A question of duty' President Theodore Roosevelt standing next to Uncle Sam who is sitting on a stool in a "U.S. Custom House", Roosevelt has his left hand on Sam's right arm and he is gesturing to the left, toward a customs official who is inspecting the bags of a Filipino man just inside a door labelled "Philippines" and "Prohibitive Tariff", it is locked and barred by "Seventy-Five per cent of Dingley Rates", the customs official is searching for "Philippine Products" on which there are high rates due to the "Dingley" Tariff. In the background, a woman exits through a door labelled "Cuba" and "Reciprocity" and a man exits through a door labelled "Porto Rico" and "Free Trade".