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"Civilization Begins at Home."

A cartoon in the New York World derided President McKinley’s claim to “uplift and Christianize” the Philippines, graphically portraying the racial terrorism occurring in America’s own backyard.

Source: Charles Green Bush, New York World, November 1898—American Social History Project.

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