Judge — April 16, 1898 — page 8: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This is a stark anti-Spain political cartoon from *Judge* magazine (copyright 1938, per the visible attribution). It depicts a massive cemetery filled with gravestones, prominently featuring "Maine Sailors Murdered by Spain" and signs reading "Over 400,000 Innocent People Starved to Death in Cuba by Spain" and "Awful Torture and Murder of Indians by Spain." The cartoon references Spain's colonial atrocities in Cuba and its historical treatment of indigenous populations. The 1898 USS *Maine* explosion—which triggered the Spanish-American War—is invoked to stoke American anti-Spanish sentiment. The sheer visual weight of hundreds of graves emphasizes the scale of alleged Spanish brutality, functioning as fierce propaganda against Spain, likely during or before the Spanish Civil War era when American public opinion divided over Spanish fascism.