"Wanted, a leader! - The labor-agitation orchestra on the go-as-you-please plan." Puck , circa 1886.
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"Wanted, a leader! - The labor-agitation orchestra on the go-as-you-please plan." Puck , circa 1886.
As one of the nation's most popular political idealists, Henry George was the subject of constant derision by the mainstream press, including this Puck cartoon in which George plays on his Bass-Less Theories, in a Benefit Concert for the Improvement of the Laborer's Condition that includes the Anarchist Press on trombone, Knights of Labor President Terence Powderly on harp, and the American Federation of Labor on cymbals.