Hands across the land / Keppler., Political Cartoon

Illustration shows two arms emerging from the clouds and reaching across the landscape in opposite directions, on the right is the hand of the arm that extends from the left, it is labeled "Politics" and is about to grab hold of a building labeled "The Banks", and on the left, is the hand of the arm that extends from the right, it is labeled "The Banks" and is using its thumb to squash the U.S. Capitol labeled "Politics".

Caption: Which is worse, financial control of politics, or political control of finance?
Illus. in: Puck, v. 74, no. 1903 (1913 August 20), centerfold.
Copyright 1913 by Keppler & Schwarzmann.