New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-07-26
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MIR. Nasty Goes to New York to Call an
Engineer a Meeting Of Laboring Me
in Opposition to the Employment
Chinese.
HARP Cv ERIN S'L0oN,
Sixth Ward, Moo York,
July s. 1870.
l run up to Moo York last week on speci
biznis. l saw in o nOOsepaper that sevent,
five Chinese he'd located themselves in Mort
Adams, MASSACHUSETTS, and therein saw
gleem NV life for the Dimocrisy. Here sc
q / to myself, is richnis Here is wat wuns
more will fire the Dimocratic heart an
rouse DimOcratic indignation. The Dime
crisy must alluz hev an inferior race, an
now that we've lost the niger, Providenc
steps in at the nick Nv time and furnishe
us the Chinaman.
Immmejitly on nv arrival l sought on
the Dimocratic Central Committee NV ou
ward, and called meetin Nv ''all labriI
Americans Nv the 9th Ward opposed to the
introduckshen Nv form pauper labor into
Ameriky" Teddy Organ which runs the
Shamrock Sloon next door to mine, and
Dennis OShaughnessy, and Pat O'Flynn,
and Jenny O'Fallon, and Terence McCOole,
and Jenny O'Brien, all nv EN- runnin
s'loons in the block the Harp of Erin is
. located in, entered into the matter with
spirit: We're rivals in biznis, but, thank
Heaven, in politics we kin act together ez a
a unit. Our interests are identikle.
We tried to git some shoemakers and
brick masOns and SIGH to attend the meetin,
but they all insistid they wus too bizzy.
In the evenin the meetin was convened in
the back room Nv the Harp Nv Erin, Teddy
O'Ryan in the chair, and Dennis OShaugh-
messy (bar tender for Pat O'Keefe), Sekre-
tary. A committee ON resolutions was APP
pointed, consistin Nv Jenny O'Fallon, Pat
sey McShane and Jimmy Sheahan. '--
The Chairman remarkt that comm NV the
barbariOus Chinese to the Eastern States
had filed him with profound alarm. Ez a
labrin man he sollumly protested agin
bringin form pauper labor to these happy
shores to compete with us. With all hiz
sole he protested agin this impOrtashun Nv
poverty driven furriners to Amsriky. He
hoped the meetin wood do its dooty in this
matter. He wood interdoocs to the meetin
Mr.. Jean Jacques Pierre La TOurette,
gentleman NV North Adams, MASSACHUSETTS,
where this outrage agin Amerikin labor wuz
bein perpetrated
Mr.. La Tourette riz and addrest the
meetin in French, ez he coodent speak Eng
Esh, he hevin bin in this country only ten
months. We prOcoored a Frenchman witch
Good speek English, who translated him for
our benefit. Mr.. La Tourette remarkt that
the principal thing labrin men he'd to con-
tend with wuz imported pauper labor. The
Chinese wich he'd bin adventid in North
Adams wuz a inferior race witch Good live on
nOthin and Good consistently work for
nothin. They he'd none Nv the habits and
lasts of civilizashen They did not drink
likker; in fact one of them, Ching Choy,
didn't know what likker WIZ (Expreshun
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 Canady by the promise NV ekal
rites Them witch emigratid with him from
Lower Canady hedn't anythin pertickeler
to eat in that country and still less
to wear; in fact the half Nv EN-
wuz being supportid by the parish au-
thOrities. We come to the Yoonited States,
the manufacturers payin our fare on the
railroads, expecting to find a land Nv good
wages and plenty. What hez bin the re-
suit! Why jest es we he'd all lined 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 paid, but before we got con-
troll NV the books of the concern, we are |
confronted with fOrrin pawper labor brot |
from forrin shore, and we are out in the |
cold. Mr.. La Tourette remarked that when
he had sed "we," he spoke of his associates
He didn't labor hisself-he was friend of |
whose business it wuz to organ
Ize labOrin men agin the encroachments of
capital.
Dennis OShaughnessy, our Secretary.
Eanted to know what wages was paid them
gnerent Chinese.
Mr.. La Tollrete ansered about twenty
two cents day, wich anser, ez it wuz con
,idered essential to put on record, l rote
iown, ez Mr.. O'Shaughnessy's early educa-
ion had been neglected. ssGOod Lord y,
sjackilatcd Teddy Ryan, 'that's only two
thinks and fifth We want no sich labor
q that" * ~ p .ssshi
Father McGrath, after givin notice that
lexteSunday a beautiful gift image of St.
wood be displayed for the alteration nv the
levout, demanded that the stringentest
avs should be passed preventing the i'm
nigrashun to this country of heather and
dOlaters. He believed in religious tolera-
ishen,- but, the ice of ss-house' being
rected in Moo York filed him with alarm,
nd he would prevent it by all the power
" the law. 1M 4,
WHEREAS, Certin blotid aristocrats in
MASSACHUSETTS, hev imported ignorant and
degraded Chinese to take the place nv the
a b0rers in that State; and
wnereas, The feeders NV the DimOcrisy
" MOO York Is the espeshl champions NV
" Moo York be it
hesotred, That the Dimocrisy hez alluz
ield mat free labor is the safeguard NV
liberty, ceptin south NV Mason &
Dlxon ilne, Wher II hez alluz seemed to us |
hat labor shood be owned by the most dom.
manifest class.
Resolred, That the importashen of forr;p
pawper labor into Massachusetts is an inv,-
SION NV the rites Nv the American lahr;n
class witch shood be resisted to the death ;;
'Cries OF Good for yez, jimmy 'Be
lad, we'll all vote for that!' LET JENNY
CFallon alone fol. putin thing nately -
And under the excitement NV the moment
he assemblage all .jined in singin' THE |
'Vearin' NV the Green" ceptin La Tourette,
who burst out into the Marseillaise hymn.)
Resolced, That to the end that labor in
his country may be free and unrestricted.
We counsel our friends in North Adams to
mmejily kill all the Chinese and all others
Who consents to work with en-.
ResOlred, That Ameriky hez bin the refuge
" the opprest NV all nashens. and ez we
rOtest agin any Chinese comm in on any
erms whatever.
Letters endOrsin wOt we shOod do for the |
OF NV labor wuz reserved from Hon. John
lorrissey, Hon. Benjamin Wood, Hon. Fer
andy Wood, and other distinguished
riends NV labor.
Patsy McShane commenced a speech on
ne heenousnls Nv importin pawper labor,
7ich wood hev he'd good etfeck, but
ohnny McQuade wich don't like him. in
arruptid by. askin him how long ago it wuz
hat he and all his brothers and cousins
Tuz taken out NV work-house in Ireland,
nd he'd their fare paid to this country by a
aierOad company, and whether when he
lndid he he'd a decent rag to his back or a
int in his pocket. Mr.. McShane retorted
y wantin to know if the McQuades, livery :
Others son Nv EN-, hedn't bin in the same ;
x. i
The argument WIZ conclooded by the two /
inchin, and in a mint the whole assem- .