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Standard Oil Company Octopus Cartoon. This political cartoon drawn during the gilded age depicts standard oil as an octopus which uses unscrupulous business methods to put the competition out of business. The standard oil company was often depicted by critics as an octopus because of the way they eliminated competition.

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Notice that its arms are wrapped around not just the united states congress and a state house but also the cooper, steel and shipping industries. The octopus in this political cartoon is meant to represent a 'standard oil company'. This political cartoon drawn during the gilded age depicts standard oil as an octopus which uses unscrupulous business methods to put the competition out of business.

Primary Source Images The Progressive Era United States

By faizan sohail posted on september 20, 2010. Capitol, and one tentacle reaching for the white house. Its tentacles make a convenient metaphor for a grasping, threatening, strangling force. This item is a digital download.