"Racist" Cartoon Blog #4

This cartoon shows Uncle Sam reluctantly allowing in an immigrant, who's drawn with all kinds of qualities seen as threatening to U.S. life, including desegregation, Sabbath, poverty, disease, and anarchy. "Can I come in?" asks the immigrant in the caption. Uncle Sam replies, "I suppose you can. There's no law to keep you out." Being that this cartoon was in 1896, it was accepted as normal, but in todays society, this is considered racist because Uncle Sam is hesitant about letting this man in. America is known as the "Melting Pot" of the World so we are supposed to be accepting, which is why some classify this as racist. In the late 1890's and early 1900's, America faced a huge problem of immigration.  It escalated from 3.5 million to 9 million. This can be a reason to why many Americans held this belief.