Clifford Berryman cartoon on Congress, the tariff and Prohibition enforcement (6 January 1930)
An untitled Berryman drawing of 6 January 1930: Congress tends a battered "Tariff" while a sweating figure labelled "Prohibition Enforcement?" waits its turn.
- Date
- 1930-01-06
- Kind
- photograph
- Source
- National Archives Catalog, Records of the U.S. Senate (RG 46), Berryman Political Cartoon Collection
- Retrieved
- 2026-10-12
- NAID
- 6012006
- Rights
- A drawing by Clifford K. Berryman in the Records of the U.S. Senate (Record Group 46), series "Berryman Political Cartoon Collection" (NAID 306080), whose use note reads: "Some records in this series may be subject to copyright restrictions. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine the copyright holder and arrange for permission to reproduce the items, if necessary." The item record reads "Use Restriction: Unrestricted." Berryman was a newspaper cartoonist, not a federal employee, so 17 U.S.C. § 105 is not the basis. The catalog dates the drawing 6 January 1930. A work published in the United States in 1930 or earlier is in the public domain there, and an unpublished work by an author who died in 1949, as Berryman did, passed out of copyright at the end of 2019; on either footing, and on the item-level "Unrestricted" mark, a copy is stored here.
The catalog lists this drawing as untitled, local identifier E-019, dated 6 January 1930. A bespectacled man with “CONGRESS” on his shirt says, “NOW I’LL HAVE TO LET YOU REST WHILE I PUT SOME PEP INTO THIS OLD BIRD.” Beside him a sweating figure shaped like a document is labelled “PROHIBITION ENFORCEMENT ?”, and a slumped, bandaged figure at the right is labelled “TARIFF ?”.
The National Archives note says prohibition enforcement and tariff rates were two major issues for President Hoover and Congress, and that “a decade after prohibition began, the tide of public opinion was swinging toward repeal.” That assessment is the note’s.
The drawing is an editorial comment and is filed for what it shows.
