The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1878-02-28
NEW POEM BY BRET HARTE.
The Latest Chinese Outrage.

IT was noon by the sun we had finished game
And were pass;n remarks goin' back to claim
Jones was countin' his chips; Smith relievin' his
Of ideas that straight" should beat three of
kind,'
When Johnson, of Elko. came gallopin' down,
With look his face 'twi1t grin and a frown
And he calls, Drop your shovels and face right
about.
For them Chinese from Afurphys are cleanin' us
With their ching-a-ring-chow
And their chic-colorow,
They're bent upon making
The jolliest row."
Then Jones-my own pardner-looks up with a
'sIt's your wssh-bin," sez he; and I answers,
'' You lie"
But afore he could draw or the others could arm,
Up tumbes the Bates boys, who heard the alarm
And yell from the hilltop. and roar Of a gong,
Mixed up with remarks like "Hi 4! Chang-a-
And bombs, Shells and crackers, that crashed
through the trees,
Revealed il t,.eir war-togs four hundred Chinese!
Four hundred Chineei
We are eight, don't ye see :?
That made square fifty
To just one o. we-
They were dressed in their best, but gricve that
Was largely made up of own, to their shame,
And my pardners best shirt and his trousers were
On spear, and above him were tsuntlnely swung :;
While that beggar Cley Lee Ike conjurer sat,
Pulhn out eggs and chickens from Johnson's best
And Bates game rooster was part of their /" loot"
And all of Smiths pigs were skyiegled to boot;
And the climax reached and like to have
died
When my demiiohn, empty, came down the hill
Down the hillside
What once held the pride
Of Robinson county
Pitched down the hillside.
Then We axed for parley. When out of the din,
To the front comes a-rocking that heather, All
SIM
:. You owe nowty dollee-me washee you camp;
You catchee my washee-lne catchee stamp:
One dollar hap dozen, me no catchee yet;
Now that fowty dollee-no hab how can get?
Me catchee you piggee-me seIlee for cash
1t catchee me licee-you catchee no "hash;,
Me belly good Shelif-me lebbee when can;
We alice same halp pin as Mclean mani
But Mclean man
He washee him pan
On bottom side hiree,
And catchee-how can?"
we men ?r' says Joe Johnson, "and list to
without process of warrant or color of Iewg
Are we men or -achew!'-here he gasped in hts
speech,
For a stink-pot had fallen lust cut of his reach.
81 Shall we stand here idle, and let Asia pour
Her barbaric bordes on this civilized shore7
Has the White Man no country? Are we left in the
And likewise what's gone of the Established
Church 3?
But this yer's White Mani plays it alone ~
And he sprung sp the hilside-to stop him none
Till yell from the top told "whte Man WAS
thereI
White Man was there,
We prayed he might spare
Those misguided Heathens
The few clothes they wear.
They fed, and he followed; but, matter where
They fed to escape him, the g White Man vas
Till We missed first his voice on the pine-wooded
slope,
And We knew for the Heathen henceforth was no
And the yells they grew fainter, when Petersen
said,
(" 1t simply human to bury his dead"
And then with slow tread
We came up, in dread
But found next to nothing
Alive there or dead.
And yonder, no doubt, he was bagging his game,
wneo Jones drops his pickax, and Thompson says
Ard both of them points to cage of bamboo,
Hanging down from tree with a label that swung
Conspicuous, with letters of some foreign tongue,
Which, when freely translated, the same did ap-
pear,
Was the Chinese for saying: "a White Man is
here!"
For, as drew near,
In anger and fear,
Bound hand and foot, johnson
Looked down with a leerl
his mouth opium-pipe-which was why
He 1eered at us with drunken-like eyeI
They had shaved off his eyebrows and tackled on a
cue;
They had painted his face of coppery hue,
And rigged him ali up in heathenish suit,
Then softly departed each man with his loot
Yes, every galoot,
And All Sin, to boot,
Had left him there hanging
Like ripening fruit.
At mass-meeting held up at Murphy's next day,
There seventeen speakers and each had his
say;
There were twelve resolutions, that instantly
passed,
And each resolution worse than the last
There were fourteen petitions-which granting the
same,
Viii determine what Governor Murphy's shall
And the man from district-that goes up next
year,
Goes up on one issue-thats patent and clear:
80 Can the work of a mean,
Degraded, unclnan
Believer in Buddha
Be held as lien 2"
Spirit of the Times.