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Now, Will You Be Good? Uncle Sam (to Filipino) — "See what I do for a good little boy?"
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Uncle Sam Watches over Cuba and the Philippines
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The Spanish-American War ended in December, 1898, when Spain surrendered to the U.S. and negotiated a peace treaty that sold Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines to the U.S. Cuba remained independent, but firmly under the influence of the United States. The Philippine Republic went to war against the U.S. to defend its independence. The brutal war lasted three years, and was followed by a half-century of U.S. occupation of the Philippines. This political cartoon appeared in the conservative <em>Judge</em> magazine in 1902.
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Grant Hamilton
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Grant Hamilton, <em>Judge</em>, chromolithograph, 14 December 1902.
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Industrialization and Expansion (1877-1913)
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Uncle Sam Teaches a Class In "Self-Government"
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In this political cartoon from shortly after the conclusion of the Spanish-American War in 1898, "Uncle Sam" disciplines a class of unruly "children," representing Cuba, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Hawaii. The mustachioed figure reading the book at left is General Maximo Gomez, the military commander in Cuba's War of Independence, while the figure wearing the "dunce cap" represents Filipino independence leader Emilio Aguinaldo. While sarcastic touches, such as the "Map of the United States and Neighboring Countries" in the background, suggest the cartoonist may not have entirely approved of the United States' imperial efforts, his work nonetheless exemplifies the paternalistic and racist stereotypes with which Americans of all political stripes tended to view those in the countries that came under U.S. influence at the time.
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W.A. Rogers
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W.A. Rogers, "Uncle Sam's New Class in Self-Government," <em>Harper's Weekly</em>, Vol. 42, No. 2175, 27 August 1898.
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Industrialization and Expansion (1877-1913)
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Expansion and Imperialism
Philippine-American War
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Something Lacking. Uncle Sam: "Well, Sonny, What Is It?" Philippines: "Where Do I Come In On This?"
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Uncle Sam Finds "Something Lacking" In New Possessions
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The outcome of the Spanish-American War had far-reaching consequences for several of Spain's former colonies. The United States annexed Puerto Rico, the Philippines, and Guam, while Cuba became independent but subject to American influence. This political cartoon from shortly before the conclusion of the war in 1898 reflects the pro-expansionist view, contrasting the benefits derived from American involvement by Puerto Rico (in a shiny new outfit marked "Annexation Suit from Your Uncle Sam") and Cuba (clutching bread and waving the flag of independence), with the uncertain status of the Philippines, depicted as mired in a primitive, "savage" condition. Typically, all three nations are depicted as children, dependent on a kindly and benevolent Uncle Sam.
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"Something Lacking," 30 July 1898, from John J. Johnson, <em>Latin America in Caricature</em> (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1993).
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Industrialization and Expansion (1877-1913)
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"Showing the Light to the Filipinos"
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From 1898 to 1902, the United States waged a bloody war in the Philippines. Filipinos wanted independence from centuries of Spanish colonial rule. U.S. leaders, however, saw the opportunity to control the Philippines and gain access to markets in Asia. President McKinley argued that the Filipinos could not govern themselves or defend themselves against other countries. Many supporters of the Philippine-American war also believed in the "civilizing mission"—the idea that European nations and the United States had a moral duty to civilize "backwards" peoples in other parts of the world by introducing Western culture and technology.
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<em>Boston Herald</em>, March 1899
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Industrialization and Expansion (1877-1913)
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Philippine-American War
Savage Acts
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<p>Take up the White Man’s burden—<br />Send forth the best ye breed—<br />Go send your sons to exile<br />To serve your captives' need</p>
<p>To wait in heavy harness<br />On fluttered folk and wild—<br />Your new-caught, sullen peoples,<br />Half devil and half child</p>
<p>Take up the White Man’s burden<br />In patience to abide<br />To veil the threat of terror<br />And check the show of pride;</p>
<p>By open speech and simple<br />An hundred times made plain<br />To seek another’s profit<br />And work another’s gain</p>
<p>Take up the White Man’s burden—<br />And reap his old reward:<br />The blame of those ye better<br />The hate of those ye guard—</p>
<p>The cry of hosts ye humour<br />(Ah slowly) to the light:<br />"Why brought ye us from bondage,<br />Our loved Egyptian night?”</p>
<p>Take up the White Man’s burden-<br />Have done with childish days-<br />The lightly proffered laurel,<br />The easy, ungrudged praise.</p>
<p>Comes now, to search your manhood<br />Through all the thankless years,<br />Cold-edged with dear-bought wisdom,<br />The judgment of your peers!</p>
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"The White Man's Burden: The United States and the Philippine Islands"
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In February 1899, British novelist and poet Rudyard Kipling wrote a poem entitled "The White Man's Burden: The United States and The Philippine Islands." In this poem, Kipling urged the U.S. to take up the "burden" of empire, as had Britain and other European nations. Published in the February, 1899 issue of <em>McClure's Magazine</em>, the poem coincided with the beginning of the Philippine-American War and U.S. Senate ratification of the treaty that placed Puerto Rico, Guam, Cuba, and the Philippines under American control. Theodore Roosevelt, soon to become vice-president and then president, copied the poem and sent it to his friend, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, commenting that it was "rather poor poetry, but good sense from the expansion point of view." Not everyone was as favorably impressed as Roosevelt. The racialized notion of the "White Man's burden" became a euphemism for imperialism, and many anti-imperialists couched their opposition in reaction to the phrase.
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Rudyard Kipling
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Rudyard Kipling, "The White Man's Burden: The United States & The Philippine Islands, 1899." <em>Rudyard Kipling's Verse: Definitive Edition </em>(Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1929). From History Matters: The U.S. Survey Course on the Web, http://historymatters.gmu.edu/
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1899
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Industrialization and Expansion (1877-1913)
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Philippine-American War
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<p align="left"><strong>The "White Man's Burden": Uncle Sam to Kipling </strong></p>
<em>
<p><em>"Take up the White Man's burden!</em></p>
</em><em>
<p><em>Have done with childish days." -- R. K.</em></p>
</em>
<p> </p>
<p>Oh, thank you, Mr. Kipling,<br />For showing us the way <br />To buckle down to business<br />And end our "childish day." <br />We know we're young and frisky<br />And haven't too much sense -- <br />At least, not in the measure<br />We'll have a few years hence.</p>
<p>Now, this same "White Man's burden"<br />You're asking us to tote <br />Is not so unfamiliar<br />As you're inclined to note. <br />We freed three million negroes,<br />Their babies and their wives; <br />It cost a billion dollars,<br />And near a million lives!</p>
<p>And while we were a-fighting<br />In all those "thankless years" <br />We did not get much helping --<br />Well, not from English "peers." <br />And so -- with best intentions --<br />We're not exactly wild <br />To free the Filipino,<br />"Half devil and half child."</p>
<p>Then thank you, Mr. Kipling,<br />Though not disposed to groan <br />About the White Man's Burden,<br />We've troubles of our own; <br />Enough to keep us busy<br />When English friends enquire, <br />"Why don't you use your talons?<br />There are chestnuts in the fire!" </p>
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"The 'White Man's Burden': Uncle Sam to Kipling"
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"Droch" was the pen name of Robert Bridges, a critic and editor at <em>Scribner's</em> and <em>Life</em> magazines and a friend to both Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt. In this response to Rudyard Kipling's "The White Man's Burden," he opens by sarcastically thanking Kipling for "showing us the way," and goes on to explain why some Americans may not be enthusiastic about the prospect of an empire, making particular reference to the experience of the Civil War. While not as strongly anti-imperialist as other works of the time, Bridges nonetheless concludes that "We've got troubles of our own/Enough to keep us busy" without the imperial adventure in the Philippines and elsewhere.
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Robert Bridges
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"Droch" (Robert Bridges), "The 'White Man's Burden': Uncle Sam to Kipling," <em>Life </em>33, 16 February 1899.
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Industrialization and Expansion (1877-1913)
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Expansion and Imperialism
Philippine-American War
Uncle Sam
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She’s my queen, Miss southern dream of the far off Philippines <br />For she’s the belle of old Manila, <br />My Filipina queen <br />She’s won with me with the brightness of her smile <br />And all her oriental dusky beauty with eyes like midnight dreams <br />This lady from the southern sunny isle.
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Louise Haack McLay
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Louise Haack McLay
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The Zeno Mauvais Music Company
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"The Belle of Manilla"
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During the 1890s, popular songs and sensationalist news coverage played a large role in drumming up support for U.S. intervention and the Spanish-American War. "The Belle of Manila," written in 1898, was one of many pro-war songs that were played in the homes of middle and upper-class families to build Patriotism and romanticize U.S. involvement abroad.
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Louise Haack McLay
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Louise Haack McLay, "The Belle of Manila," (San Francisco, Zeno Mauvais Music Company, 1898) from PBS, <em>Crucible of Empire: The Spanish American War</em>, http://www.pbs.org/crucible/frames/_music.html.
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Philippine-American War
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There will be a demonstration, decked with pompous ostentation by the black K.P.’s of this great nation <br />Noted coons of high connection, irrespective of complection, <br />Have been sent to grace this celebration. <br />Coons in rarest paraphernalia, <br />Gay plumed hats and loud regalia, <br />Representing knights of bravery. <br />Splendor or rare exception will be the vogue <br />With these proud distinguished black K.P.s <br /><br />Chorus: <br />When those brave black "knights" who are so bold <br />Come prancing down the streets with swords of Klondike gold <br />In costumes gorgeous to behold, a sight one seldom sees! <br />Fifty coon brass bands will be in line and each will play the latest music in ragtime <br />Proud plumed darkies looking fine, <br />Will shine while marching in the black K.P.s!
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Charles Hillman
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Sidney L. Perrin
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M. Witmark & Sons
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"The Black KPs" was written by Charles Hillman and Sidney L. Perrin in 1898 to bolster the domestic support for the war in the Philippines. While the sentiment behind the song was considered patriotic, the language in the lyrics are unmistakably racist.
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Charles Hillman and Sidney Perrin
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Charles Hillman and Sidney L. Perrin, <em>"The Black KPs"</em>, song and illustration (Chicago: M. Witmark & Sons, 1898), from Brown University Libraries, <em>African American Sheet Music</em>, http://dl.lib.brown.edu/repository2/repoman.php?verb=render&id=1087496124265625.
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Philippine-American War
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<p>Hold a moment longer! Not quite yet, gentlemen! Before you go I would like to say just a word about the Philippine business. I have been criticized a good deal about the Philippines, but don't deserve it. The truth is I didn't want the Philippines, and when they came to us, as a gift from the gods, I did not know what to do with them. When the Spanish War broke out Dewey was at Hongkong, and I ordered him to go to Manila and to capture or destroy the Spanish fleet, and he had to; because, if defeated, he had no place to refit on that side of the globe, and if the Dons were victorious they would likely cross the Pacific and ravage our Oregon and California coasts. And so he had to destroy the Spanish fleet, and did it! But that was as far as I thought then.</p>
<p>When I next realized that the Philippines had dropped into our laps I confess I did not know what to do with them. I sought counsel from all sides—Democrats as well as Republicans—but got little help. I thought first we would take only Manila; then Luzon; then other islands perhaps also. I walked the floor of the White House night after night until midnight; and I am not ashamed to tell you, gentlemen, that I went down on my knees and prayed Almighty God for light and guidance more than one night. And one night late it came to me this way—I don’t know how it was, but it came: (1) That we could not give them back to Spain—that would be cowardly and dishonorable; (2) that we could not turn them over to France and Germany—our commercial rivals in the Orient—that would be bad business and discreditable; (3) that we could not leave them to themselves—they were unfit for self-government—and they would soon have anarchy and misrule over there worse than Spain’s was; and (4) that there was nothing left for us to do but to take them all, and to educate the Filipinos, and uplift and civilize and Christianize them, and by God’s grace do the very best we could by them, as our fellow-men for whom Christ also died. And then I went to bed, and went to sleep, and slept soundly, and the next morning I sent for the chief engineer of the War Department (our map-maker), and I told him to put the Philippines on the map of the United States (pointing to a large map on the wall of his office), and there they are, and there they will stay while I am President!</p>
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President McKinley Puts the Philippines on the U.S. Map
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In this account of an 1899 meeting with a delegation of Methodist church leaders, President William McKinley defends his decision to support the annexation of the Philippines in the wake of the U.S. war in that country.
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William McKinley
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General James Rusling, "Interview with President William McKinley," <em>The Christian Advocate</em>, 22 January 1903, 17; from Daniel Schirmer and Stephen Shalom, eds., <em>The Philippines Reader</em> (Boston: South End Press, 1987), 22-23.
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Civil War and Reconstruction (1861-1877)
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Expansion and Imperialism
Philippine-American War
Spanish-American War
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<p>It is wrong, and in the judgment of most wise men it is impossible, to settle a question by mere force. To annihilate or terrorize those who oppose one's policy and then declare that the question at issue is settled is as cruel and foolish as it would be to pierce every human heart of love and then declare that love is a myth. Furthermore, it is unwise to attempt to settle a question by assuming that the facts are what we should like them to be. We ought to face the facts as they are, for our likes and dislikes bear no relation to truth and cannot alter a fact. It has been said that a question is never settled until it is settled right -- a truism which most persons will admit and which applies with peculiar force to the Philippines. . .</p>
<p>We have a proverb in our country which says: "It is better to be the head of the rat than the tail of the lion." This corresponds with the irreverent and somewhat extreme aphorism from Milton: "Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven." Both express the same idea, and show that the lofty ideal is shared by men of different complexions and climate. The Filipinos, like the Americans, prefer to be men, even in poverty, rather than subjects in luxury. They prefer self-respect, even at the cost of great suffering, rather than be serfs under a millennial government provided by a master. A self-imposed burden, however heavy, may be borne with cheerfulness; it does not crush the soul. But when one is compelled to bear even a feather weight, the free spirit implanted by God in man begins to rebel. This was true of the American patriots of 1776. The tax on tea did not seriously touch any one's pocket, but it touched every one's pride. Surely the manly American must have temporarily forgotten all this when he speaks of "giving" the Filipinos "prosperity under American rule!" No manly man can possibly desire to rob another human being of his manliness. The person who would do so ceases to be a man in the true sense of the word. The Americans, above all men in the world, ought to admire a people who will stand up for independence. Yet there are those who give expression to the thoughtless, soulless opinion that the Filipinos ought to be satisfied with the loss of self-respect in exchange for prosperity and bodily comfort. It is said that the Filipinos do not understand the Americans. That is probably true. But how little do the Americans understand the Filipinos!</p>
<p>… There is not a man in the forty-five states of this great union who could or would suffer a foreign flag to wave in authority over his country. Under such foreign rule he might have the same personal liberty, the same institutions, the most perfected form of government; but that which he would prize most of all would be gone. There is certainly not a man, or woman either, from the Golden Gate to Cape Cod, retaining the self-respect of his fellows, who would not be prepared to suffer and to die if necessary in order to maintain the independence of his country. Pure sentiment? But it is a fact with which the most benevolently inclined conqueror would have to reckon.</p>
<p>In this respect the Filipinos do not differ from the Americans. They have at least a right to the same sentiment, and they are just as ready to refuse to submit to the loss of that which, to them, is dearer than anything America can provide. They hold that the man who tries to force upon his neighbor that which he himself would utterly spurn degrades himself more than his victim; and as long as the attempt is made to practice such a process upon the Filipinos they will remain unconvinced of America's good intentions. There may be a few who, under pressure, will outwardly submit to that which they inwardly despise; but when America benevolently declares, "I am going to cut your right arm off, but be assured I shall bind the wound with suitable lint and bandages," an overwhelming majority of the Filipinos will doubt not only the wisdom of the operation but the sincerity of the operator, especially when they see that America still possesses both of her own arms!</p>
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Newspaper/Magazine
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A Filipino Independence Leader Denounces U.S. Intervention
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English
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American Social History Project / Center for Media and Learning
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Sixto Lopez (1863-1947) was a prominent and influential leader of the Filipino independence movement who worked closely with the American Anti-Imperialist League. In this article published in <em>Gunton's Magazine</em> (a pro-capitalist, pro-labor journal), Lopez denounces the U.S. presence in the Phillipines. He was secretary of the mission led by Felipe Agoncillo that was sent to the United States by the Philippine Republic in 1898 to negotiate U.S. recognition of Philippine independence. When war broke out, they left the country to avoid arrest by agents of the U.S. Secret Service. In October 1900, he returned to the United States as the guest of Fiske Warren, a Boston-based officer of the New England Anti-Imperialist League. While in the United States, Lopez published numerous letters and essays and gave speeches in major cities with the help of local League branches. He became the Anti-Imperialist League's most direct and important contact with the Filipino independence movement and presented a Filipino position opposed to the U.S. conquest of the Philippines to the American public during the first difficult years of the war.
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Sixto Lopez
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Sixto Lopez, "Do the Filipinos Desire American Rule?," <em>Gunton's Magazine</em>, June 1902.
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1902
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Industrialization and Expansion (1877-1913)
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Expansion and Imperialism
Philippine-American War