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title: 'The Ill-Fated Sister: A Case of Unjust Discrimination (Puck, 25 April 1900)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/puck-ill-fated-sister-puerto-rico-1900/
description: Chromolithograph by Louis Dalrymple in Puck, 25 April 1900 (v. 47, no. 1207, centerfold).
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** 1900 Puck cartoon with period racial caricatures of a Hawaiian and a Puerto Rican woman. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

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# The Ill-Fated Sister: A Case of Unjust Discrimination (Puck, 25 April 1900)

Chromolithograph by Louis Dalrymple in Puck, 25 April 1900 (v. 47, no. 1207, centerfold). Uncle Sam and a woman labelled 'Hawaii' ride past a woman labelled 'Porto Rico' in a carriage lettered 'Free Trade'; a discarded paper on the road is partly legible as a message to Congress. The cartoon appears to criticise the way Congress treated Puerto Rico's trade compared with Hawaii's by contrasting two women in one frame, and uses period racial caricature in drawing both women. It selects one contrast out of a larger tariff dispute ([[card-stacking]]).

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
PUCK
HAWAII [on the hat]
FREE TRADE [on the carriage]
PORTO RICO [on the standing woman's cloak]
[dropped paper, partly legible:] ...MESSAGE TO CONGRESS ... OUR PLAIN DUTY
THE ILL-FATED SISTER;- A CASE OF UNJUST DISCRIMINATION.
COPYRIGHT, 1900, BY KEPPLER & SCHWARZMANN.
```

The wording on the dropped paper is only partly legible; the transcription gives the words that can be read.

[← McKinley's Easter Egg (Puck, 18 April 1900)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/puck-mckinleys-easter-egg-1900/) [Take Your Choice (Judge, 12 May 1900) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/take-your-choice-1900/)

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