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This document provides historical context and analysis of political cartoons from the Philippines during the American colonial period from 1900 to 1941. It discusses the background of the author, Alfred W. McCoy, and the historical context for the cartoons. Ten cartoons are then summarized, focusing on their commentary on issues like corruption, public health, land rights, and inequality. The document contributes to understanding Philippine history by showing how the cartoons conveyed editorial commentary on politics and events during American rule and provide insight into the conditions in the Philippines at that time.

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Activity 8 History

This document provides historical context and analysis of political cartoons from the Philippines during the American colonial period from 1900 to 1941. It discusses the background of the author, Alfred W. McCoy, and the historical context for the cartoons. Ten cartoons are then summarized, focusing on their commentary on issues like corruption, public health, land rights, and inequality. The document contributes to understanding Philippine history by showing how the cartoons conveyed editorial commentary on politics and events during American rule and provide insight into the conditions in the Philippines at that time.

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1.

Background of the Author


Birth: 1945, Massachusetts,
U.S.A.Citizenship: United States of America.

Dr. Alfred W. McCoy is professor of SE Asian History at the U. of Wisconsin at


Madison where he also serves as director of the Centre for SE Asian Studies. He's
spent the past quarter-century writing about the politics & history of the opium trade.

2. Historical background of the document

Philippine Cartoons: Political Caricature of the American Era, 1900-41

Philippine political cartoons gained full expression during the American era.
Filipino artists recorded national attitudes toward the coming of the Americans as well
as the changing mores and times. While the 377 cartoons compiled in this book speak
for themselves, historian Alfred McCoy’s extensive research in Philippine and American
archives provides a comprehensive background not only to the cartoons but to the
turbulent period as well. Artist-writer Alfredo Roces, who designed the book, contributes
an essay on Philippine graphic satire of the period.

3. Content presentation and analysis of the important historical information found


in the document

10 Cartoon selection

1. Death Cars (Cartoon #6) – The cartoon was showing an illustration of commentary
about the unprecedented cases of colorum automobiles in some city street. This
illustration shows fatal accidents involving colorum automobiles such as taxis and
jeepneys that occurred too often already.

2. Where the mosquito is King (Cartoon #4) - A public health advisory on the
outbreak of mosquito-related disease in the Philippines and the handling of the control
of the board of health.

3. While the priest live alone in a Big building (Cartoon #3) - The cartoon tells the
government to confiscate the large priest’s residence attached to Santa Cruz parish
church. People are congested at the Plaza Goiti and Plaza Santa Cruz while the single
priest sits in a sprawling residence.

4. New Bird of Prey (Cartoon #2) – The cartoon illustrated the fate of a local
newspaper publication after an editorial attacking a high ranking official in the Philippine
Commission (Closure of the paper and selling of its assets due to libel case)

5. Liberty, Equality, Fraternity (Cartoon #5) – The cartoon shows a mocking editorial
about authorizing active and retired legislators to bear firearms. Sarcastically, the
Manila Press went outraged. They stated that those people in authority must then be
respected!
6. Is the police force Bribed? (Cartoon #1) – The cartoon depicts the first of Manila's
periodic police scandals during the American era. It is the work of Fernando Amorsolo.
The cartoon illustrates Chinese racist for they are described as corruptors or opium
smugglers.

7. A new wrinkle in the Art of Thieving (Cartoon #8) – The cartoon shows city
capitalist using torrens title process, which required relinquishment of customary claims
to issue titles, to grab lands in Nueva Ecija, and other Central Luzon Provinces.

8. What’s going to be done about it (Cartoon #9) – The cartoon depicts that after
Philippine National Bank collapsed, the Filipinos was forced to tighten its credit
operations. Then, many of the sugar planters in Negros protested. Banks, due to the
financial stringency, turn a deaf to all the appeals.

9. Is this is what we are payting for (Cartoon #7) – When manila is being sink into a
miasma of corruption, vice and mismanagement. The Political Thuggery escalates. The
editorial pointed out that the gangster or terrorist carries more political influence than an
honest man.

10. Equal Work, Unequal Salary, Why (Cartoon #13) – This catoon exudes the fact
that there is low salary of the Filipino teachers in the Philippines. There are teachers
who complain about their salary despite having graduated into international universities
and being qualified into civil service examination.

4. Contribution and relevance of the document in understanding the grand


narrative of Philippine history

In the Philippines) the presence of political cartoons has been seen as early as
the publication of Kalayaan and La Solidaridad. Since peoples sensitivities are captured
immediately through images the popularity of cartoons has risen throughout the years.

The Political cartoons are important in conveying editorial commentary on


politics, politicians, and current events that is happening in the Philippines that time.
Such this political cartoons play a role in the political discourse of a society that provides
for freedom of speech and of the press. One of the important aspects of this cartoons is
that they show the current conditions of our country during the American colonization.
Another important aspects of the cartoons is that they show a direct visualization of the
horrors of corruption, war, and inhumanity of Americans that time.

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