Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1870-08-05
HARP Uv ERIN S'LooN,
SIXTH WARD, Moo YoRK, :
July sln. 1870.


run up to Moo York last week on spec
ial biznis. l saw in noospaper that seven.
ty6ve Chinese he'd located themselves in
North Adams, Massychoosits, and th' rem
saw q gleem Nv LIE for the Dimocrisy.
Here, sed to myself, is richnis! Here is
wat wunst more will FIRE the Dimccratic
heart and rouse Dmocratic ,ndigna.ion.
The Dimocrisy must alluz hev an inferior
race, and now, that we've lost the niger,
Providence steps in at the nj, K Nv time AID
furnishes us the Chinaman.
Immeji,ly on my arrival l sought out the
Dimocra,ic Central Committee Nv our ward,
aud called meeting Nv ''all labrin Ameri-
kans NV the 9th Ward opposed to the intro
duckshen Nv form pauper labor into Amer.
Ky" Teddy Organ, wich runs the Sham
rock S'loon next door to mine, and Dennis
'Shanghnessy, and Pat Flynn, and Jem-
my O'Fallon, and Terrence McCoole, and
Jenny O. Brien, all Nv EN- runnin s'loons in
the block the Harp Nv Erin is located in,
entered into the matter with spirit. We're
rivals in biznis, but, thank Heaven, in pol
tics we kin act together ez unit, Our
interests are identikle.
We tried to git some shoemakers and
brick masons and sich 10 attend the meet
in, but they all insistid they wuz too bizzy.
In the evenin the meeting was convened
in the back room Nv the Harp Nv Erin, Ted
DIV O'Ryan in the chair, and Dennis
O'Shaug hnessy thar tender for Pat
O'K-efe,) Secretary. A Committee on Res
ou,,ons was appointed. consistin Nv Jenny
OFallou, Patsey McShane, and Jimmay
Sheahan.
The Chairman remarkt that The comm Nv
the barbarous Chinese to the E ,stern States
he'd filled him with profound alarm. Ez a
labrin man be sollumly protested agin bring.
in form pauper labor to these happy shores
to compete with us. With all his sole he
protested agin this importashun Nv poverty
driven fnrriners to Amerky. He hoped the
meetin wood do its dooty in this matter.
He wood interduce to the meetin Mr.. Jean
JACQUES Pierre La Tourette, a gentleman
NV North Adams, Massychoosets, where this
outrage ayin Ame,ikiu labor wuz bein per-
etrated.
Mr.. La Tourette riz and ad'lrest the meet
in in French, ez he coodent speak English,
he hevin bin in this country only ten mouths.
We procoored Frenchman who could
speek English. who translated him for our
benefit. Mr.. In Tourette remarkt that the
principal thing labrin men he'd to contend
with wuz imported pauper labor. The Chi
nese wich he'd bin adventid in North Adams
wuz inferior race wich Good live on moth.
in and Good consekently work tor nothn.
They he'd none Nv the habits and tastes Nv
civiizashen. They did not drink likker in
fact one of them, Ching Choy didn't know
wat lkker wuz. (EXpreshun NV DISGUST
from the entire assembly, One hundred
NV his people he'd bin indoost ten months
ago to come to the Yooni,ed States from
Lower Canada by the promise Nv ekal rites.
Them with emigrated with him from Low
er Canndy hedn't anythin pertlckeler to eat
in that country and sill less to wear; IN
fact the half NV EN- wuz being supporild by
the parish authorities We come to the
Yoonited States, the manufacturers payin
our fare Oh the railroads, eXpectin to find
land Nv good wages and plenty. What hez
bin the result? Why Jest ez we he'd jined
the Crispins and established who should and
Who should not labor in North Adams, and
likewise wat wages shood be paid, and how
they shood be p,id hut before we got con-
mol NV the books of the concern, we are
confronted with forrin pawper labor brot
from forrin shcre, and we are out in the
cold. Mr.. Ls Tourette remarked that when
he had sed "we.' he spoke Of his associates.
He didn't labor himself-he was friend OF
humanity, whose business it was to organize
labru men agin the encroachments OF capl-
tai.
Dennis O'Shaughnessy, our Sekretary,
wanted to know what wages was paid them
ienerent Chinese.
Mr.. La Tourette answered, about y cts.
per day, wich anser, es it wus considered
essential to put on record. rote down 81
Mr.. O'Shaughnessy's early education he'd
bin neglected. ''Good Lord!' ejackilated
Teddy Ryan, "thats only two drinks and .
6nh! We want no sich labor es that"
Father McGrath, after givin motifs that