Arms and the men. Illustration shows President Theodore Roosevelt standing on one side of a scaffold, holding a large sculpted arm with a huge stick labeled The Big Stick for placement on a large sculpture of a female figure labeled Inter-State Commerce Laws; on the other side of the scaffold is a man labeled The Rail Road directing Nelson W. Aldrich, Stephen B. Elkins and Joseph B. Foraker to use instead a much smaller arm labeled Delay and Fines. Date 1906 April 25. Arms and the men. Illustration shows President Theodore Roosevelt standing on one side of a scaffold, holding a large sculpted arm with a huge stick labeled The Big Stick for placement on a large sculpture of a female figure labeled Inter-State Commerce Laws; on the other side of the scaffold is a man labeled The Rail Road directing Nelson W. Aldrich, Stephen B. Elkins and Joseph B. Foraker to use instead a much smaller arm labeled Delay and Fines. Date 1906 April 25.