The Democrats especially loved to attack the trusts, as this May 12, 1909
cartoon from Puck demonstrates. Here the trusts, using the mallet of the tariff,
hit the consumer to drive up profits. This cartoon held an obvious appeal at a time
when prices in general were rising.
Although the Democratic party included important business elements in its
coalition, in general the businessmen who were Democrats were in the South and West,
regions that were generally distrustful of the large corporations headquartered in New
York, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, and elsewhere.
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