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, 1889 issue of Puck magazine.

Click on the above & below pictures, to view the cartoons in detail, and read their captions.

Below, from the January 1931 issue of Review of Reviews, “Just About That Much Sense To It”, by Jay Norwood “Ding” Darling, poking fun at the solution to the First Great Depression being pushed by business interests & the Republican Party — cutting people’s wages.

Above & below, more Wall Street cartoons, from the November 1912 issue of Cartoons Magazine.

Above, in “Shopping in the Land of Liberty”, Canadian artist Arthur G. Racey depicts “Steely the Trust” telling Uncle Sam where to buy. Below, artist Jack Wilson depicts the result of “Elastic Building Laws”.

Above, W.A. Ireland picks up on a suggestion from Woodrow Wilson, as excuse to basically rehash the same cartoon, this time inserting Teddy Roosevelt into it, the point of both being that for all their resistance, corporations actually did better under regulation that forced them to compete, when capitalism’s unregulated tendency is to consolidate resources under fewer players, then jack up the price, which results in less wealth for everyone (but with the rich doing so much better than everyone else, comparison wise). Anyway, click here to see Billy Ireland‘s earlier version of this same cartoon.

Below, a few more examples, from Harry J. Westerman, Charles MaCauley, and others.

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.

Doug Wheeler

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