Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1870-07-22
Nasty.

[From the Toledo Blade.l
MIR, NAsBY GOES TO NEW YORK TO CALL
AND ENaINEER A rMEETINe OF LABOR
ING MEN IN OPPOSITION TO THE EMPLOY.
MRNT OF cHNBsE
.ir. HARP Nv ERIN s'LooN,
sixth WARD, Moo YoRK,
...t W' ''h' July 8, 1870. 81
IRuN up, to Moo York last week on
special biznis. / saw in a noosepaper that
seventy.f1ve Chinese he'd located their
selTe in North Adams, Massychoosits,
and therein / saw CLEAN Nv lite for the
Dimocrisy. Here, sed l to myself is
richnisl Here is what will wunst more
FIRE the Dimocratic heart and rouse Dim
ocratic indignation. The Dimocrlsy must
alluz hev an inferior race, and now that
we've lost the niger, Providence has
slept in at the nick ot time and furnishes
us the Chinamsn. sU= r.Ir
Immejitly on my arrival, sought out
the Dimocratic Central Committee Nv our
ward, aud called meetin NV "all labrin
Amerikens NV the 9th Ward opposed to
the interduckshen NV form pauper labor
runs the Shamrock S1oon next door to
mine, and Dennis O'Shaughnessy, and
Pat O'Flynn, and Jenny OFallon, and
Terrence McOoole, and Jenny O'Brien,
all Nv EN- runnin S'loons in the block the
Harp Nv Erin isflocated in, entered into
the matter with sperlt. We're rivals in
biznis, but, thank Heaven, in politics we
kin act together ez unit. Our interests
are identikle.
We tried to git some shoemakers and
brick masons and sich to attend the meetin,
| but they all insisted they wuz too bizzy.
In the evenin the meetin wuz convened
in. the back room Nv the Harp Nv Erin,
| Teddy O'Ryan in the Chair, and Dennis
| O'Shaughnessy Char tender for Pat
| 0Keefe) Secretary A Committee on
| Resolutions was appointed, consisting NV
Jenny O'Fallon, Patsey McShsne, and
Jenny Sheeney. % ~ ~, ,s ~
The Chairman renarkt that the comm
Nv the barbarious Chinese to the Eastern
States had filed him with profound alarm.
Ez labrin man he sollumly protested
agin bringin fotrin pauper labor to these
happy shores to compete with u.s. With
all hiz sole he protested agin this impor-
tashun Nv proverty driven FORMERS to
Ameriky. He hoped the meetin wood do
its duty in this matter. He would inter
dOoce to the imeetin Mr.. Jean Jacques
Pierre La Tourette, a gentleman OF
| North Adams, Massychoosets, where this
outrage agin Amerikin labor was bein
| perpetrated, as .s..
MIR. La Tourette riz and addrest the
meetin in French, ez he coodent speak
English, he havin been in this country
only ten months We procooreda a French.
i man wich Good speak English who trans
lated him for our benefit. Mr.. La Tour.
ette remarkt that the principal thing
la0orin men he'd to contend with wuz
imported pauper labor. The Chinese
wich had bin adventid in North Adams
wuz a inferior race wich Good live on
nothin and Good consekently work for
I hethin. They had none Nv the habits
and tastes Nv civilizashen. They did not
drink likkers : in fact one Nv EN-, Ching
Choy, didn't know what likker wuz.
(Expresshun nv disgust from the entire
assembly, One hundred Nv his people
he'd bin indoost ten months ago to come
to the Yoenited States from Lower Can.
ady by the promise.uv ekal rites Them
wich emigrated with him from Lower
Canady hedn't anythin in pertikeler to cal
In that country, and still less to wear in
fact, the half Nv EN- wuz bein supported
by the parish authorities. We came tC
the Yoonited States, the manufacturers
paying our fare on the railroads, expect
ing to find land Nv good wages and
plenty. Wat hez been the resultY Why
D.. Jest es we he'd all jined the Crispins, anG
| established who shood and who shood moi
labor in North Adams, and likewise wal
wages shOod be paid, an how they
should be paid, but before we go
b. control nv the books NV the concern, we
are confronted with forrin pauper labor
brought from forrin shore, and we are
out in the cold. Mr.. La Tourette re
marked that whenihe sed 1--WE" he spoke
ny his associates. He didn't labor his
self-he wuz friend of humanity, whose
biznis 1t wuz to organize laborin men agir
the encroachments Nv capital
Dennis O'Shaunnessy, our Secretary
wanted to know what wages wuZ paiC
them ignersnt Chinese.
| Mr.. La Tourette answered about 2!
cents day, wich anser, ez it wuz consid
cred essenshel To put on record, wrote
down, ez Mr.. O'Shaughnessy's early edu
casnen he'd bin neglected. "Good Lordr
I ejackilated Teddy Ryan, "that's only two
drinks and a fifth We want no sich Ia
4 Dor ez that" i'.
| Father McGrath, after givin notice thai
next Sunday beautiful gilt image of st
Boniace, wich he'd bin presentid hi
church, wood be displayed for the adora
shen Nv the devout, demanded that the
most stringentest laws should be passeC
Nv heather and idolators He bleeved il
religious tolerashen, but the ijeee NV 1
4 JOSS house bein erectid in Moo York filled
\ him with alarm, and he wood prevent
by all the law. -... 3. ..
Jenny O'Fallon reported the followir
TesOlo0shens ...r..l s4s .f--..-.
II MAREAs, Certin blotid aristo Gratis in Massey
chOo=its hev impoItid tgnerant and degraded Chi
nese to lake the place NV the abrers in that State
and
II WAREAs,s The leaders nv the DImocrasy NV No,
Il York IL the espesal champions Nv labor, therefon
by the leaders nv the Dimoerasy nv Moo York b.
ResoIUed, Thai the Dmocrasy hez alluz hel,
that free labor if the safeguard nv AmeriKin lib
erty, 'ceptin south Mason & Dixon's line
where II heE auz seemed TO that labor shooC
be owned BY the most dominantest class, ,.t
ResOiUed, That the import ashen nv forrn pau
per labor into Massychoosts is an inYashen nv th,
rites nv the Ameridn labriD east wieh shood bere
eistid 10 the death. (Cries nv Good for yez
Jenny" BE dad Wen all vote for lhotp "Le
Jenny o. Falon alone for putin q thing natelyl'
And nnder The excitement OF the moment, lh
assemolage all tined in singln The Wearin a
the Green ceptin Le ToureIte, who burst out int,
the Mafseillase hymn. lH- 10. .Hi- ...
RssOlDed, That to the end that labor in thi
country may be free and unrestricted, we cOunse
our friends in North Adams to imejtlykill all tn,
Chinese, ana all others who consents 10 work will
EN-.
Resdved, That Ameriky hez bin the refuge IL,
the opprest nv all nashuns, and ez we are deter
mined thpt IL shall alluZ be sich we prOtist agiI
any Chlnese comm IN on any terms Wateyer.
Letters endorsin wot we shood do fol
the coz Nv labor wuz reeeVed from Hon
John Morrisey, Hon. Benjamin Wood
Hon. Fernandy Wood and other distin
guished friends NV labor, -y.-.,-...,.o,
=. Patsy McShane commenced speech or
the heenousnis NV importin paupef labor
tsaich wood hey he'd good ,effeck, bu
Johnny McQuade, witch don't like him
interrupted by aslin him how long ago i
wuz that he and all his brothers an(
cousins wuz taken out NV work hous,
in Ireland and he'd their fare paid to.thi
country by a raleroad company, lnC
whether. when he landid he he'd decen
rag to his back or a clint in his pockit
Mr.. McShane retorted by wantin TO know
{ eft the McQuades livery mothers son uV
EN-, hedn't bin in the same fix. The ar
gyment wuz concloodid by the two clin
chin, and in mint the entire asscmblagC
md lut .t,,I "a 4