The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1878-02-12
THE LATEST CHINESE OUTRAGE.

THE LATEST CHINESE OUTRAGE
Itwas noon by the sun; we had finished on
! And was passin' remarks goln' back to on
claim;
; Jones was eouulin his chips, smlth-relieyin
OF ideas that straight" should beat "thre'
OF n kind"
When johnson, Of Elko, came gallopin' down
With look on his face 'twixt grin and !
frOwn.
And he calls Drop your shoyels, and face
right about
For them Chimes from Murphys are eleanln
US out
With their ching ring chow
And their chic colorow
They're bent upon making
The jolllest row"
Then Jones-my own pardner-looks up with
ITS your wash bill, seq he, and answers
"You lieln
But afore he could draw, or the others could
arm,
Up tumbles the Bates boys, who heard the
| alarm.
Aud yell from the hill top, and roar Of a
Mixed up with remarks like "Hil yI Chang-a
| wongl"
And bombs shells. and crackers that crashed
through the trees
| Revealed In their war-togs four hundred
Chimes,
-Four hundred ChInee
We are eight don't ye see!
That made q square fifty
To just one o we.
! They were dressed In their best, but grleye
that the same
Was largely made up Of our own, to their
shame,
Aud my pardner's beet shirt and his trousers
were hung
90 spear, and above him were tauntlngly
swung;
While that beggar Cley Lee, like u conjurer
sat,
Pulln' out eggs and chickens from Johnson's
best hat;
And Bates game rooster was part of their
And all OF Smiths pigs were skyledged to
boot,
But the climax was reached and liked to
have died
When my demijohn empty, came down the
hillside;-
Down the hillside
What once held the pride
OF Robinson county
Pitched down the hillside,
Then we aNed for parley, When ont of the
To the front comes rocking that heather,
All Sin.
You owe nowty doollee-we washee you
camp.
You catchee my washee-mc catehee no
stamp:
Dee dollar hap dozen. me no catchee vet
Now that fiowty dollee--no hab' how can getl
Me catchee your piggee-me .elles for cash.
II catchec me licee-you catchee no 'hash;
We belly good Shelif-me lebbe when can,
Me allie same halp pin as Mclean man!
But Mclean man
lie washee him pan
On bottom side hillec
Aud catchee-hog cam
Are We meni" says Joe johnson, land list
10 this jaw
Without process Of warrant or color OF law
Are we men ora chew!"-here he gasped In
bis speech
For a stnk-pot had fallen Just ont Of his reach
shall We stand here as Idle. aud let Asia pour
Her barbaric hordes on this civilized shorei
Has the White Man no country Are We left
In the lurehi
And likewise what's gone of the Established
church,
One man 10 four hundred il great odds. / own.
But this yer's a White Mani plays IL alone"
And he sprang mp the hillside-to stop him
Till yell from the top told white Man
was there"
A White Man was there
We prayed he might spare
Those misguided Heathens
The few clothes they wear.
They ned. and he followed. no matter where. |
They fed to escape him, the white Man was |
there.
TIL we missed fret his voice on the pine
wooded slope,
And we knew for The Heather heucefoTth was \
no hone.
And the yells they grew fainter, when Peter
sou said
1T simply was human 10 bury his dead.
Aud then with slow tread
We crept up. Ia dread.
But found next 20 nothing
Alive there or dead.
But there was his trail, and the way that they
came.
And yonder no doubt, he wa. bagging his
game
When Jones drops bis plckaxe. and Thomp
son SAYS ''Shoo J"
And both Of 'em points 10 cage Of bamboo,
Hanging down from tree with a label that
swung
Conspicuous. with letters In some foreign I
tongue
Which. when freely translated, the same did
appear
Was the Chinese for saying: "a White Man
is here"
for AZ We draw near
In anger and fear.
Bound hand and foot. johnson
Looked down with 4 lesr
10 his mouth was an opium pipe-which was
why
He lcered at us 40 with a drunken-liks eye,
They had shaved of his eyebrows, and tackled
on cue
they had painted his face Of a eoppery hue,
And rigged him all up in a heathenish suit.
Then softly departed each man with his
loot"
Yes. every galoSt.
Aud All Sin. To boot,
Had left him there hanging
Like hpenlng fruit
n mass-meetlng held up at Muphys
next day.
There were seventeen speakers, and each had
bis say:
There were twelve resolutions. that Instantly
passed.
And each resolution was worse than the last;
There were fourteen petitIons-which. grant-
log the same
WIN determine what Governor Mnrplys
shall name.
And the man from our district-that goes Up
next year.
Toes up on one issue-that's patent aud clear;
Can the work of a mean,
Degraded, unclean.
Believer In Buddha
Be held as a lien?
Bret Harte In The Spirit Of the Times