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title: The bogus workingman and his lonsome boom
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/bogus-workingman-butler-1884/
description: 'Puck cover by Frederick Burr Opper, 10 September 1884: Benjamin F. Butler in a patched workman''s shirt beside a box of ''Tools for Exhibition Purposes''…'
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** 1884 cartoon with a minstrel-style caricature of a Black valet. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![The bogus workingman and his lonsome boom](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/bogus-workingman-butler-1884.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/bogus-workingman-butler-1884.jpg)

# The bogus workingman and his lonsome boom

Puck cover by Frederick Burr Opper, 10 September 1884: Benjamin F. Butler in a patched workman's shirt beside a box of 'Tools for Exhibition Purposes', handing his valet the instruction 'Keep an eye on the valuables, while I go out and address the mass-meeting', with bonds, 'R.R. Stock' and 'Monopolists' fees' at his feet and a thinly attended 'Grand Butler Mass-Meeting' outside.

[← A little private mutual admiration scheme, - Joss Ben and his only priest, Sun-Sun](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/joss-ben-butler-1884/) ["Blaine will be vindicated in November" -- N.Y. Tribune →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/blaine-vindicated-1884/)

## Using the same techniques

- [Behistun (Bisotun) rock relief and trilingual inscription of Darius I: the king, two attendants and the bound rebel leaders beneath the winged figure of Ahuramazda](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/behistun-relief-darius-and-rebels-521bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Name-calling, Testimonial). Content note: Shows bound captives before the king, and the inscription records the mutilation and public execution of rebel leaders, as the king's own account.
- [Passional Christi und Antichristi: the emperor kisses the pope's foot (leaf 'Antichristus')](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/passional-christi-antichristi-emperor-kisses-pope-1521/) (Electoral Saxony · 1521 · Name-calling, Card stacking)
- [Anacoana fut pendue sans raison (engraving in Le miroir de la cruelle et horrible tyrannie espagnole)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/anacoana-hanged-miroir-tyrannie-espagnole-1620/) (Dutch Republic · 1620 · Fear appeal, Name-calling). Content note: Engraving of a hanged, bare-breasted Taino woman, burning huts and people being killed by Spanish soldiers.
- [Ondersoeckt de Geesten, ofse van den Duyvel syn, of niet (the De Witt brothers as devils)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ondersoeckt-de-geesten-de-witt-devils-1672/) (Dutch Republic · 1672 · Scapegoating, Name-calling)
- [The Highlanders Medley, or The Duke Triumphant (A Loyal Song)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/highlanders-medley-duke-triumphant-1746/) (Great Britain · 1746 · Name-calling, Transfer)
- [The North Briton, No. XLV, 23 April 1763 (John Wilkes), opening page](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/north-briton-no-45-wilkes-1763/) (Kingdom of Great Britain · Apr 23, 1763 · Name-calling)
- [The Bloody Massacre perpetrated in King Street Boston on March 5th 1770 by a party of the 29th Regt.](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/revere-bloody-massacre-king-street-1770/) (Province of Massachusetts Bay · Mar 1770 · Name-calling, Card stacking). Content note: Hand-coloured engraving of bloodied dead and wounded colonists after soldiers fired on a crowd.
- [Marche du Dom Quichotte moderne pour la deffence du Moulin des Abus (March of the Modern Don Quixote in Defence of the Mill of Abuses)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dom-quichotte-moulin-des-abus-1791/) (France · 1791 · Name-calling, Transfer)