Ring Arithmetic,Taught by Modern Ceasers,1871,Tammany Political Boss,Tweed

Title: The ring arithmetic--as taught by the modern ceasers
Related Names:
Kelly, Ths. (Thomas)
Robertson, Wm C. (William C.)
Date Created/Published: N.Y. : Pub. by Ths. Kelly, 1871.
Summary: Tammany political boss William Marcy Tweed is portrayed as a bullying schoolteacher giving New York City comptroller Richard B. Connolly a lesson in arithmetic. A teary-eyed Connolly stands on a stool writing wildly inaccurate equations on a blackboard. For instance, '$147 x 2 equals $1380948'). Connolly protests to his teacher, 'These figures wont suit my Father the public,' but Tweed responds, 'Never mind the public Mind me I will make a rich man of you 12 years ago I was poor, now I am rich by this new arithmetic.' Behind the board are two padlocked ledgers-- 'City Debt 1871 125,000,000' and 'City Debt 1869 30,000,000.' Exaggerated bills for the building of the county courthouse are posted on the wall. The building's final cost was $12 million, of which two-thirds was fraudulent. In less than three years Tweed's 'ring' of corrupt officials managed to rob the city's treasury of $30 million.
Notes:
Entered . . . 1871 by Thomas Kelly.
Lith. by Wm. C. Robertson 59 Cedar St. N.Y.
Pub. by Ths. Kelly 17 Barclay St. N.Y.
Title appears as it is written on the item.
Werner, p. 165-167.
Forms part of: American cartoon print filing series (Library of Congress)
Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1871-3.
Subjects:
Connolly, Richard B.
Tweed, William Marcy,--1823-1878.
Political elections--1870-1880.
Politics & government--1870-1880.
New York (N.Y.)--1870-1880.
New York (State)--1870-1880.
Lithographs--1870-1880.
Political cartoons--1870-1880.
Bookmark /2008661712/
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