F.D.A.: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons # 88 / Cartoons Magazine Centennial, April 1912, Part 18
The Food & Drug Administration is amongst several government agencies which extremists within the G.O.P. are calling to be eliminated. On March 15th, 1912, Dr. Harvey Washington Wiley — who both headed & helped create the agency — resigned in the face of continuing opposition orchestrated by moneyed interests who would have preferred to continue the kinds of dangerous food adulteration we see frequently occuring today in Communist China.
Click on the above picture, to view the cartoons in detail, and read their captions.
The cartoons above all refer to Wiley’s resignation, and his honorable service within a corrupted administration in the pocket of monopolists. Rollin Kirby‘s cartoon, above, refers to attacks on Wiley by newspaper editors, while Robert Minor, Jr.‘s cartoon depicts him as Lot, fleeing the Taft’s city of sin.
Click here to find Wiley’s prior appearance in Cartoons Magazine.
— Doug
