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# Analysis of Life Magazine Page 488 This page contains two distinct pieces: "The Glory of Britain" (a patriotic poem) and "Letters of Henry to His Brother" (satirical correspondence by Poultney Bigelow). **The Right Cartoon:** Depicts "Emperor William" (German Kaiser Wilhelm II) being kicked or propelled by what appears to be Uncle Sam (American figure on left). The caption states "I MEANT NO HARM TO YOU AT MANILA" with references to Manila, Samoa, and Venezuela—locations of late-1890s American-German diplomatic tensions. **The Satire:** Bigelow's letters mock German attitudes toward America, referencing West Point graduates, the Spanish-American War, and American military organization. The cartoon illustrates American frustration with German imperial ambitions in the Western Hemisphere, particularly in the Philippines and Caribbean during the competitive imperial period of the 1890s.
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188 The Glory of Britain. Written in commemoration of the recent capture, by the British, of a lager wherein were six men and a hundred and fifty women acting as cowboys. INDS of the world, give answer, and shout of the glory of Who have For who c ‘They ha attered the might of Britain's arm across the seven seas ; n sneer at their courage and who revile them, when gobbled up eightscore women and a half a dozen men? What matters it if four huodred Boers carried Majuba Hill, Or a hundred and fifty thousand men are chasing a remnant still? not a corps, in scorn of the Boer, capture a cattle-pen With a hundred and f y women and a half a dozen men? Now, what to us is the fearful price that staggers humanity, Since the glo ‘itain’s arm's upheld for all the world to see? While the Light Brigade is cast in the shade by the brave exploit of those Who stormed the pen like chivalrous men, in the face of their feminine foes. Marcin Willite. Letters of Henry to His Brother. SOME MARCONI MESSAGES CAPTURED, EDITED AND OTHER- WISE EXPURGATED FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF INTERNATIONAL CONCORD. BY Pouttney BiceLow, M.A., F.R.G.S. Author of “History of the German Struggle for Liberty, ete. de. AY EIN LIEBER WILHELM:—No, a meiner bester Bruder, I shall not be homesick in New York.—L have been look- ing over the list of people who are to receive me—I find plenty of comfort there—just listen to this music, Guccexnet, $ ‘The Mayor is a German—or at least a Dutchman—and that is alles eins—all the same—it will be all the same in a few years. lis name is Lowe, or Lorwe—the distinction is merely academic. New York used to bean Irish city—now, like Suastese, it is within the Ger- man sphere. The predecessor of Loewe was also a Detcnman or Gera, at least in name (Wycxore, I believe). I could not discover how far he was Germanic by birth, but I know he hated Excianp and took the right view of the Born war! TRAUSS. Nothing has been omitted to make my stay pleasant. There had been an Exottsit Boss in Yous called Crox sort of Douzet Prestpest—he was not a friend of ours, yet pre- tended to be a friend of the Borns—well, my friend _Lorwe has expelled him fror for the whole term of m shall like Lorwe. M. Order of the Red Eag! I take him the Vierter Klasse ? Rosenvett is also one of us—einer von Uns—a schneidiger Kent, T hear—I get conflicting accounts of him. We don’t seem to have anything just like it here—er ist so eteeas ganz apartes—he seems to be a lawyer by trade, a writer by choice, a politician by profes- sion, a ranchman by way of recreation, and President by predesti- nation. Er ist ein Herrscher von Gottes Goaden—he is like you, ‘LIFE: mein lieber Bruder — he is a strange act of Gop, 1 hear that when the S| out he was at a desk in Wasuixctox con- nected with the Navy —a sort of Unterstaats secret ium fuer Marine Angelegenbeiten. At one bound and with a piercing yell—mit einem Sprung—he leaped to the head of the whole United States Army, stormed the Spanish breastworks, kept the officers and men of the Regulars from wavering, and. in short, accomplished by inspiration what our officers and men attain only after a life of experience in the field. Dieser Roosevelt ist ein Mordskerl—ein Bluecher —ein Napoleon! I shall enquire more particularly into this. Do you remember an American Military attaché in Betty called Evans? He told me that the great generals of the Crvit war were graduates of a military school called West Post —a sort of Kriros Scucie and Licuterreipe combined. I guess Evaxs was bragging ~- Americans are awful braggards — haben Gottloses Maul! Evans said that only because he graduated at West Point! graduate of West Pott seems to have been employed in the Spanish war— [am told that the heroes of that war are named Siarten, ALGER, Conwix, Mites, Eoax—the rest are newspaper ebrrespondents. None of these graduated at West Point —which proves conclu- sively that military education is a drawback to warlike character in Amer! Gorr sei Dank Rosenfeld is now President —that will save me much travel—when | shall have seen him I shall have seen all there is worth seeing of the Amer We have nothing like him at home. He organized a regiment of Journalists (Grossartiger Gedanke !}—called them Rough Writers! That is what they call over there You must try something of the same kind. More in my next. Your loving Herrin. army ! nerican humor ! Emperor William: 1 MEANT NO HARM TO YOU AT MANTLA. “ . ” SAMOA. VENEZURLAs comicbooks.com