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Attacks on the Trusts

Insanity_of_Greed_2-6-97.jpg (43206 bytes)

Scanned from The Ram's Horn, February 6, 1897

In this cartoon from The Ram's Horn, Frank Beard expresses a religious view of the amazing of great wealth.   Greed, he suggested, led to ruin for the avaricious person.

Businessman_in_league_with_the_devil_6-20-96.jpg (25574 bytes) 

Scanned from The Ram's Horn, June 20, 1896

Again, from Beard's viewpoint, businessmen were too often in league with evil.

Americans also worried about the growth of a "plutocracy."

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