By BENJAMIN DeCASSERES.

Grand Marshal:
The Mad-Hatter

On Horseback:
Politicians, Racketeers, Dope Kings

In Automobiles:
Brain-Trusters, Bureaucrats, Economists

Grand Float:
The United States Treasury Pumping Out Billions of
Dollars All Over the World

TAXPAYERS TAXPAYERS TAXPAYERS
Dragging Ball and Chain

CLOWNS SENATORS SENATORS CLOWNS

Grand Float:
Guillotine Chopping Off the Heads of Capitalists

On Foot:
Upton Sinclair Leading Ten Thousand Communists

TAXPAYERS TAXPAYERS TAXPAYERS
Dragging Ball and Chain

Grand Float:
Marriner S. Eccles Dividing Our Incomes Among
the Spectators

GANGSTERS GANGSTERS GANGSTERS

Colossal Tumbril in Which Sits Big Business Manacled

INFLATIONISTS DEFLATIONISTS DILUTIONISTS
STABILIZERS

On Foot:
Henry A. Wallace Gertrude Stein Rexford G. Tugwell

TAXPAYERS TAXPAYERS TAXPAYERS
Dragging Ball and Chain

Revolving Platform:
Dr. Townsend Hurling Another Fellow’s
$8,000,000,000 to the Multitude

Grand Float:
Radical Professors Carrying the Moscow State
University to New York

DEVALUATIONISTS DEPRECIATIONISTS
REVALUATIONISTS EXPANSIONISTS

Tableau Vivant:
Huey Long, Theodore G. Bilbo, Jim Farley and
General Johnson in a Battle Royal

On a Mule:
Nicholas Murray Butler Costumed as Jupiter

TAXPAYERS TAXPAYERS TAXPAYERS
Dragging Ball and Chain

Grand Float:
Symbolical Figure of the NRA Making No Thing Grow
Where Two Things Grew Before

COMMUNISTS FASCISTS NAZISTS SOCIALISTS

An Old Fire-Horse Labeled CREDIT

Grand Float (for the Kiddies):
A Gigantic Rubber Figure Labeled
THE NATIONAL DEBT Dilating to Bursting Dimensions

TAXPAYERS TAXPAYERS TAXPAYERS
Dragging Ball and Chain

Ambulances Ambulances Ambulances Ambulances

MIKE ROMANOFF

Original publication
Benjamin DeCasseres, “American Parade,” Syracuse Journal, March 28, 1935, editorial page (number unresolved).