1. Get Off . . . 

Source:  American Nonconformist (Winfield, KS), July 16, 1891

In this illustration, the "people" are represented as Jonathan Swift's fictional character Gulliver and various interests (Wall Street, Democratic and Republican parties, and monopoly) appear as Lilliputians.  Many Populist cartoons showed quite a bit of detail.  The label to the palette on which Gulliver is tied, for instance, reads "National Democratic-Republican Platform."  The shields held by those following the Wall Street banner read "Gold Dollar."

There are a number of useful overviews of Populism:

Clanton, Gene. Populism: The Humane Preference in America. Boston: Twayne, 1991.

Goodwyn, Lawrence C. Democratic Promise: The Populist Moment in America. New York, Oxford U P, 1976.  Abridged as The Populist Moment: A Short History of the Agrarian Revolt in America. New York, Oxford U P, 1978.

Hicks, John D. The Populist Revolt: A History of the Farmers' Alliance and the People's Party. 473 p. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota Press, 1931.  Reissued: Lincoln, U of Nebraska P, 1961.  

Holmes, William F. American Populism. Problems in American Civilization Series. Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath & Co., 1994.

McMath, Robert C., Jr. American Populism: A Social History, 1877-1898. New York: Hill and Wang, 1992.

Miller, Worth Robert. "Farmers and Third-Party Politics in Late Nineteenth-Century America." In The Gilded Age: Essays on the Origins of Modern America. pp. 235-60. Edited by Charles W. Calhoun. Wilmington, Delaware: Scholarly Resources, Inc., 1996. 

Postel, Charles, The Populist Vision (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007)

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