Weekly Trinity journal., 1879-04-05


speech, with perfect freedom of action
within the law. You are not serts to
lords, nor villeins to the soil. You owe
no military service to feudal chieftain,
nor are yoI drafted to the armies of the
State. You are not subject to exactions
by taxation. You are in every sense
freemen and citizens of free republic.
If you cannot prosper in this country,
it must be for one of two causes either
God has given you no sense or it is be-
cause you are idle and unenterprising.
If God has not given you the proper
modicum of brains, it is His fault, and
not the fault of the American nation or
its laws. If you are idle and unenter-
prising, it is your own fault. We did
not create you, and we can not recreate
you.
If you do not like this country, then,
in the name of heaven, why don't you go
back to that you came from? If wages
are inadequate here, return to your peas
ant homes in Germany, where women
are yoked with steers to plow; go back to
Belgium, where women drag carts with
dogs; go back to Ireland, to France, to
Scandinavia; to the plains Of Lombardy,
where women WELD the mattox; to Por-
tugal, where women hold wooden plows,
and where you are liable to do military
duty. Go back and tell your country
men and countrywomen that in a land
of inexhsustible fertility, where farms
were free, whore religion was honored, +,
where education was within the reach of
all, where mines, and forests. and fisher
les were open to the world, where the law
protected all, and where you were cloth
ed with the sovereignty Of citizenship
that you could not make q living. Go
back and starve, and die, and rot. Be
cremated, be damned, be anything, ard
give US rest from this insufferable,
never-ending din of beer drinking, whisky
guzzlng, pitch seven-up foreign born
politicians.
AS Americans, we are sick and tired of
it. We are angry at the inso!ence Of
your demands. Yeu are accustomed to
the argument of kings, and in your ig
ORANGE you are unfit to be freemen. There
fore. we ask the spectacle, the prosper
Gus, the contented, the reasonable of your
own countrymen to unite with US. in or.
der that we may silence your clamor,
aud relegate you TO your proper positions
You, an ignorant mob of unwashed for
egners, would teach Americans their po-
Utica duties. You, propertyless mass
| of unskilled laborers, who are too idle
and too vicious to earn your beer and
whisky-you demand Of us division of
our earnings, and cal! it Commun ism
You would overthrow our laws, and style
it Nihilism. You would level all bar
rers of society, break down all distinc-
tions of class, and this is the sand-lot's
idea of Socialism. You would steal the
money you have not earned, and call il
Agrarianism.
Now, my dear adopted German and
Irish fellow citizens of the sand lot, lei
us again take up the Simiie of the ass
You are the asses, and ] am the speaking
one that Balaam bestrode. Let us dis
cuss the Chinese question, remembering
all the time that am mule and thai
you are donkeys.
Have we-imported jackasses that we
are-have we any right, or does it be-
come us, to dictate to the American peo
pie what other animals they may import
We are natives Of Central Asia. Some
naturalists think our wild ancestors be-
longed to Africa. SO, then, we are nc
better than Africans or Cinnamon; anc
being foreigners ourselves, coming tC
the country by the invitation of Ameri
cans, with what sort Of reason. propriety
or decency, shall we set ourselves up tC
say that A fricans and Chinese shall no
come to the country because they arr
more patient, will stand harder knocks
work more hours, bear heavier burdens,
and live upon meaner food than we?
Remem Der, / am not addressing you
now as Germans or Irishmen, but as
jackasses. l am not comparing you, my
dearly adopted fellow-c ctizens, TO these
unfortunate animals; am only using the
simtle to illustrate how utterly absurd
and ncons stent it is for one kind of wild
animal to kick another out of The pasture
to which all have been admitted by the
same kind of invitation.
And now-again dropping the stn1tte-
let me ask you, German and Irish work
ingmen, if the American citizens of Cal
iforna are not doing all they can to lid
the State of the Chinese, and to prevent
more from coming? Are they not doing
it in your interest, and for your benefit
Have not both political parties, all the
Christian churches, all the respectable
clergymen, the entire press, the Cham
ber OF Commerce, delegates in both
houses of Congress, the Senate and Leg
islature of California, the Mechanics
Institute, State and county conventions
the people in public meetings, the Gov
ernor Of the State, and Mayor of the city
the Board of Supervisors, the Health
Office, the Police Department. men OF
eminence, everybody, everywhere, under
all circumstances, at all times when OPP
pertunity presented, have they not hon
estly worked to solve this Chinese pro
\ blem7
You know they have, and you know
they have made great progress. And
you know that your insane threats, your
violent and illegal conduct, have injured