Military vs. Budget: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons #105
So hey people, today we start out with cartoons on some actual warships, just a few years prior to 1916! And guess what, they were arguing back then, on whether they had enough ships! And just out, Mitt Romney’s newest round of advertisements, takes his penchance for lying to a whole new level. He has [...]
Raising the Funds to Buy the Presidency: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons #104
Above, Raising the Funds to Buy the Presidency, by artist Joseph Keppler, Sr., depicting Republican fund raisers in the guise of medieval clergy selling indulgences (i.e., back before/during Martin Luther, the church would sell tickets to Heaven, in which people could be absolved for any sin, for enough money “donated” to the church). Implied in [...]
Paying Tribute: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons #103
Above, depicting rural and city workers handing over their wages and taxes in obeisance to the corporate monopolies, who rule via the sowrd of legislation, which they own/control. “History Repeats Itself. — The Robber Barons of the Middle Ages, and the Robber Barons of To-Day”, by Samuel Ehrhart, from the centerspread of the November 6th, [...]
Union Busting: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons #102
Above, by artist Homer Davenport, from back in the days when corporations hired thugs to beat up, & sometimes murder, striking workers (and often with the help of the government and the police), comes “Arbitration in a Strike” — Plate 17 in Davenport‘s collection, The Dollar or the Man?. Republicans have been especially on the [...]
Election Cash: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons #101: Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1912
The Supreme Court having thrown Campaign Reform laws back one hundred years or more, we take a look at the influence of corporate money on elections, one century past, via the the editorial cartoons found in the September 1912 issue of Cartoons Magazine. Above, the front cover, with inset cartoon by Harry J. Westerman. Click [...]
Forgive and Forget?: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons #100
On the topic of things that never change… An Apple for Teacher, by Clarence Daniel Batchelor. Originally published in 1933, in the New York City paper, Daily News. Its presentation here, is scanned from the pamphlet Contemporary Cartoons, given away at an exhibition by that title, of original editorial cartoon art at the Huntington Library, [...]
Regulation as Wall Street Pretends to See it: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons #99
The wealthy crying that any laws restricting their reckless financial gambling (i.e., what gave us both the First and current Second Great Depressions), and doing anything they want to the benefit of their personal selves when it works — and to the harm of everyone else when it doesn’t — is “Socialist Tyranny”, is hardly [...]
Why Not Let Them Have It All?: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons #98
Today, appropriate to this week’s Republican National Convention, with a born-into-riches millionaire Wall Streeter as the G.O.P. Presidential nominee, calling for still more tax breaks for most wealthy, paid for on the backs of everyone else, we have the Frederick Burr Opper cartoon, Let Them Have It All, and Be Done With It!. Appearing in [...]
The Dollar or the Man?, Part 11: The Ice Trust: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons #97
Title of the cartoon above: This is the way the trusts “visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction.” The posted sign in the background reads, “Doctors say children are dying for want of ice.” Once again we focus on the cartoons by Homer Davenport, found in his 1900 collection, The Dollar or the Man? [...]
The Rich get the Pickings: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons #96
The Bulls and the Bears, one of several cartoons found on the front page of the November 2nd, 1877 issue of the (New York) Daily Graphic. Shown here is Jay Gould, having the longest pitchfork (i.e., having the longest reach = being the richest), picking off the best stock bargains, while warning the other, smaller [...]
