The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1878-01-23
THE LABOR PARTY.
What a Resident of the Big Mead
Ovs Has TO Say of the Organize
ton There

EDITOR SILVER STATE:--One month
ago there appeared in your columns an
article furnished you for publication by
the laboring and business men of the
! Big Meadows. Several communica-
tions have been published since that
time from that organization signed
"Laborer. 1t is but just to the
readers of your paper that they should
know
WHO THOSE LABoRERs AND BUSINESS MEN
ARE,
SO that they will be able to Judge for
themselves what this new party can do.
A letter came fIom Wiunemucca few
days ago eDqniripg how to 60 to work
to organize branch of the new party
in Winnemucca, the people there being
DESTROYS to take steps at once. Unfor-
tunately for Winnemucca, the letter
came addressed to gentleman not a
member. For his benefit, and others
that now believe the new party an ee-
plant or some other great monster,
will give true statement of its origin,
organization and members:
On December 10Th, 1877, a meeting
was held at one of the members resi-
dence; speeches were made, SO says the
article, by the Chairman and others
showing the danger to the country by
being overrun by barbarians. Now.
right here L wish it to be understood
that I do NOS advocate Chinese immi.
grafton; but say in reply, that ander
our laws at present. they should receive
protection the same as other foreigners,
and l never did believe in mob law.
nor do | uphold any acts that are not
consistent with law and order.
THE CAUSE OF THIS ANTI CHINESE MOVE.
MENT
1t will be proper to relate, so that your
readers may form some idea, and show
ing the danger referred to by the Chair
man and others. The man at whose
house this meeting was held had been
counting his chickens. or his.son had,
aud 10 and behold. forty in number of
the flock failed to make their appear
ance. At once a search was made in
and about the Chlnamen's dwellings
from basement to garrett, and not even
o feather found of the missing fowls.
A few days ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 10th
lS77--a peaceful Chin4mln named
Lung Kee. who has lived here a long
time. went into the Postoffice after his
mail. He was pitched upon by now
members of that organization, beaten
with clubs, and would have probably
been killed had he not drawn knife
about twelve inches long and slightly
run 1t into one of the mems body, who
screamed "murder!" and thsrest run
away, the Chinaman running to the
next house for protection. The news
of white man being cut by a China
man. spread like fire, aud soon the
house into which the CAinaman had
ran for safety was surrounded by a
large crowd, most of them now mem
bers, crying out, kill himi kill him! :"
and would have rushed in at one O: the
back doors had not gentleman from
sacramento told them to wait little.
until an officer of the law would take
him In custody. This all took place
before the arrival of the west bound
passenger traio, the house being we'll
guarded outside, having not less than
five outside doors. The arrival of the
train threw them it seems. off their
guard, aud the Chinamau made his es
cape. On the train arrived the Deputy
Sheriff. who being informed of the af-
fair, searched the house but found no
Lung Kee. Search would have been
continued had not the Postmaster, who
Is one OF our square men. and good
citizen, told them in plain words that
the whi3e men were to bame--that he
told them to let the Chinaman alone
that he came after his mail, and not.
withstandiug his argument they rushed
out after the Chinaman, and then took
place what l have just related. This