CARTOONS OF OUR WAR WITH SPAIN Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2016 https://archive.org/details/cartoonsofwarof100unse_0 FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY, PUBLISHERS, NEW YORK COPYRIGHT, 1898, BY JAMES GORDON BENNETT COPYRIGHT, 1898, BY FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY INTRODUCTION M y publishers have asked me to write something. This 1 have already done on every page, — in the picture language, in which alone do 1 feel that 1 can do my best. Ten years ago an old German editor in my native State, Ohio, said, “The cartoon will be the editorial of the future.” In this day of American journalistic enterprise, the cartoonist is often called on to make a cartoon in two or three hours and sometimes in less time. Do you wonder that we die young or become paretics ? If we do anything towards moulding public opinion, do not blame us entirely, but remember the editor, whose name does not appear on the cartoon. 1 do not believe in the bitter, stinging cartoon. It's always best to produce a laugh with your argument ; people seem to digest it better. I desire to acknowledge the courtesy of the New York Herald in permitting me to publish these cartoons in book form. CHARLES NELAN, With the New York Herald. worth a htmdred groans in any marketd — LAMB. KEEP YOUR HEAD COOL. MUST I GET OUT? / DON’T BOTHER THE PILOT. i ■ ■".W ;VS HE WOULDN’T BE HAPPY UNTIL HE GOT IT. ‘A*- IT BEGINS TO LOOK AS IF THESE GENTLEMEN AGREED WI TH ME. PEACE OR WAR? “WHERE AM I AT? “APRIL FOOL! A “SHELLING” FOR UNCLE SAM’S EASTER MONDAY. BEFORE AND AFTER TAKINCi— RESPONSIBILFFY. WELL, I’M WAITING NOW.’ A SNAP SHOT. RALLY ROUND THE FLAG. YANKEE DOODLE IN CUBA. TAKING HIS PULSE. BETWEEN TWO FIRE! THE PRESENT: TO THE STARS AND STRIPES DEWEY OPENED A NEW WORLD. WELL, WHO’LL BE NEXT? SPAIN’S DILEMMA. SATISFYING SPANISH HONOUR. INFORMATION WANTED. SHE’S TUMBLING ! JUST MISSED! COUSINS. WHAT ARE THE WILD WAA^ES SAYING?” BOTTLED. WILL HE ESCAPE IF THE WAR BRING NOTHING ELSE, WE ARE THANKFUL. THEIR FIRST DECORATION DAY. KEEP THEIR GRAVES GREEN. THE CONCERT OF EUROPE.” THE KING’S JESTER. HOW WILL HE FEEL WHEN THE PIPE GIVES OUT ? AND THEN ALONG CAME THE REAL KING. HE ISN’T HANDSOME, BUT HE COMES HIGH. WILLIAM, YOU’RE TOO LATE. U. S. : WELT., THE I'ATRIOTS ARE NOT ALL IN THE ARMY. I WONDER IF HE REALLY WANTS MY WHITE ELEPHANT.” A NNOUNCEMENT EXTRAOR I )1 X ARY. TROUBLES WHICH MAY FOLLOW AN IMPERIAL POLICY. “YOU’RE NEXT!” THE BOY STOOD ON THE BURNING DECK.’ YOUR ONLY SALVATION. BE CAREFUL. I NERO FIDDLED WHILE ROME BURNED. EUROPE; “MY GOODNESS, HOW HE IS MUTILATING THAT BEAUTIFUL MAP!” “GENTLEMEN, AS THE SPANIARD IN THE CAST IS BEHIND IN HIS LINES, THERE WILL BE A SHORT INTERMISSION.” BEFORE AND AFTER TAKING. UNCLE SAM FREELY TELLS HIS PHYSICIAN THAT HIS TREATMENT HAS BEEN A SUCCESS. TWO THINGS HE HAS LEARNED. DF THK ORCHESTRA. THIS ISN’T TOO MUCH FOR A GOOD THING, UNCLE SAM PAYS THE FREIGHT.