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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