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. 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.