Spanish-American War Cartoons

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In this cartoon you can clearly see that McKinley is raising the flag of imperialism while William Jennings Bryan is trying to chop it down. That is the main focus of the cartoon but then you can also see in the background two American flags places on Cuba and Uncle Sam and a British man standing happily on the US. Obviously the islands are a lot closer together than they really would be on a map. This cartoon was probably made around the time that William was trying to push out imperialism so that her could win the election and that is why McKinley is trying  to build it up while Bryan is trying to bring it down. I think this cartoon was mainly aimed at the United States and at the Philippines because those are the two countries that are really shown in this cartoon. I also think that it is important that they put Uncle Sam and the British man in the background watching because it shows that they were basically in the clear and were just observing. I wonder why they are putting the imperialist flag up in the Philippines because the election was going on in the US?