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This cartoon is a commentary that was published on the eve of the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act, signed into law on May 6, 1882, by President Chester A. Arthur.

The cover illustration of Puck shows a man wearing a hat labeled "Oregon" giving Chinese men a "Hobson's choice."

Created during the time of heightened anti-Chinese sentiment, the comic depicts Uncle Sam kicking a Chinese immigrant off a dock.

Uncle Sam. "We, as a nation, are not responsible; it is the State; and as the murders were all committed by unauthorized foreigners, you should go to their native lands for indemnity."