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Identifier: historyofninetee01maur (find matches)
Title: The history of the nineteenth century in caricature
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Maurice, Arthur Bartlett, 1873-1946 Cooper, Frederic Taber, 1864-1937, joint author
Subjects: History, Modern Nineteenth century Caricature
Publisher: New York : Dodd, Mead
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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the efforts of Speaker Reed, who is freelyperspiring in his effort to hold down the valve. One of those cartoons which are not to be forgotten in aday or a week or a month; one which stirs the blood androuses the mind to a new patriotism even when seen yearsafter the events which inspired it, is Victor Gillams BeCareful! Its Loaded ! which appeared a few weeks beforethe outbreak of the Spanish-American War and which wedeem worthy of being ranked among the twenty-five or thirtygreat cartoons which the nineteenth century has produced.To realize to-day its full force and meaning one has to recallthe peculiar tension under which the American people werelaboring during the months of February, March, and April,1898. The Maine had been destroyed in Havana Harbor,and although, now that anger has died down, we can no lon-ger cling implacably to the belief, which was then everywhereexpressed, that it was an act emanating from the SpanishGovernment, at the time it was too much for our over- 330
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Q w< £ CENTURY IN CARICATURE 333 wrought nerves; the condition of Cuba was growing everyday more deplorable, and everyone felt that the inevitableconflict was hourly at hand. In the picture Americanpatriotism is symbolized by a huge cannon. A diminutiveSpaniard has climbed to the top of a mast of a Spanish vesseland monkey-like is shaking his fist down the muzzle. UncleSam, standing by the gun and realizing the Spaniards im-

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