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Who ivas the real Wizard of Oz
"Peace is our final good."
St. Augustine
Dr. Jeffrey BRADY,
S.w. 3RD A YAMHILL ST.. PORTI ANO I I H I i i a
1AKE ELEVATOR TO 2ND FLOOR3RD s i ’. E m S a m E
by Peter Dreier
But in that election, which
sees an awful beast, the Cowardly
revolved around the issue o f gold vs.
Lion “ a ball o f fire, so fierce and
Whether they are fans o f Judy
silver, Populist-Democrat W illiam
glowing he could scarcely bear to
Garland and "O ver the Rainbow" or
Jennings Bryan lost to Republican
gaze upon it.”
prefer the recent $20 m illion Black
W illiam McKinley by 95 electoral
Later, however, when they con
film with Diana Ross and "N o Bad
votes. Bryan, a congressman from
front the Wizard directly, they see he
News, almost all Americans know
Nebraska and a gifted orator, ran
is nothing more than “ a little man,
the characters from "The Wizard o f
again in 1900, but the P opulist
w
ith a bald head and a wrinkled
O z ." But few are aware that the
strength was gone.
face.”
story was o rig in a lly w ritten as a
Baum viewed these events in both
“ I have been making believe,” the
political allegory.
rural South D akota — where he
Wizard
confesses. “ I ’ m just a com
It may seem harder to believe than
edited a local weekly — and urban
mon man.” But the Scarecrow adds,
the Em erald C ity , but the T in
Chicago — where he wrote Oz. He
“ You’ re more than th a t. . . you’re a
Woodsman is the industrial worker,
mourned the destruction o f the
humbug.”
the Scarecrow the struggling farmer,
fragile alliance between the M id
" I t was a great mistake my ever
and the Wizard is the President, who
western farmers (the Scarecrow) and
letting you into the Throne Room,”
is powerful only as long as he suc
the urban industrial workers (the tin
admits the Wizard, a former ven
ceeds in deceiving the people.
man). A long w ith Bryan (the
triloquist
and circus balloonist from
“ The Wonderful Wizard o f O z"
Cowardly Lion with a roar but little
Omaha.
was written by Lyman Frank Baum
else), they had been taken down the
This was Baum’s ultimate Populist
in 1900, during the collapse o f the
yellow brick road (the gold standard)
message.
The powers-that-be survive
Populist movement. Through the
that led nowhere. Each journeyed to
by deception. Only people’s ignorance
Populist Party, Midwestern farmers,
Emerald C ity seeking favors from
allows the powerful to manipulate
in alliance with some urban workers
the Wizard o f Oz (the President).
and
control them.
had challenged the banks, railroads
Dorothy, the symbol o f Everyman,
Dorothy
returns to Kansas with
and other economic interests that
went along w ith them , innocent
the magical help o f her Silver Shoes
squeezed farmers through low prices,
enough to see the truth before the
(the silver issue), but when she gets to
high freight rates and continued in
others.
Kansas
she realizes her shoes “ had
debtedness.
A long the way they meet the
fallen o ff in her flight through the
The Populists advocated govern
Wicked W itch o f the East who,
air, and were lost forever in the
ment ow nership o f ra ilro a d s,
Baum tells us, had kept the little
desert.”
Still, she is safe at home
telephone and telegraph industries.
Munchkin people " in bondage for
with
Aunt
Em and Uncle Henry,
They also wanted silver coinage.
many years, making them slave for
simple farmers.
Their power grew during the 1893
her night and day.” She had also put
Baum realized perhaps that the
depression, the worst in U.S. history
a spell on the Tin Woodsman, once
silver
issue had been lost, but that
till then, as farm prices sank to new
an independent and hardw orking
silver was not the crucial issue
lows and unemployment was wide
man, so that each time he swung his
anyway. The Populists had been lead
spread.
axe, he chopped o ff a different part
astray
— the real question was that
In 1894, Jacob S. Coxey, a
o f his body. Lacking another trade,
o
f
power.
With the Wizard o f Oz
P opulist lum ber dealer from
he “ worked harder than e ve r,”
dethroned, the Scarecrow (farmers)
Massillon, Ohio, led a mass march o f
becoming like a machine, incapable
rules Emerald City, the Tin Woods
unemployed workers to Washington
o f love, yearning for a heart. The
man (industrial worker) rules in the
to demand a federal works program.
Wicked Witch o f the West clearly
West, and the Lion (Bryan) protects
That same year. President Grover
symbolizes the large industrial cor
sm
aller beasts in ” a small old
Cleveland called in federal troops
porations.
forest.” In Baum’ s vision, farm in
to put down the nationwide Pullman
L ike Coxey’ s A rm y, the small
terests gain political power, industry
strike
at that time, the largest
group heads toward Emerald City
moves West, and Bryan, perhaps,
strike in American history. As the
where the Wizard rules from behind
returns to Congress.
Populists saw things, the monopolies
a papier mache facade. Oz, by the
Baum’s characters resonated with
were growing richer, the workers and
way, is the abbreviation for ounce,
American popular culture at the turn
farmers, ever poorer.
the standard measure for gold.
o f the century. He even displayed an
In the 1894 Congressional elec
L ike all good p o litic ia n s , the
early
sympathy for native Americans
tions, the Populist Party got almost
W izard can be a ll things to all
o
f
the
plains, symbolized in the story
40 percent o f the vote. It looked for
people. D o ro th y sees him as an
by the Winged Monkeys in the West,
ward to winning the Presidency, and
enormous head. The Scarecrow sees
whose leader tells Dorothy, "Once
the silver standard, in 1896.
a gossamer fairy. The Woodsman
we were a free people, living happily
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in the great forest. . . This was many
years ago, long before Oz came out
o f t he clouds to rule over this land. ’ ’
The story remains intact in both
film versions, but the message has
disappeared. Ironically, the first film
was made in 1939, during the next
m ajor Depression, when business
was once again challenged by farm
ers, industrial workers and progres
sive politicians.
In 1977, Aljean Hermetz detailed
the history o f the 1939 film in a
book, “ The Making o f the ‘ Wizard
o f Oz.’ ” He credited Baum but did
not mention the story was a political
parable. The first full explanation o f
the book as a parable appeared in an
essay by Henry M. Littlefield in the
1964 American Quarterly.
(P eter D reier is an assistant
p ro fe sso r o f sociology at Tufts
University where he teaches a course
on film and politics.)
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