The cartoon here was used as a way of getting the people to vote against the bankers and the monopolists that existed in the gildedage in America.
<h3>What was the Free silver about?</h3>
This was the term that was used to refer to the fight that the unions and the monopolists had against those they regarded as the monopolists and the barons in the United States.
Free silver was regarded as the peoples money. Hence they are being urged to take back what is theirs.
