In your blog please analyze the above cartoon which was originally published in the New York Times on June 10, 1911.
As part of your analysis please address the following:
What are the main visual elements?
What issue is this political cartoon about?
What is the cartoonist’s opinion on this issue?
What evidence in the cartoon leads you to believe that the author feels this way?
What other techniques could the cartoonist have used to make this cartoon more persuasive?
The main visual elements of this cartoon would have to be the big man with the ribbon that says "capitalism", the man he is holding labeled "labor" and the bags of money below that say "profits from child labor". Obviously, this cartoon is about Capitalism, and how unfair it is. The big man seems to be shaking money out of the laborer, and then has bags and bags of money from child labor. The cartoonist doesn't seem to like the idea of capitalism, and makes it seem like the only people who benefit it are the owners of companies, not the workers. I think he also finds the factory owners greedy. I think this because of how he makes the man shaking the laborer so much larger, and how the man is shaking the laborer's money on the bags and bags of money he already has. image from:http://depts.washington.edu/labhist/laborpress/images/Socialist Voice

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