CSotD: Sunday Classic: Happy St. Patrick’s Day from Thomas Nast

What the Irish Roman Catholic Children will be told to do next: "Kick it out Peaceably."

(The controversy in 1872 was teaching of Protestant religion in public schools, to which Catholics objected. Nast's frequent attacks on the Catholic Church in general and his depictions of the Irish as ape-like brutes made him understandably unpopular in their circles)