Political Cartoon

The main visual elements of this political cartoon is the large man wearing a sash across his chest saying capitalism and the scrawny boy wearing a tag saying child labor. In the background there are large sacks of money with labels that say profits from child labor. I believe the main issue of the piece is capitalism and how it is using child labor for production. I think the cartoonist’s opinion on the piece is that it is disgraceful that children are being used to produce more goods just so people can become wealthier. I think the cartoonist tries to displace this by having the large man who represents capitalism who seems slightly out of control shaking out every last penny from the boy as if he is nothing better than dirt. Also with the echo of the bags of money I think he is trying to say we already have plenty do we need more. I think to make this more effective he could have had the large man beating the boy with a large grin on his face or something that represents the issue more blatantly.