A double hold-up / Kep. - Political cartoon, public domain image

Illustration shows a man labeled "Producer" laden with farm produce stopped on one side and a man labeled "Consumer" stopped on the other, in between them is a masked man labeled "Food Speculator" who is pointing handguns labeled "Cold Storage" at both. They have been ambushed on the "Road of Supply and Demand" and the middle-man is now going to profit from both the producer and the consumer.

Caption: Good guns in bad hands.
Illus. in: Puck, v. 66, no. 1701 (1909 October 6), centerfold.
Copyright 1909 by Keppler & Schwarzmann.