Dorothy’s slippers were made of silver, not ruby, implying that silver was the Populists’ solution to the nation’s economic misery. The lion is William Bryan, face of the Free Silver Movement (advocating adding silver to the gold standard would ease deflation). The Wicked Witch of the West: President William McKinley. The ‘yellow brick road’ is the Gold Standard. The scarecrow represents the farmers in the west. Dorothy represents traditional American values. Did you know that the real story of the ‘The Wonderful Wizard of Oz’ (1900) was about the Gold Standard? Each character represents a person or group active in the late 1800s.
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