Political Cartoons

This cartoon is showing President Roosevelt shoveling away the protesters against the Panama Canal.  This shows that Roosevelt didn’t care that people did not want to be in the Panama Canal, and making him seem like a tyrannical figure.  This leads me to believe that the artist was unhappy with Roosevelt’s actions.

This cartoon is trying to show the gluttony of America towards obtaining new land, and trying to convey that the situation has become excessive.  It is also showing how other countries want be on friendly terms so they do not become next, especially with the confident face on Uncle Sam.

The cartoon is showing that America is being very forceful with the territories.  They even try to draw similarities with England’s style of colonization with the blackboard in the back of the classroom. This is to say that we have become the thing we once fought against.