Question 1: What is the general message this cartoon is trying to convey to the reader?
Question 2: Specifically, in terms of the time period, what is a name for Standard Oil (and other companies like it)?
Question 3: Explain how this cartoon reflects "Progressive idealism"?
Question 4: Explain how this might tell the relationship between American government and big business, at the time. Where, exactly, does this leave the industrial workers/labor force