They expect the impossible - Print shows President William McKinley as Moses with two rays of light emitting from his top hat, and wearing a red cape labeled "McKinley", standing next to a large rock labeled "Prosperity" that has split and is spewing money toward a throng of people representing mostly the working class and the poor who stream from the factories in the background. Political Cartoon, 1897

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