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Summary: Illustration shows a police officer labeled “Graft Tariff” preventing a working class family from having a picnic on the grass while a group of men labeled “Beef Trust, Coal Trust, Steel Trust, Lumber Trust, [and] Clothing Trust”, with two servants, one labeled “A.P.T.L.”, are having a picnic on the lawn labeled “Prosperity”.
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Summary: Illustration shows a large man holding a cat-o’-nine-tails labeled “Schedules” and wearing a crown labeled “Monopoly” shaped like the dome of the U.S. Capitol building with the statue of freedom, sitting atop a U.S. Customs building in front of which is a large pile of money being deposited by disgruntled citizens; standing to the right is a large Statue of Liberty pointing to the streams of citizens and laughing.
Caption: “It is to laugh!”
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Summary: Illustration shows Uncle Sam standing behind a group of legislators and businessmen who are bowing before a large hog labeled “Greed” with its front feet in a trough labeled “Wall Street”.
Caption: Those who know the term but not its meaning may find enlightenment above.
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Summary: Illustration shows, on the left, a scene of counterfeiting money labeled “Low-down and Illegal”, and on the right, a scene on “Wall Street” showing capitalists with papers labeled “Watered Stock” and “Dividends”. Includes note: What is the difference morally between making and circulating valueless paper in the guise of money, and making and circulating valueless paper in the form of securities? Both kinds of counterfeits get real money in exchange for fake; only, one kind gets a few hundreds of dollars, perhaps, and then goes to jail, while the other gets millions, maybe, and says: “Don’t! You’ll destroy confidence,” to anybody who ventures to criticise.
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Summary: Illustration shows a large gloved hand labeled “Plutocracy” with a design showing the U.S. Capitol emerging from dark clouds to crush a group of citizens with its thumb; on the left, in the clouds of the past, a Union army marches into battle as Abraham Lincoln frees the slaves.
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Summary: Illustration shows a large gorilla-like monster with human head, clutching clusters of buildings labeled “Public Utilities, Competition, [and] Small Business” with his right arm and left leg, as he crushes a building labeled “Untainted Success, Initiative, Individualism, Independence, [and] Ambition” with his left hand, causing some citizens to flee while others plead for mercy. He casts a shadow over the U.S. Capitol, tilting in the background.
Caption: Puck is not an advocate of Socialism, but He finds some grim humor in Monopoly’s argument against it.
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Summary: Illustration shows Uncle Sam as a peacock displaying his tail feathers which are labeled “Surplus”. There are men on the right and the left with large scissors labeled “Shipping Subsidy, Rivers & Harbors, Nicaragua Canal, Army and Navy, [and] Appropriations” which they are using to trim Uncle Sam’s tail feathers.
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Summary: Illustration shows Uncle Sam standing next to a cannon labeled “Dept. of Justice” that is shooting at a floating target labeled, from the outer rim to bull’s-eye, “Scapegoats and Dummies, Appraisers, Inspectors, and Weighers, Trust Supt. and Managers, Corrupt Civil Service Officials, Sugar Trust Directors, [and] High Govt. Officers”. The target has two holes on the bottom, Uncle Sam is telling the shooter to “aim higher”.
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Summary: Illustration shows an old hag sitting on a large ticker tape machine, on Wall Street, spewing “Inside Information”, “False Financial News” and rumors that ensnare large groups of investors.
Caption: The witch of Wall Street.
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