9. Bark Up My Lively Pups

Source:  Southern Mercury (Dallas, TX), May 21, 1896

Mainstream party politicians were seen as only a manifestation of what was wrong by many Populists.  Financiers, bankers, and the "Money Power" were the root cause of the people's distress.  In this cartoon, the Wall Street representative of the "Gold Syndicate" demonstrates the economic elite's control over the mainstream politicians, who appear eager to do Wall Street 's bidding in return for political preferment.

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