The correct answer to this open question is the following.
Although you did not attach the cartoon or any further reference, we can say the following,
If you refer to the cartoon that shows a Cuban woman over a frying pan, then, our comment would be the following.
According to this cartoonist, the worse fate would be Cubans the Cuban war against Spain for independence.
The cartoon's nabe was "The Duty of the Hour. To save her or not only from Spain but from a worse faith." The author was Dalrymple Louis.
The cartoon shows a Cuban woman holding the Cuban flag, over a frying pan that has the label "Spanish Misrule." Flames are below with the name of "Anarchy." At the bottom end of the cartoon are the Cican Insurgents fighting the Cuban Autonomists.
