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  • They can’t hold up this train! by Charles Jay Taylor, 1855-1929, artist, 1893. President Cleveland as a railroad engineer driving a locomotive labelled “Administration R.R.” that is roaring out of a tunnel labelled “Business Depression Tunnel”, and knocking out of the way legislators who are placing “Dilatory Amendments” and “Teller’s Dilatory Tactics” on the tracks, trying to derail the train; among the legislators are Francis M. Cockrell, James Z. George, James L. Pugh, William A. Peffer, George G. Vest, James D. Cameron, William M. Stewart, Henry M. Teller, John P. Jones, and Edward O. Wolcott. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)Politics

    Is American history reminding you of dark, tumultuous periods from the past? Consider the Gilded Age of the late 19th century

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