 | "He dared to go it alone." 1931. Illustration for the story, "The 'Fightingest' Man I Knew," by Major General Smedley D. Butler, about Sergeant Major Daniel Daly. Illustrated by James E. Allen. Caption: "Leaping to the Legation walls, Daly repelled with his bayonet the fanatical, blood-seeking Boxers who sought to scale them. And he was only a rookie, receiving his baptism of fire!" P. 82 description: "hordes of fanatical Boxers, furious, unreasoning, blood-seeking." Copyright holder unknown. In American Magazine, Sept. 1931, p. 34. 11.5.2 |
 | "Be Just - Even to John Chinaman," 1893. A judge says to Miss Columbia, "You allowed that boy to come into your school, it would be inhuman to throw him out now - it will be sufficient in the future to keep his brothers out." Note the ironing board and opium pipe carried by the Chinese. An Irish American holds up a slate with the slogan "Kick the Heathen Out; He's Got No Vote." Judge Magazine, June 3, 1893. In Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, The Distorted Image 1850-1922, 1973. 8.12.7 |
 | Song sheet cover, "The Heathen Chinee," printed in Cleveland, Ohio, 1870. Words by Bret Harte. Verses recount the attempt of Truthful James and his partner, Bill Nye, to cheat Ah Sin, a Chinese gambler, at euchre. Ah Sin, who pretends ignorance of the game, manages to cheat the would-be cheaters...It is sometimes said that Hart meant to satirize those who regarded Chinese as "peculiar" and untrustworthy, but that the general public regarded the verses as an expose of Chinese deceitfulness. The last stanza reads, "Which is why I remark, And my language is plain, That for ways that are dark, And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar, Which the same I am free to maintain." The Daniel K.E. Ching Collection, The Chinese Historical Society of America, 965 Clay St., San Francisco, CA 94108. In Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, The Distorted Image 1850-1922, 1973. 8.12.5, 8.12.7 |
 | "The Chinese Invasion." Montage of cartoons commenting on the anti-Chinese movement in San Francisco, and on the presumed desire of Chinese in New York to be servants, how they will replace the Irish, and how they will organize to insist "The Irish must go." 1880. J. Keppler cartoon. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC 20540. LC-USZ62-103143. In Mary and Gordon Campbell, The Pen, Not the Sword, 1970, p. 100. Cartoon from Judge. 8.12.5, 8.12.7 |
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