Cartoon Analysis

Around the IR many people, often muckrakers, expressed their opinions through expository articles and political cartoons. The cartoon displayed here, on the right is one of these attempts. The picture describes a gluttonous man who represents capitalism, robbing the skinny immigrant, who represents labor, of his money. The idea that the author attempted to portray was that the capitalistic system robbed immigrants and workers of their money. Capitalism is portrayed as an obiese man becuase the higher classmen that controlled the capitalism system were often gluttonous, and indulged in everything they could. Meanwhile, labor is portrayed as a skinny imigrant, becuase usually immigrants who The money bags around the men are filled with the money derived from child labor. The little caption on the bottom says, "Fi Fi Fo Fam, I smell the blood of the working man. Be he swift or be he slow, I'll grind his bones and get his dough." In this case dough is a slang term for money. This is my evidence that my analysis of the cartoon coincides with those of the author. Overall, this cartoon attempts to point out how the working class was thouroughly exploited by the capitalistic system.