Symbolic Death to Stamp Agents Protesters in many towns staged threatening demonstrations designed to make any stamp distributor reconsider selling the hated stamps. In this contemporary cartoon, a dummy wearing a hat and waistcoat is being led to destruction. One protester carries a hangman’s gallows, another a large bundle of sticks to burn the dummy. Do you think the cartoonist was in sympathy with the demonstrators? The Granger Collection, New York.