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As requested by President Roosevelt, C. W. Watson sends his reasons for supporting a resolution before the National Convention regarding eventual independence for the Philippines.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-04-29
Uncle Sam holds down the lid of a “Colombia” barrel as he speaks to “Panama,” who holds a “Panama Canal” bag and wears an “independent dress.” The sun has President Roosevelt’s face in it. Caption: Pickaninny Panama: “Don’t yo’ reckernise me in mah new clo’es, Uncle Sam?” Uncle Sam: “Recognise you, Child? Well, reck’n I’d know that bag anywhere. (Persuasively) Hadn’t I, ahem? better—er—carry it for you, Honey?”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-11-22
In a speech, Jacob Gould Schurman, President of Cornell University, spoke in favor of independence for the Philippines and advocated for the government buying the land owned by the friars and selling it back to the Filipinos.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-12-23
Cornell University President Jacob Gould Schurman advocated in a speech for granting the Philippines independence, and buying land from the Spanish friars and reselling it to Filipinos.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-12-23
The Lexington Leader prints Secretary of War William H. Taft’s speech at the Lexington, Kentucky auditorium in its entirety. He discusses at length the question of race and its relation to political participation. Taft details the differences between President Roosevelt and William Jennings Bryan and appeals to Kentuckian Democrats to evaluate their party alliance.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-08-22
President Roosevelt hopes for a “resolute effort” to pass the Philippine tariff bill.
Massachusetts Historical Society
1903-02-24
Secretary of War Taft defends American rule in the Philippines. He states that the islands will be held for the benefit of the Filipinos but that this situation can also be economically beneficial to the United States.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-04-21
Puck’s stereotyped Irish man labeled “Ireland” is pictured as a military general, sitting on a rocking horse labeled “Home Rule,” holding papers that state “Muster-Roll of the Anti-English Army,” and addressing a ragged group of soldiers labeled “Germany, Russia, Venezuela, Japan, Transvaal, [and] Ashantee.” Uncle Sam is standing among the soldiers. John Bull, in a state of shock, is standing on a small island just offshore. On the ground next to the rocking horse is a box labeled “Servant Girls Home Rule Contributions.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1896-02-12
A monkey wearing a military uniform holds a sword labeled “Clan-na-Gael” and a flag that states “No Peaceful Solution! War!” The monkey stands on soil labeled “United States,” looking across the “Atlantic Ocean” at a lion dozing on ground labeled “Great Britain.” At the monkey’s feet is a cup labeled “To Free Ireland,” with a tag that states “Servant Girls Please Contribute.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1895-10-23
A future Fourth of July celebration is depicted where women have gained suffrage and equality. Young and old women ring a bell labeled “Equal Rights.” A notice on the bell tower states “Strike Out the Word Male.” Women emerge from underground and participate in a procession, marching under banners that state “United Order of Matinee Women” and “Higher Culture Division.” The procession passes two statues, one of a woman holding a rolling pin labeled “Erected to the Memory of the First Woman Who Wore Breeches” and the second of an eagle wearing a bonnet, labeled “The American Bird is a Hen Eagle and Lays Eggs. [?] Blake Sculp.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1894-07-04
Uncle Sam, John Bull, and figures representing Germany, Italy, France, and Russia listen as a town crier labeled “Sagasta” reads a proclamation. “Blanco” plays a drum. The proclamation states that Spain’s war with Cuba will end “next Thursday afternoon at half past four,” or in “two weeks,” or “we shall positively end it sometime or other.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1897-11-24
President Cleveland, at the helm labeled “Congress” of a yacht labeled “Repeal,” races against British Prime Minister William E. Gladstone who is holding an oar labeled “House of Commons Majority” and piloting a boat labeled “Home Rule.” Gladstone’s boat has a broken spar and is bumping up against debris labeled “Opposition of the House of Lords” floating in the water. Caption: “Home Rule” is a good boat, but “Repeal” gets over the course a good deal quicker.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1893-09-27
Uncle Sam, a teacher, stands behind a desk in front of his new students who are labeled “Cuba, Porto Rico, Hawaii, [and] Philippines.” The students do not look happy to be there. At the rear of the classroom are students holding books labeled “California, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, [and] Alaska.” At the far left, an African American boy cleans the windows, and in the background, a Native American boy sits by himself, reading an upside-down book labeled “ABC.” A Chinese boy stands just outside the door. A book on Uncle Sam’s desk is titled “U.S. First Lessons in Self-Government.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1899-01-25
Uncle Sam stands on a platform next to a ballot box where three men are casting their votes. One man is labeled “Loyalist” and is voting for the “Monarch”; the other two are casting votes for “Autonomy” and the “Republic.” In the crowd, at the base of the platform, are the flag of Cuban independence labeled “Republic,” a flag labeled “Autonomy,” and the flag of Spain labeled “Monarchy.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1898-05-04
Cuban General Máximo Gómez sits on a horse, listening to an eagle perched on the U.S. Capitol building singing “the song of freedom.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1898-05-11
A female figure labeled “Cuba,” holding the Cuban flag, is caught in a frying pan labeled “Spanish Misrule” that is being held above flames labeled “Anarchy” raging between fighting factions labeled “Insurgents” on the left and “Autonomists” on the right, on the island of Cuba.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1898-05-11
An elderly woman labeled “Spain,” possibly María Cristina, Queen Regent, struggles to maintain control of two diminutive figures, one labeled “Cuba,” armed with a gun and sword, and the other labeled “Philippine Islands,” armed with a crude hatchet and knife.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1896-11-18
Charles Parnell wears a tiara and sits on a throne, with many Irishmen bowing before him and placing bags of money into a container labeled “Parnell Fund.” On a table next to him are papers labeled “Remission of Rents” and “Assassination Absolution.” Sitting on a throne on the left, unattended by anyone, is Pope Leo XIII wearing the papal tiara and looking on with dismay. At his feet, on the left, is a basket of papers labeled “Indulgence” and “Absolution,” and, on the right, a container labeled “Peter’s Pence” that appears to have been broken into and emptied.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1883-06-06
In a kitchen, a petite woman implores her muscular Irish cook to continue in her duties. The cook shakes her fist in defiance.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1883-05-09
At center, Theodore Roosevelt kidnaps the “G.O.P.” elephant (this figure can be rotated 180° to show Roosevelt being kidnapped by the “G.O.P.”). Around this image are vignette scenes showing, on the left, Edward “Carson” kidnapping Ulster from “Home Rule Ireland,” a man with a movie camera who has lassoed theater-goers at the entrance to a theater labeled “Drama,” and a man wearing suit and top hat labeled “Prohibition” kidnapping the Statue of Liberty; and on the right, a British suffragist carrying a policeman labeled “The Law,” a newspaper labeled “The Calamity Howl” howling as sheaves of wheat labeled “Bumper Crop” carry off an infant labeled “Business,” and a woman labeled “Dame Fashion” kidnapping a corset.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1914-08-08