“The Mortar of Assimilation–And the One Element that Won’t Mix”
C. J. Taylor in Puck, June 26, 1889.
This Harrison-era cartoon charges that Irish immigrants are violent, and care more for supporting Irish independence than becoming fully American. The Irishman here wears a sash “Blaine Irishman,” a term for Irish who deserted the Democracy for the GOP in 1884 and 1888. Both Blaine and Harrison ran strong anti-British (and thus pro-Irish) campaigns.
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