<Li> The Scarecrow as a representation of American farmers and their troubles in the late 19th century </Li> <Li> The Tin Man representing the industrial workers, especially those of American steel industries </Li> <Li> The Cowardly Lion as a metaphor for William Jennings Bryan </Li> <P> Taylor also claimed a sort of iconography for the cyclone: it was used in the 1890s as a metaphor for a political revolution that would transform the drab country into a land of color and unlimited prosperity . It was also used by editorial cartoonists of the 1890s to represent political upheaval . </P>

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