Political Caricatures

Images from Philippine Cartoons: Caricatures of the American Era 1900-1941, by Alfred McCoy and
AttredoRoces,pp. 181,32,41,138,42,67,53, 106,217,117,120,92,34,96,92,4, 121,35,36 , 99, 66,
Copyright e1984 by Alfred McCoyReprinted with permission by Alfred McCoy.

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The Loyalty of the Filipinos Editorial Cartoon 11.1
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- The First World War commenced
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Ferdinand by a Serbian nationalist,
Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo, Bosnia
... and Herzogovina. Though the U.S. is
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tained an isolationist policy of keeping its };iBf.ds off the war in Europe. It
was only on April 6, 1917 that the ·u.S. decid�d to enter the war in order to
tip the balance of its friends and allies to'11tii�� advantage. In this cartoon,
drawn by Fernando Amorsolo,' it shows Uiicl�: Sam taking Little Juan by the
hand. Published on April 14, eight days after the U.S. joined the war. 'Where is
Uncle Sam taking Little Juan? \¥hy is tµe US, which is an occupier taking the
occupie d in a war to liberate other countries? Why shouldn't the Philippines be
liberated first'? Notice the faces of Uncle Sam and Little Juan. Notice also that
Little Juari was holding a pole �ith a flag that appears to have been blackened.
The reason is that the American colonial government enacted the Flag Law
in 1907, forbidding the display of flags meant to symbolize an independent
Philippines. Such law meant a penalty of death and the deprivation of the
petition for the writ of habeas corpus.

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Filipino vs. American Worker
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( In 1928
Bag-ong Kusog (November 9,
• 1928)- From the cartoon published
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23. 1915, 13 years later the gap
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' How is the American worker
Mamumuong Amerika'nhon I Mamumuong Pilipinhon : depicted differently from that of
. the Filipino worker'? Under what
... �c:.., Q •· •• �� • }diff�rent conditions were they
laboring? How much different was the American worker receiving as salary
from that of the Filipino worker?
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Social Caricatures
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Editorial Cartoon 11.18

A Congesting City
The Independent (May 1, 1920)
- Manila was getting 1crowded
with the lack of space for resident
and even. offices.
. ' Who was
pictured to be enjoying spacious
buildings which they should have
r�linquished since friar lands
had been appropriated? , l ,,

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:. Deteriorating Health
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·-: 16, 1921)-Ti·opical diseases were
_;-.problems that the Americans
�:Jfaced when they came over in
. 1898. They effectively placed
' the problem under control by
�establishing the Board of Health.
· The Americans also built sewers
and drainages in l\1anila in
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