One of the Latest Hold-Ups: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons, Part 68
Above, One of the Latest Hold-Ups, from a scrapbook of Chicago area cartoons (mostly Chicago Tribune), gathered in the first half of 1897.
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Depicted is Uncle Sam attempting to bring 1897 America back to “Prosperityville” (and out of one of numerous pre-Great Depressions, this one having begun with the Panic of 1893). Prosperity, however, is shown being held up by a variety of corporate “trusts” (i.e., monopolies) hijacking Uncle Sam and his citizen passengers, at gun point. Stopping progress, are shown “Standard Oil Trust”, “Sugar Trust”, “Tobacco Trust”, and, (just behind Uncle Sam, entering the street car from its other side — you have to click on the picture to see these details), “Steel Trust”.
Below, a close-up detail from artist Bernhard Gillam‘s Puck centerspread cartoon The Modern Prometheus, published February 22, 1882, showing monopolists tearing away a a bound Uncle Sam’s life. This detail comes from a prior Super-I.T.C.H. posting of a year-and-a-half ago.
Click on the below picture to, to be taken to a view of the full cartoon, plus the article describing it.
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To find prior episodes of this series,click on Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons. And, to find earlier posts concerning financial reforms in general, click here.
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— Doug
