Echoes
of Freedom
This
racist cartoon shows how far the stereotype of Indian immigrants in 1910
differed from the reality. Most immigrants were Sikh, and those Sikhs who wore
a turban usually wore a beard. It was almost unheard of for a turbaned Sikh to
smoke. And according to Dr. S. H. Lawson, ship surgeon of the Monteagle and the
Tartar, they were "one hundred percent cleaner in their habits" than the
European steerage passengers he encountered in his duties. "The Sikhs
impressed me as a clean, manly, honest race." From: San Francisco Call, 13
August 1910.
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