The Bosses of the Senate is a political cartoon by the American illustrator Joseph Keppler, published in Puck magazine on January 23, 1889. It depicts monopolists as obese figures with bodies made of money bags, towering over the senators of the United States Senate to portray corporate control of government during the Gilded Age. The cartoon is remembered as an early work of antitrust propaganda that contributed to the climate leading to the Sherman Antitrust Act, and remains a frequently reproduced image in textbooks and studies of the United States Congress. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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The Bosses of the Senate is an American propagandistic political cartoon by Joseph Keppler, published in the January 23, 1889, issue of Puck magazine.
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The Bosses of the Senate is an American propagandistic political cartoon by Joseph Keppler, published in the January 23, 1889, issue of Puck magazine.
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The Bosses of the Senate is an American propagandistic political cartoon by Joseph Keppler, published in the January 23, 1889, issue of Puck magazine.
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