeans from Austrian and Russian imperial rule, the League sanctioned continued colonial dominion over the peoples of Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. To preserve imperial rule, the League created a mandate system which instituted a form of suspended sovereignty first advanced in the sixteenth century by the Spanish jurist Francisco de Vitoria. In effect, President Wilson’s arbitrary rejection of racial equality crippled the moral leadership of the League of Nations at birth, just as his inept failure to win congressional approval for US participation fatally weakened its international influence.

Alfred W. McCoy, To Govern the Globe: World Orders and Catastrophic Change

[thoughtkick]

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

Woodrow Wilson

[presidentialconfessions]

my headcanon for years has been that Wilson was non binary but idk why. But just look at that man that's a they/themmer

[entheognosis]

Liberty has never come from government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.

Woodrow Wilson

[todaysdocument]

Telegram from M. Cravath Simpson to President Woodrow Wilson Urging a Federal Lynching Law

Record Group 60: General Records of the Department of JusticeSeries: Straight Numerical FilesFile Unit: 158260

WESTERN UNION TELEGRAM

A50B 50 7 EXTRA NL

FY CAMBRIDGE MASS 11

PRESIDENT WOODROW WILSON

WHITEHOUSE WASHINGTON DC

AT CLOSE OF WORLD DEMOCRACY WAR STARTED WITH NEWS LYNCHING SHEFFIELD ALABAMA DISGRACES UNITEDSTATES BEFORE WORLD ARE ALL COUNTRIED TO BE MADE SAFE FOR DEMOCRACY EXCEPT OURS ASK YOU IN NAME OF GOD AND HUMANITY RECOMMEND CONGRESS MAKE LAW MAKING LYNCHING FEDERAL CRIME

M CRAVATH SIMPSON CHAIRMAN SUPPRESSION LYNCHING NORTHEASTERN FEDERATION WOMENS CLUBS.

[stay-close]

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

Woodrow Wilson

[msachillelaurosfunnels]

I drew the US Presidents ⁉️⁉️

Constructive criticism is not allowed ⁉️⁉️(Because I only draw for fun lol, not mad or anything tho)

I couldn't tag anymore presidents 💔💔

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The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

Woodrow Wilson

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