# A sop to Cerberus - Gillam - Chester A. Arthur

- By: Bernhard Gillam
- Date: 1882-05-17
- Classification: Print
- Credit line: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. https://www.loc.gov/item/2012647203/
- Museum: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_sop_to_Cerberus_-_Gillam_-_Chester_A._Arthur.jpg)
- Rights: Public domain
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/commons/thumb/7/7b/A_sop_to_Cerberus_-_Gillam_-_Chester_A._Arthur.jpg/1920px-A_sop_to_Cerberus_-_Gillam_-_Chester_A._Arthur.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Political cartoon showing Chester A. Arthur offering a "Bill Excluding Chinese for 10 Years", in the shape of a Chinese man's face, to a three-headed Cerberus labeled "Western Vote" with the heads labeled "Demagogue, Hoodlum, \[and\] Irish". At Arthur's feet is a basket labeled "Sops for Everybody", and he holds a rope behind his back labeled "2nd Term Aspirations". The Cerberus is guarding the narrow path through the forest to the White House labeled "1884", which shines in the distance. Originally published in the humor magazine Puck in 1882, after President Arthur signed the Chinese Exclusion Act.