The Political Baxter Street, 1888
- Containers:
- Box 1, Folder 29
- Scope and content:
bound issue from August 8, 1888; Vol XXIII, no. 596. Lithographs address "free whiskey" Republicans and war tariffs; Benjamin Harrison leading the Republican Party; monopolists like Carnegie and the working man; reduced wages and profits; taxes. Lithographs include "The Political Baxter Street" (title page; shows Benjamin Harrison and his Vice President, Levi P. Morton, escorting a "Workingman" along Baxter Street. Harrison is wearing an oversized top hat and gesturing to a "War Tariff Suit" located in the "Benjamin & Levi National Clothing House." Behind them, a "Temperance Morality" shop is open, selling "Free Whiskey" to two lounging men); "The Owner of the Republican Party" (shows an oversized Andrew Carnegie with a miniature Benjamin Harrison and Levi Morton crawling out of his pants pockets. Harrison is wearing an oversized "Grandpa's Hat." Carnegie's coat tails are being carried by miniature Republican members of Congress, all wearing jester's hats); "Puck Suggests a Suitable Tableau for the Procession in Honor of the Uncrowned King of the G.O.P" (shows a fair being held at "Carnegie Castle." A mobile "workingman cabin" is being pulled around the grounds by a dog labeled "privation." Carnegie is seen riding in on a horse, bags of profits and "proceeds of 35% tax on iron" are being carried on the horse's back. In the background, a group of protestors holding signs ["Where do we come in?," "Locked out," "Starvation wages"] are seen holding signs yelling at the large castle)
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