Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-08-04

spoke OV MS aS6OclateS. ne OlOu't
laber hisself-he wuz a friend Nv hui
manity, whose biznis it wuz to or
ganize labrin men agin the encroch-
ments NV capital.
Dennis O'Slaughnessy, Secretary,
wanted to know wat wages them
ignorant Chinese received.
Mr.. La Tourette ansered about %
cents a day, witch anser. ez it waz
considered essenshel to put on rec
ord, wrote down. ez Mr.. Onslaught
nessy's early edikashen had ben
neglected.
"Good Lord!" ejakilatcd Teddy
Ryan, "that's only two drinks and a
fifth! We want no SIGH laber ez
that"
Father McGrath, after givin motifs
that next Sunda a butiful image ov
st. Boniface, witch had bin presented
his church, wood be displayed for
the adorashen NV the devout, de-
manded that the most stringent laws
should be passed preventin the i'm
migrashen to this cuntry NV hethens
and idolators.-He believed in re-
ligus tolerashun, but the ice Of a
joss-house bein erected in Moo York
filed him with alarm, and he wood
prevent it by all the power ov the
law.
Jenny O'Fallon reported the fol-
lowin resolushens:
Whereas, certain blotid aristokrats
in Massachusetts hev importid ig-
norant and degraded Chinese to take
the place NV the laberers in the
State; and,
Whereas, the leaders ov the DIM
ocrasy of Moo York is the especial
champions of laber; therefore, by
the leaders Nv the Dimocrisy ov Moo
York, be it
Resolved, that the Dimoekrisy hez
alluz held that free labor is the safe
guard wv Amerikin liberty, 'ceptin
south NV Mason an DixOn's line,
where it hez alluz seemed to us that
laber shood be owned by the most
dominant class.
Resolced, That the importashen ov
forren pauper laber into Massachoo-
sets is an invashen NV the rites NV
the Amerikin labrin class witch shood
be resisted to the deth.-(Cries NV
"Good for yez, Jemmy!" "Bedad,
we'll all vote for that" 'Let Jem-
my O'Fallon alone for puttina thing
natelyw And under the excitement
ov the moment, the asemblige all
jined in singin "The Wearin NV the
Green" cepting La Tourette, who
bust out into the Marseillais hymn
Resolred, That to the end that
laber in this cuntry may be free and
unrestricted, we counsel our trends
in North Adams to immejitly kill
all the Chinese, and all others who
consent to work with EN-.
Rcsolred, That Ameriky hez bin
the refuge Nv the opprest NV all ma
shuns, and ez we are determined
that it shall allez be sich, we protest
agin any Chinese comm in on any
terms watever.
Letters endorsin wat we shood do
for the coz NV laber wuz received
from Hon. John Morrissey, Hon.
Benz. Wood, Hon. Fernandy Wood,
and other distinguished trends NV
laber.
Patsey McShane commenced a
speech on the henousnis Nv importin
pauper laber, witch wood hev he'd a
good effeck, but Johnny McQuade,
witch don't like him, interrupted by
askin him how long ago it wuz that
he and all hiz bruthers and cuzins
wuz takin out ov a work house in
Ireland, and he'd their fare paid to
this cuntry by rale-road company,
and whether when he landid he he'd
a decent rag to his back or clint i'm
his pockit. Mr.. McShane retortid
by wantin to know If the McQuades,
livery mither's son Nv EN-, hadn't
been in the same fix. The argumint
wuz concluded by the too clinchin,
and in a mint the entire asemblige
wuz indulgin in ez butiful fife ez /
hev ever seen in Moo York. New
ertheless, good wuz accomplish, ez
we hev this laber movement fairly
on its feet.
shell 60 back to Delaware immij-
lily, for there is a movement NV
Importance thare witch is about to be
commenst. hev to draft an edreSs
to the Demockrisy of that Stste.
PETROLEUM Y. Nasty,