The tables turned : you sabe him, Kealney must go.1877 or 1878?engPrint depicts Denis Kearney, a leader of the Workingmen's Party of California and an Irish immigrant active in the late 19th century who was known for his racist views about Chinese immigrants, behind bars in the San Francisco House of Correction, where Kearney was detained; a group of stereotypically drawn ethnically Chinese men mock Kearney in his cell holding various objects representing their employment, seafood, including a fish labeled "Black Friday" (after the stock market catastrophe that took place on September 24, 1869 due to gold speculation panic and initiated a state-wide depression in the 1870s), laundry, and cigars; baskets filled with fish on floor; "House of Correction, 181" on sign above prison cell doorTitle from caption below image.Other states of print in color.