"Every Dog Has His Day" (1879)

Two figures occupy the center: a Native American man in full regalia and a Chinese man in traditional dress. Behind them, a wall is plastered with hostile placards — "The Chinese Must Go," "Prohibit Chinese Immigration," "Laws Providing for Their Banishment," "Foreigners Not Wanted" — alongside older nativist slogans targeting the Irish and Germans. The caption delivers the argument: the Native American tells the Chinese immigrant that white America fears being displaced by him, exactly as it once displaced Native peoples. Nast, himself a German immigrant who had championed Black civil rights through Reconstruction, uses the cartoon to indict settler hypocrisy by turning anti-Chinese hysteria back on its authors.