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Thomas Nast's cartoon depicts the members of the Tweed Ring standing in a circle, each pointing at the person next to them to deflect blame for the corruption and theft in New York City. Nast’s message is that the entire group is complicit in the corruption and that no single individual is taking responsibility for stealing the public's money. By portraying them this way, Nast highlights that the whole political machine, led by Boss Tweed, is guilty of defrauding the city's taxpayers and that their behavior is a dishonest cycle of blame-shifting.