When an 1882 cartoon in San Francisco’s Wasp newspaper depicted the Southern Pacific Railroad as an octopus with the whole state of California in its far-reaching tentacles, it launched an… ...

Poor woman! How she has degraded herself and failed of accomplishing her object to injure, to smirch, to overthrow the Standard Oil Company, to satisfy the petty spite against it because forsooth ...

Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Company, which held a virtual monopoly over the US oil market. It being named after the nation’s very personification ‘Uncle Sam’ was no accident, but rather a ...