--- title: '"The Aguinaldo Guard" (Puck, 1900)' url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/aguinaldo-guard-puck-1900/ description: Named American anti-imperialists are drawn as a ragged honour guard marching behind Emilio Aguinaldo, casting domestic opposition to the war as service… section: Collection --- [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) [!["The Aguinaldo Guard" (Puck, 1900)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/aguinaldo-guard-puck-1900.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/aguinaldo-guard-puck-1900.jpg) # "The Aguinaldo Guard" (Puck, 1900) Named American anti-imperialists are drawn as a ragged honour guard marching behind Emilio Aguinaldo, casting domestic opposition to the war as service to a foreign enemy commander rather than as a position on U.S. policy. - **Date:** October 17, 1900 - **Period:** [Pre-1914](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#era=pre-1914) - **Made by:** Puck magazine (Keppler & Schwarzmann) - **Region:** [North America](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#region=north-america) - **Country:** [United States](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#country=united-states) - **Medium:** [Cartoon](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#medium=cartoon) - **Issuer type:** [Media](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#actor=media) - **Regime:** [Mckinley Administration](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#regime=mckinley-administration) - **Leader:** [William Mckinley](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#leader=william-mckinley) - **Audience:** [Domestic public](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#audience=domestic-public) - **Purpose:** [Demonize](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#purpose=demonize) - **Themes:** [War and the military](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=war-military), [Elections and party politics](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=elections-party-politics), [Empire and colonialism](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=empire-colonialism) - **Event:** [Philippine American War](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#event=philippine-american-war) - **Techniques:** [Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) - **Source:** Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are - **Source:** [Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division](https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2010651338/), retrieved September 27, 2026 - **Rights:** Public domain (published in the U.S. in 1900; LOC: no known restrictions on publication) J. S. Pughe, "The Aguinaldo Guard", Puck v. 48 no. 1232, 17 October 1900, centerfold (Keppler & Schwarzmann); LC-DIG-ppmsca-25465 ## Text on the object Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` PUCK. THE GEORGE WASHINGTON OF THE PHILIPPINES [on the banner carried behind Aguinaldo's portrait] BRYAN [on the rider's hatband] DEMOCRACY [on the donkey's saddle blanket] PULITZER — TOWNE — [illegible, bearded marcher's hatband] — GODKIN — COCKRAN — MITCHELL [hatband labels on the marching figures, left to right] THE AGUINALDO GUARD. COPYRIGHT, 1900, BY KEPPLER & SCHWARZMANN. J. OTTMANN LITH. CO. PUCK BLDG, N.Y. ``` Each marcher wears a hat labeled with the surname of the real anti-imperialist or anti-expansion figure he caricatures (contemporary press identified figures such as Joseph Pulitzer, Charles A. Towne, E. L. Godkin, W. Bourke Cockran and John Mitchell in comparable Puck cartoons of 1900); one bearded marcher's hatband is too blurred at this resolution to read with confidence and is left [illegible] rather than guessed. Small text on the sword blade, if any, was not legible. 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