VISUAL ACTIVITY Yellow Journalism Most cartoonists promoted war with Spain. Cartoonist Grant Hamilton drew this cartoon for Judge magazine in March 1898. It shows a brutish Spain with bloody hands trampling on a sailor from the Maine. Cuba is prostrate, and a pile of skulls represents civilians “starved to death by Spain.” © Collection of the New-York Historical Society, USA/The Bridgeman Art Library. READING THE IMAGE: What case does the cartoon make for why the United States should go to war with Spain? CONNECTIONS: How does the cartoon reflect American attitudes toward race in the late nineteenth century?