This picture is making a statement about the negative sides of Capitalism. This image shows a man (fat man) squeezing all the money out of a laborer. The issue this political cartoon is portraying is how the people who own the factories use the laborers to make a profit by making them do all the work and giving them minimum wages. That is the reason for making him fat, the wealthier he is the more food he can buy. The cartoonists’ idea of this issue is that the laborers are not getting the amount of money that they deserve and that the factory owners should be earning less. The reason for me saying that is because in this image the factory owner is the “bag guy” with lots of money that he did nothing to earn and the laborer is shown with no money when he was the one who worked for it. In order to make the picture more persuasive the artist could have made the laborer more distressed and prominent.
