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Cartoon showing the devil tempting a working man with the promises of economist Henry George

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English: Cartoon drawn during Henry George's unsuccessful 1886 campaign for Mayor of New York. It depicts the temptation of Henry George's promises to a working man. Mephistopheles, wearing a hat of "anarchism," points the man away from his workbench and toward the angelic figure of Henry George and his "horn of promises." Spilling from the horn are "free land," "no taxes," "free beer," "no work," and "free everything except anarchist assessments," among others. Using a quill of "journalistic agitation," the devil pens a "pledge to anarchy — soul and body" from the man's blood. George is standing on top of the head Jay Gould, the railroad magnate. The cartoon is captioned "The Mephistopheles of Today — Honest Labor's Temptation."
Date
Source Keppler, Joseph (October 20, 1886). "The Mephistopheles of Today — Honest Labor's Temptation". Puck 20: 121-122. New York: Keppler & Schwarzmann.
Author
Joseph Keppler  (1838–1894)  wikidata:Q6283062 s:en:Author:Joseph Ferdinand Keppler q:cs:Joseph Ferdinand Keppler
 
Joseph Keppler
Alternative names
Joseph Keppler Sr.; Joseph Ferdinand Keppler
Description American cartoonist and caricaturist
father of Udo Keppler, who was known as Joseph Keppler (Jr.) after 1894
Date of birth/death 1 February 1838 Edit this at Wikidata 19 February 1894 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Vienna Edit this at Wikidata New York City Edit this at Wikidata
Work period 1900 Edit this at Wikidata–1910 Edit this at Wikidata
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Austria, Italy, United States
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creator QS:P170,Q6283062

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