The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-08-18

| uuVernlshe0 news from one parV Oh tne
! Union to the other.
Excuse me, didn't Intend to ridicule
| the Associated Press to- night hut after
J receiving that copy of the San Franciec9 o
! Chronicles bold, outspORen newspaper
thisses and applaRse,} I could not help
| saying this.
don't care, of couree, how look. That
is my business, and nobody else's. pay
for my clothes. 1t is free country l can
| wear what please. As to ungrammaticaf
sentences and ungrammatical speeches, for
| two dollars and half in greenbacks can
always hire man to write gram matlcai
! speech. 1t takes millions of dollars to buy
| an honest man, be he ever 30 ungrammat
ical (applause)
|"CLAssICAL THIEVES AND LEGAL PIRATES"
Ard while on that strain, let me state
| that the country ia run to perdition by a
band of classical thieves and legal pirates
| Now, what the workingmen want (and
eight tenths of the community are work
ipgmen}- what the workiHgmen want for
their guide ia common honesty and com
| mon sense I will guarantee that these
arc better guides than classical talent or
legal learning. / refer you to the past
history of this country to corroborRte that
statement.
Says this paper /: OfKearney, he looks
like the average Irish workingman." That
is good. / will state as to that, that i am
an American citizen. l have lived in this
country and sailed under the starry banner
for nearly twenty years of my life; and,
furthermore, l came to this country with
suit of clothes upon my back, and head
full of brains to help deV elop the country.
want any man to point me out single
American that brought 30 much to the
country daughter and applause.)
s'In Boston he has been received hy
delegation of loafers. He has made his
fret speech, and is to- night in the bosom
of his family" etc. "Iu the train which
brought him here he rode, not with de-
spised aristocrats (that ia the only Truth in
the Gespatch,) but in democratic smok
ing car, entertaining diney clay pi!e."
Now that il n lie. / never smoked tobacco
or drank weiskey in my life (app!anse.)
The papers Of tie city nt Boston treated
me better than ttat. Even the journal
cf the "b!ue boods" gave fairer report.
Fello'S citizens, i mention these facts
to show you and impress upon your minds
the necessity of ignoring all newspaper
reports, and principally reports sent by the
Associated Press-a band of pirates.
WHAT WAS DONE IN CALIFORNIA.
1t will be we'll for you to know some of
the issues that drove the Democratic thief
and Republican robber out of sight in CAL
ifornia. The workingmen of California
were being oppressed. The capitalist
thief and land pirate of California, instead
of employing the poor white men of that
beautiful and golden State, sent across to
Asia, the oldest despotism on earth, and
there contracted with band of leprous
Chinese pirates, brought them to California
and used them as knife to cut the tbroats
of the honest laboriBg men of that State.
A Cinnamon will live on rice and rats.
They will sleep hundred in room that
one white man wants for his wife and fam
lily. Some years ago the workingmen
became alarmed, and every man for the
fftnan that alantaA
the political platforms was elected upon
an anti Chinese plank. They used it to
| elevate themselves into Office, and after
obtaining power they looked upon the
sovereign people with contempt.
Well, California, I suppose, like Massa-
| chlsctts. is foil of Utopian theorists-men
| who are always wandering among the
stars. They are talking about ''the sun
and the moon being veiled in the clouds !"
That has nothing to do with a working
mans stomach. We had considerable
| trouble at the outset to keep such men
down. We called upon the honest men OF
| Caiiforuia TO pool their issues-put all the
| issues in one pot together and cover it up,
and then we worked together t. capture
| the State of California, and whenever a
political hummer popped up in our midst,
| like u oOb tailed bull in a clover field, we
cut him off We chopped his head off anu
| turned him out of the hall We were
vigilant, active, and energetic. We al
lowed no men to address any of our meet
ings but homes, bard tisted men applause
We elected udAe to the CoDstitutionaI
| Convention bat poor, obscure artizans.
We elected men from the cooper's shop,
FROM the tailor's shop, from the ptow and
from the carpenters bench, over the heads
of Senators, ex Governors, millionaires and
bank smashers, by 75 600. majority. Our
majority in the city of San Francisco was
from 500 to 2, ,00G, in voting population
of % 600 The Democrats and Repubii
cans combined po!led $500 votes. Aud
then the capitallsts tried to enter a wedge
of dissension in our ranks, and they also
put a workingmen's ticket in the field. 1t
pol!ed twenty four votes mention this,
friends, to show you how vigilant the work
iDgmen were in California.
We had TO fight hard for the free
dom of speech in California. The men
who were elected by the citizens of that
commonwealth to represent them, instead
of aiding their constituents in reorgani zing g