The Wretched Poor…
…or, as Mitt Romney referred to them in his speech that keeps on giving, 47% of Americans. Following, is a handful of cartoons reflective of the Romney attitude towards non-wealthy American workers, retirees, and veterans, which he laid bare by the words he spoke when amongst his own (those who can spend $50,000 on lunch). [...]
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 [...]
Bryan vs. the Democratic Machine: 1912 Democratic National Convention, Part 2: Cartoons Magazine Centennial
< In 1912, the Democratic nomination was up for grabs going into the Convention, and Wall Street moneyed interests made a play at aligning with the Party Bosses in general — and the corrupt Tammany Hall in particular — at getting in their man (Champ Clark). They’d already succeeded in having their puppet — Taft [...]
Labor Day: Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1912, plus more Sacco & Vanzetti
Above, a page of Labor Day cartoons, from the October 1912 issue of Cartoons Magazine. From a time when children worked in factories, workers hurt on the job were disposable cogs thrown into the street, companies hired police & thugs to beat up and murder those who attempted to organize unions, weekends off and 8-hour [...]
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 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 [...]
Jay Gould’s Private Bowling Alley: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons #95
< Above, from the front cover of the March 29th, 1882 issue of Puck magazine, infamous monopolist & stock market manipulator, Jay Gould, using Wall Street as Jay Gould’s Private Bowling Alley. In this cartoon by Frederick Burr Opper, we see Gould using his bowling balls, labeled “Trickery”, “False Reports”, “Private Press”, and “General Unscrupulousness”, [...]
The Bulls and the Bears in Shock, 1831: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons #94
Two cartoons, most likely by artist John Doyle, both from issue 14, March 1st, 1831, of the monthly comic broadsheet, the Looking Glass. Above, in “The Bulls and Bears Alarmed”, stock traders — represented as Bulls and Bears — are shocked at the mere suggestion that stocks might be taxed. A government official — bowing [...]
