Spanish-American War

 

The issue that this political cartoon is about would be the Spanish-American War. The cartoonist is trying to tell the audience that the Spanish-American War was not the greatest idea in terms that we basically wounded the Filipinos. Another person could think that the Spanish-American War was useful because we got to gain new territories such as the Philippines and Cuba. The cartoonist used analogy and labelling to make this cartoon persuasive. The cartoonist used the analogy to compare the Filipinos to a weak, helpless child, and compared the United States to a strong man. The cartoonist used labelling on the Filipino child to show how the Filipinos were being treated during the Spanish-American War. This cartoon supports my position because I do not think that the Spanish-American War was meant to treat the Filipinos like slaves.