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Here's a Pretty Mess!" (In Wyoming.)
In the 1870s and 1880s, 153 anti-Chinese riots erupted throughout the American West with beatings, murders, and massacres.
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Chinese Satircal Diplomatist: "There's no doubt of the United States being at the head of enlightened nations!"
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Chinese Satircal Diplomatist: "There's no doubt of the United States being at the head of enlightened nations!"
Hobson's Choice - You Can Go or Stay
The cover illustration of Puck shows a man wearing a hat labeled "Oregon" giving Chinese men a "Hobson's choice."
How John May Dodge the Exclusion Act
Created during the time of heightened anti-Chinese sentiment, the comic depicts Uncle Sam kicking a Chinese immigrant off a dock.
If We Were Enough of a Nation to Demand, - We Ought to Be Enough of a Nation Now to Pay
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."