Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-03-01
The Latest Chinese Outrage.

Bret Harte in New York Spirit Of the Tlmes-l
twas nom bv the sun we had finished our game
And were passin' remarks goin' back to our CLAIM
Jones was eOuntn' his chips, Smith rslieVin MS
OF ideas that straight" should beat three Of
When johnson of Elko came yallopin' down,
With a look on his lace 'twixt q grin and irowh :
And he calls, drop your shoyels. and lace fisnt
For them Chinee, from Murphy's are eleanin' us
with their ching ring chow
And their chic colorOw,
They re bent upon making
The lolliest row.
Then JOnss-my own Pardnsr-lOOks up win a
IT'S Your wash bill !" seI he, and l answers "YOu
But sfore he could draw, or the others could arm
Up tumbles the Bates boys, who heard the alarm.
And yell from the hilltop, and a roar OF gong
Mixed up with remarks Ike mi yl'
Wong,h
And bombs. shells and crackers that crashed
Reye.ied in their S wsr-tOgs four hundred Chinese
Four hundred Uhinee'
We are eight, don't ye see
That made squareafty
To Just one o. we.
They were dressed in their best, but grievs that
Was largely made up of our own, to their shame.
And my pardners best shirt and his trousers vera
On a ,pelr AMI above him were tauntingly swung
Whil- that be Zgar Cley Lee, like a.coniurer sat-
Pullin' out eggs and chickens from Johnsons best
And Bates, game rooster part of their loot"
And all OF Smiths pigs were skyieslea 70 poot, ,
But the climax reached and lhed 10 nave uieu
Wnen my demijohn, empty, came down The NIL
Side
What once held the pride
OF Robinson County
Pitched down the hillside
Then we axed for a parley. When out of the din
To the front comes rocking that heather, All SIM
You owe dOwty dollse-me wsshee you camp.
You catchee my washee-me catchee no stamp
One dol ar hap dozen, me no catchee yet,
Now that aOwty dOllee-no habl how can gat
Me caichee you pisgee-me sellee Tor cash.,
II catchee me licee-you catchee no hash
Me belly good Shelf-me lebbee when can
Ne alice same halp pin Meican man:
But Mclean man
he washee him pan
On bottom side htllee
And catchee-how can ~
Are We men - says Joe Johnson, and list to this
Jaw
With, ut process of warrant, or color OF law,
Are we men ora chew here he gasped 10 his
For a stink-pot had fallen just out of his reach,
shall we stan here as Idle, and let Asia poL-
Her barbaric hordes on this civilized shore
Has the White Man no country Are we leit in the
larchs
And likewise what's gene oi the fstabilsheo
One man to four hundred is great odds, Own.
But this ycr'- White Men-lplaye 1t alone :"
And he sprsns up tho hiiisde-to stop MIN none
TIL ven from the top told a'whito Man was
White Man was there
We prayed he might spare
Those misguided heathens
The few clothes they wear.
They He'd and he followed, but no matter where,
They lod to escape him, the white Man was
there"
Til We missed first his voice the pine wooded
And We knew for the heathen, henceforth was no
hope.
And the yells they grew fainter whea Petersen said
1T simply was human to bury his dead"
And then with slow tread
We crept up. in dread
But found next to nothing
Alive there or dead.
But there was his trail, and the way that they
came.
When Jones drops his pick axe, and Thompson says
.Shoot'
And both Of 'em points to a cage of bamboo,
Hanging down from tree with label that swung
Conspicuous with letters in some foreign tCngue
Which, when freely translated, the same did sp-
Was the Chinese for saying "A White Man is
For as we drew
In anger and lear,
Bound hand and foot, johnson
Looked down with a leer!
In his mouth was an opium pipe-which why
He leered at us 80 with drunken-lke eeyei
They had shaved of his eyebrows, and tackled on
cue,
They had painted his face ofa coppery hue,
And rugged him all up in a heathenlsh suit,
Then softly departed, each man with his loot"
Yes. every galoot,
And All Sin, TO boot.
Had left him there hanging
Like rpening fruit.
At mass meeting held up at Murphy next day.
There were seventeen speakers, and each had his
say;
There we're twelve resolutions, that instantly pass
ed,
And each resolution was worse than the last.
There were fourteen petitions-which, granting the
same, .
Will determine what Governor hurphy's shall
name.
And the man from our District that goes up next
year,
Goes up on one issue-thHt's patent and clear
"Can the work Of mean,
Degraded. unclesn
Believer in Buddha
Be held a lioni"