'Greed', illustration from Coin's Financial School
Full-page illustration titled 'Greed' (signed Mayer) from W. H. Harvey's free-silver pamphlet Coin's Financial School (Chicago, 1894), widely circulated in the 1896 silver campaign: a gaunt, wild-eyed seated man clutches money bags over a pile of coins. Harvey's pamphlet staged a fictional lecture series by a boy, 'Coin', arguing for 16-to-1 bimetallism; opponents answered it with many replies in 1895-96.
- Date
- 1894
- Period
- Pre-1914
- Made by
- W. H. Harvey, Coin Publishing Company, Chicago
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Books and pamphlets
- Issuer type
- Individual
- Regime
- Cleveland Administration
- Leader
- Grover Cleveland
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Theme
- Economy and finance
- Event
- 1896 US Election
- Techniques
- Name-calling
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (from the Wikisource transcription of the 1894 book), retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain by age (published 1894); Commons file tagged public domain; Internet Archive copy marked NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT
Wikimedia Commons / Wikisource; Internet Archive (University of California copy)
