The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-02-11
NDAY MORNING.. FEB. IL.
shy ON the Chinese Question.
How the Importation of Chinese Cheap
Labor Affected the Corners Nasty, has.
com 81 Co. Move to Exterminate Them
The Result.

The Corners is agitated from centre to Cir
conference. The Corners hez bin invalid and
her dignity hez been sot on. A week ago last
Toosday horde of ignereat, degraded and
slavish Chinese arrived here, and pitched their
tents about mile from the village and went
calmly to work on the Crossroads 8 Secession.
vile Railroad. The circumstances wuz some.
thing like these: The nigg ers, which is the nat-
eral worker nv this region, refoosed to go on the
road, becoz they hev Their farms and things to
attend to, and the proud Cawcashen Nv coarse
refoosed to quit the comfortable fire at Bas-
CONS to engage 10 any menyel pursoot. Ez the
company hez to hev the road built by certain
time to sekoor State subsidy, the mersenary
and graspin directors sent to Caiforny and i'm
portid about four hundred heather, who in
their bindnis bow down to wood and stone.
We wuz warned in time. Two weeks ago
got this despatch:
RAT CATcHER's S'LooN. SAN Francisco.
10 Z. Y. Nasty, Labor Champien-Four hum
CRED godlisChinese on their way to the Corners.
These Pagans have undermined the religion
and labor Nv Californy, and are novin on Ken
lucky. They worship idols, and work for fifty
cents day. Wen be EFF We stand it, Kill
the cussed heather. Stanu up for labor and
religion.
PATSY MGoNIGLE.
JIMMY PETHRs
liverpool Pet).
TEDDY OLAFFERTY
proprietor Rat Pit)
SHAMUs O'SHAUGHNEssY.
Committee.
The frekenters NV Bascom's will never allow
this kind Nv al insult to their reliius feelins,
and demanded to be led again 'em to wunst,
that they mite make it lively for 'em. They
clinked their glasses in yoonison, and swore
that the Crnss.roads sh0ad uavcr ha lad with
heather, and the entire Corners rose ez one
man to compass their destrucshun.
Jist then the clarion voice Nv Bascom wuz
heard about the bowls nv the excited populis.
wait" sed he. "Do .nothin rash. Wait
and see whether them off-scourings intend to
spend their earniDs at my bar Eff they will
we must put up with their heathenism. Eff
not, the wrath Nv outraged community must
be visited upon them. In the meantime, let
trusty men 60 and see what plumber they hev
in their cabins"
went to interview them. They wuz all
digsin away at the sand bank. Selectin an
able-bodied one, l askt him wat his vews wuz
on the suvrinty Nv the States He made no
apser. How did he like the climate? He kept
on diggin. Wat wuz his noshen NV the silver
question? Still he dug. Wuz he supporter
nv President Hayes's policy? That fetched
him. He never stopped his ipfernal diggn-
the Corners, we stop work easy enuff-he an
sered without lookin up
"Meiikin man 60 =; Chinaman wolk fol
wages.
We waited pashently till Friday, and ez not
Chinaman among EN- he'd bin seen at Bias.
CONS that crate man consented to our movin
onto EN-. We found that they wuz workin al
fifty cents day, witch no Cawcashun resident
wood do for ten times the money, and wuz
keepin us out Nv employment We reasoned
to ourselves, wat chance there wood be for us il
the cheep labor Nv the OVERLOOKING East should
De piled In upon us in this way, and deter.
mined to resist this outrage on Amerikin labor
Issaker Gavitt got so excited about it that he
riz up rum the counter he wuz lyin or
and swore that for one be wood die in defence
nv labor; and Deekin Pogram, who wuz lyin
on a buffalo robe, rolled over into an easier DO
sshun and demanded wat the country wa
comm 70. Osptaln M'Pelter woke up and go
out Nv his chare and sged that ther wuz NJ
longer any room for American industry, and
that he wuz willln to resist EN- to the death
Bascom insisted that both on account of la.
Dor aud religion they ought not to be permitted
to rename. They never came to his bar or did
anyth1n that wuz civilized. Sich a set nv
heather wood undermine Amerikin insttoo
shuns in a year. Hev they anythin in Their
cabins to indemnify us for thus outragin ones
feelins?
We went for EN- that afternoon, but the ex
pedishn wuz disastrus. The superintendent
asked us wat we wantid. I ansered that e.
Amerikin citizens we he'd come to demand tina
the heathen element he he'd interdoosed be L
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forthwith we shood do it by force.
He LATED fendish laff, and sed that eff thu
Chinese wuz any wuss heather than the speci
mems he he'd seen sence he he'd bin in th
country, they he'd his profound sympathies
Ez he wuz nv the opinyun that ther coming
didn't interfere with any labor we wuz likely tf
DO, he wood give us j;st one mint to make
ourselves scarce, and be whipped out a revolver
nv the regler Joe Bigler size, and the othel
posses whipped out similar weepins and tht
Cinnamon xuffh &ha;. Oh
picks.
We retired to the Corners and held meetin
and passed resolooshens denouncin the heather
witch Is ez fur ez We hev got toward expellin u
But the Corners is depressed The labor ani
religious questions alluz does depYess the Cor
ners To hev inundashen Nv godlis heather
worshippin sticks and things, coming here am
takin the bread out Nv the mouths Nv me and
lssaker Gavitt, Captain M Pelter and Deekir
Pogram, by workin for mere pittance, is
suthin too horrible to think about We sit il
Bascom's every day from seven in the mornin,
to twelve at mite, dscussin and bewailn it
We cant help ourselves, and the country is OF
the brink of room. There is trouble ahed O