Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-07-29


'ts .-oeF,,r ssis7 IHAHp " ERIN s'Ioos.., ed
4'fID' SIXTH WARD, Moo YORK,
'F -ege n hss}yesg Go0s duly g, 1870. -
"A RUN up to Moo York last week on
special biznis. I saw in noosepaper that
seyenty-fve Chinese he'd located their
selves in North Adams, Massey choosits,
and therein I saw CLEAN Nv lite for the
Dimocrisy. Here, sed to myself, is
richnis!n Here is what will wunst more
fire the Dimocratic heart and rouse Dim
ocratic indignation, The Dlmocrisy must.
alluz hev an inferior race, and now that
we've lost the niger, Providence has
slept in at the nick Of time and furnishes
us the Chinaman. .t,:., -f....,Ye.l ,,...f
iImmeiitly on my arrival, | sought out
the Dimocratic Central Committee Nv our
ward, aud called meetin Nv "aH labrin
Amerikens NV the 9th Ward opposed to
the interduckshen NV form pauper labor
into Ameriky" Teddy O'Ryan, witch
runs the Shamrock silicon next door to
mine, and Dennis O'Shaughnessy, and
| Pat O'Flynn, and Jenny O'Fallon, and
| Terrence McCoole, and Jelnmy O'Brien,
all NV EN- runnin S'loons in the block the
Harp Nv. Erin is located 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. Tf7iITo3 yfsft7i1E .-E 'S ~
We tried to git some shoemakers and
brick masohsa and SIGH to attend the rneetin,
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'Shaug hnessy = Char b tender for Pat
| ,O'Keefe) Secretary. A, Committee on
Resolutions was appointed, consisting Nv
Jenny O'Fallon, Patsey McShane, and
JemDy Sheeney. 80 ,,.r,,,,g
Z The Chairman renaarkt that the comm
| NV the barbarious Chinese to the Eastern
/ States had filed him with profound alarm.
| Ez a labrin man he sollumly protested
agin bringin forrin pauper labor to these
happy shores to compete with u.s. With
all hiz sole he protested agin this impor-
tashun, NV pEoverty driven FORMERS to
| Ameriky. He hoped the meetin wood do
/ its duty in this matter. He would inter-
dooce to the meetin MIR. Jean Jacques
Pierre La Tourette, gentleman uof
| North Adams, Massychoosets, where this
outrage agin Amerikin labor was bein
aperpeLrated. i0ds 9GiA 51S9 JE1I T5H'1io' .
MIR. La Tourette iriz and addrest the
meetin in French, ez he coodenG speak
English, he havin been in this country
only ten months We procoored q French
man witch Good speak English who trans.
lated him for our benefit. Mr.. La Tour.
cite remarkt that the principal thing
labOrin men he'd to contend with Wuz
! imported pauper labor. The Chinese
witch had bin adyentid in North Adams
wuza inferior race witch Good live on
nothin and Good consistently work for
| nothin. They had none Nv the habits
and tastes NV civilizashen. They did not
| drink ikker; 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 Yoonited States from Lower Can
1 adY by the promise NV ekal rites. Them
WITCH emigrated with him from Lower
1 Oanady hedn't anythin in pertikeler to eat
1 in that country, and still less to wear in
fact, the half NV EN- wuz bein supported
by the parish authorities. We came to
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 result I, Why,
Jest es we he'd all jined the Crispins, and
established who shood ard who shood not
| labor in North Adams, and likewise wat
wages shoods be paid an how they
4 should be paid, but before we got
| 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 when he sed eve" he spoke
Nv his associates. He didn't labor his
| self-he wuz friend of humanity, whose
biznis it wuz to organize 1aberin men agin
the Entertainments Nv capital afa iFisa
/ Dennis O'Shaunnessy, our Secretary,
| wanted to know what wages wuz paid
them ignorant Chinese 81 f9s0' il'" teitf ga
! Mr.. La Tourette answered about 90
cents day, witch anser, ez it wuz consid-
cred essenshel to put on record, IWrote
down, ez Mr. O'Shaughnessy's early edu-
| casher he'd bin neglected. s'Good Lordr'
ejackilated Teddy Ryan, "that's only two
drinks and a fifth We want no SIGH Ia
Dor eZ that '7''f 5As'.'' a'' =
Father McGrath, after givin notice that
/ next Sunday beautiful gilt image OF st.
| church, wood be displayed for the adora-
shen NV the devout, demanded that the
most stringentest laws should be passed
| preventin the irnmigrashcn to this country
NV heather and idoIators. He bleeved IN
religious tolerashen, but the ijeee nv a
| Joss house 'bein erectid in Moo York filled
him with alarm, and he wood prevent it
I1by all the law. a5ei -
| Jenny O'Fallon reported the fellowin
resolooshenss: Taxu4TuakxzA x31Be1 81
| WAREAs, .Certin blotid aristocrats In Massey
choosits hev imported ignefa Mt and degraded Chi
lese to take the place Nv the laDrers in that STATE
and ,e,,f,ass 1.-,,,.,
'WAREAs, The leaders NV the Dimocrasy. uv' Moo
York is the espeshl Champions NV labor, therefore
| by the leaders Nv the Dimocrasy nv Moo < DIRK be
| Resogued, Thai the Dimocrssy hez aaluz he
that free labor is the safeguard NV An1eflk1k II o.
| erty, 'csptin south NV Mason d Dixon's line,
where i. hez alluz seemed to us that labor shood
be owned by the most domnantest class, g ,zlii -
Resol0ed, That the importashe1 NV forrln pau
per labor into MassychooEis is an iDyashen NV the
rites NV the smcriin labra class wien shood be re-
sistid to the death. (Cries NV Good for yez.
Jenny l''s Be dad we'll all vote for thOti Let
Jenny O. Fallon alone for putin thing nately p
And under the excitement OF the moment, the
assemblage all jlned in singin :. The Weafin nv
the Green, cepIin Lie ToErette, who burst out into
: Resolued. That to the end that laber in this
country NAV be free and unrestrietid, counsel
our friends in North Adams to imejitly kill all the
Chinese, and all others who consents 20 Work wlth
em.;s sa.y 90 tssfs
| RESOLVED That Amsriky hez bin the, refuge tuy
mined that it shall alluz be SIGH, we protest agin
any Chinese comm in on any terms Watevef.
irr Letters endorsin wot we ahood do for
thescoz Nv labor wtlz rseeyed from Hon.
John Morrisey,i Hon. Benjamin Wood,
Hon. Fernandy Wood and other distin-l
gt1ished friends Nv labor. d" o"' 1'- ''''
Patsy.McStane commenced aspeeehon
the heenousnis NV importin pauper labor,
witch wood hev he'd good effeck, but
Johnny MeOuade. witch don't like him,