1898 was a time of many perspectives and opinions in the 1898 current events. The United States was active in expansion; the obtaining of Hawaii, and the attempt to obtain control over the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Cuba. The expansion of the United States and the attempting to convert the nations to US cultural customs and beliefs (whether it was in good intention of the US or not). In doing so, the public, not only the United States but also the South American, Spanish, German, and other nations who saw the process of events and intentions the United States were taking and following, had serious ridicule or opinion about such actions and intentions. Editorial Cartoons were, and still are today, a freedom of expression that shows not only
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This editorial cartoon shows what looks to be Lady Liberty showing her patriotism by wearing the American Flag as a skirt, while she is carrying a naval officer's saber on a large and heavily armed naval military ship that has President Theodore Roosevelt’s smiling face made from gold on the bow of the ship. If observed closely, you can see that Lady Liberty is actually sitting on large missiles and she is being followed by an extremely threatenly large fleet of military naval vessels while at the bottom the the editorial cartoon the words “peace” are in all capital letters. What does this editorial cartoon from 1898 represent? This represents the strong navy that the United States President Theodore Roosevelt believed was essential for economic and territorial expansion. But this editorial cartoon is a contradiction, there is an entire fleet of naval vessels yet in the bottom of the cartoon it has the word peace. This contradiction represent the contradiction Theodore Roosevelt had on his hands of his love and patriotism of the United States of America, while in trying …show more content…
First, examine “Cartoon 3” which was originally published in the German Magazine Kladderadatsch on April 24, 1898. In examining this cartoon it shows Uncle Sam and the Spain having a standoff over Cuba, they both appear to have one foot in Cuba, and in both Spain and Uncle Sam having one foot in Cuba, it appears that they completely ruin and demolish Cuba unintentionally in doing so. While the United States saw what we were doing was for the better of the inferior nations as a whole, in this case cuba, the foreign newspaper saw the United States and Spain's battle over Cuba as destructive to Cuba, even if it wasn't the intention of either nation. Next examine “Cartoon 4” created by Opisso and was published by Review of Reviews on March 1905, this was a newspaper publication in Barcelona, Spain. This cartoon is of Theodore Roosevelt in full armor standing on the Philippines and Cuba with all of the voted falling over the Philippines but end up drifting over to Cuba. It appears that the Philippines is in fairly bad shape and there appears to be fighting in the nation, but Cuba seems to be heavily armed and has no violence in the nation. This cartoon differs from American perspective of American foreign policy versus Spain's foreign perspective by the United States seeing Cuba as inferior and
This editorial cartoon shows what looks to be Lady Liberty showing her patriotism by wearing the American Flag as a skirt, while she is carrying a naval officer's saber on a large and heavily armed naval military ship that has President Theodore Roosevelt’s smiling face made from gold on the bow of the ship. If observed closely, you can see that Lady Liberty is actually sitting on large missiles and she is being followed by an extremely threatenly large fleet of military naval vessels while at the bottom the the editorial cartoon the words “peace” are in all capital letters. What does this editorial cartoon from 1898 represent? This represents the strong navy that the United States President Theodore Roosevelt believed was essential for economic and territorial expansion. But this editorial cartoon is a contradiction, there is an entire fleet of naval vessels yet in the bottom of the cartoon it has the word peace. This contradiction represent the contradiction Theodore Roosevelt had on his hands of his love and patriotism of the United States of America, while in trying …show more content…
First, examine “Cartoon 3” which was originally published in the German Magazine Kladderadatsch on April 24, 1898. In examining this cartoon it shows Uncle Sam and the Spain having a standoff over Cuba, they both appear to have one foot in Cuba, and in both Spain and Uncle Sam having one foot in Cuba, it appears that they completely ruin and demolish Cuba unintentionally in doing so. While the United States saw what we were doing was for the better of the inferior nations as a whole, in this case cuba, the foreign newspaper saw the United States and Spain's battle over Cuba as destructive to Cuba, even if it wasn't the intention of either nation. Next examine “Cartoon 4” created by Opisso and was published by Review of Reviews on March 1905, this was a newspaper publication in Barcelona, Spain. This cartoon is of Theodore Roosevelt in full armor standing on the Philippines and Cuba with all of the voted falling over the Philippines but end up drifting over to Cuba. It appears that the Philippines is in fairly bad shape and there appears to be fighting in the nation, but Cuba seems to be heavily armed and has no violence in the nation. This cartoon differs from American perspective of American foreign policy versus Spain's foreign perspective by the United States seeing Cuba as inferior and