Puck magazine was a largely nonpartisan showcase for American political cartoons from the 1870s through World War I. The magazine was founded in St. Louis, Missouri, as a German-language humor magazine; St. Louis had a large German immigrant population. The magazine became so popular for its humor that the editors put out an English-language edition in 1877 and eventually moved the magazine to New York City. Its popularity arose from the targets of its humor: Puck skewered local and national politicians, the Catholic Church, and especially the massively rich industrialists of the late nineteenth century, often referred to as “robber barons.” The cartoon displayed here is a standard example of Puck’s sharp criticism of the disparity between the wealth of the nation’s industrialists and the workers they exploited to obtain that wealth.