Eles estão vindo, Tio Sam
1878
Uncle Sam sits wearily on a stool in this biting 1878 political cartoon by Thomas Nast, waiting for the 'next' country to join the International Conference for the Remonetization of Silver. Beside him stands a figure representing Greece—dressed in traditional fustanella and wearing a bucket labeled 'GREACE'—signaling that Switzerland and 'Greace' have already accepted the proposal. Nast, the father of the American political cartoon, uses a visual pun here, playing on the spelling of Greece to mock the slippery economic politics of the silver standard debate. It's a classic example of how 19th-century illustrators turned complex financial policy into digestible, humorous satire.
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