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# "The Foreign Fiend" - The Judge, January 24, 1885 This political cartoon depicts an anarchist or radical socialist agitator (center, with distinctive pointed ears/horns suggesting demonic association) stirring up American workers. The figure holds a barrel labeled "BEER" while brandishing weapons, flanked by two working-class men. Behind them looms a document listing socialist/communist concepts including "DEATH TO CAPITAL." The caption—"American Workingman: 'I strike for bread, not for blood!'"—frames the satire: respectable workers seek fair wages, while foreign radicals cynically exploit labor discontent to promote violent revolution. The demonic imagery and foreign appearance suggest anxieties about European anarchist and socialist immigrants allegedly corrupting American labor movements. This reflects 1880s fears of radical foreign influence on domestic worker organizing.