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en:Political cartoon showing aftermath of the Spanish American War.

en:Uncle Sam balances his new possessions, which are depicted as savage children. The figures are identified as en:Puerto Rico, en:Hawaii, en:Cuba, en:Philippines, and "Ladrones" (the en:Mariana Islands). Figures representing other nations look on. en:John Bull says via the caption "It's really most extraordinary what training will do. Why, only the other day I thought that man unable to support himself."

Cartoon originally printed in Philadelphia Inquirer. Scanned by Infrogmation from reprint in en:1899 book "War in the Philippines"



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  • 2003-10-22 23:44 Infrogmation 428×622×8 (106077 bytes) Uncle Sam balancing his new territories, cartoon from 1899 book

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