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The Wicked Witch of the West represents the trusts, who took control of small businessmen and made them cogs in their empire, just as the Witch does with the heroes, using the Flying Monkeys as her tools.  The trust issue was in the headlines, with a popular solution—one actually used in 1911 against [[Standard Oil]] to dissolve them. Dorothy heaves a bucket of water and dissolves the Wicked Witch.

The Wicked Witch of the West represents the trusts, who took control of small businessmen and made them cogs in their empire, just as the Witch does with the heroes, using the Flying Monkeys as her tools.  The trust issue was in the headlines, with a popular solution—one actually used in 1911 against [[Standard Oil]] to dissolve them. Dorothy heaves a bucket of water and dissolves the Wicked Witch.

The heroes return to Oz to claim their reward and expose the Wizard for a media-manipulating fraud. He has no real power and must leave Oz the way he came - on a hot air balloon. (Politicians were synonymous with metaphors like "hot air" and "full of gas.") But he is a shrewd psychologist and realizes the heroes already possess what they think they lack; they just lack self-confidence.  He fills the Scarecrow's head with bran for a brain, implants a heart-shaped silk cushion inside the Tin Woodman (who now realizes his compassionate nature), makes the Lion drink a dish of "courage" and becomes king of the beasts again.  He promises to take Dorothy back to Omaha, his hometown, but that plan misfires. The Good Witch of [[the South]] (the Southern) vote appears. (In 1896 the South voted solidly for Bryan and free silver.) She is smarter than her sister the Good Witch of the North, and tells Dorothy to click her silver slippers three times—that believing will make it come true, and Dorothy arrives home again.  It is a classic adventure story of travel to distant lands, and a story of running away from home and returning, a favorite theme for children.

The heroes return to Oz to claim their reward and expose the Wizard for a media-manipulating fraud. He has no real power and must leave Oz the way he came - on a hot air balloon. (Politicians were synonymous with metaphors like "hot air" and "full of gas.") But he is a shrewd psychologist and realizes the heroes already possess what they think they lack; they just lack [[self-confidence]].  He fills the Scarecrow's head with bran for a brain, implants a heart-shaped silk cushion inside the Tin Woodman (who now realizes his compassionate nature), makes the Lion drink a dish of "courage" and becomes king of the beasts again.  He promises to take Dorothy back to Omaha, his hometown, but that plan misfires. The Good Witch of [[the South]] (the Southern) vote appears. (In 1896 the South voted solidly for Bryan and free silver.) She is smarter than her sister the Good Witch of the North, and tells Dorothy to click her silver slippers three times—that believing will make it come true, and Dorothy arrives home again.  It is a classic adventure story of travel to distant lands, and a story of running away from home and returning, a favorite theme for children.

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