Post by bkirchgessner on Oct 2, 2013 2:51:33 GMT
This political cartoon explains Boss tweed running New York strictly for business purposes. All the men are supports of Tweeds' ideas and the idea of the political machine. All the men standing in the circle have a different company written on the back of their jacket, possibly representing where they work or just to show they are somehow associated with that specific company. When the question was asked "Who stole the peoples money?" each member of the circle pointed to their right, eventually the circle ends at Boss Tweed. In the end Tweed was convicted for stealing millions of dollars from New York taxpayers through political corruption.
The illustrator of this political cartoon is trying to portray that Boss Tweed was a thief stealing millions of dollars right from the government, even when people thought he was the greatest thing and was doing the lords work by trying to help unsettled immigrants.
The illustrator of this political cartoon is trying to portray that Boss Tweed was a thief stealing millions of dollars right from the government, even when people thought he was the greatest thing and was doing the lords work by trying to help unsettled immigrants.