Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-03-27
Mr.. Nasby Goes to Sam Francisco
to Get at the True 1nwardness
of the Chinese Question.
Toledo Blade.

March 10, 1879.
It's long trip over the vast noun
tains and stretched out plains that lay
between Kentucky and the Pacific, but
ez l he'd three gallons Nv Bascom's wust
witch, with occasional foragin on the
other passengers to exc out my supply,
managed to git thro tollable. Ez man
hez to drink some water to wash the
aIkili from his throte, he kin git on with
less likker than ez tho he wuz in his old
Kentucky home, where the inhabitance
hev never yit diskivered any pertikeleI
yoose for water. Immejitly on my ar
rival went to the headquarters NV the
Anti-Chinese AssosiaShen Nv the Tenth
Ward, and making myself known, to-
wunst asked for informashen and de-
mandid how l Good be Nv servis to EN-.
Dinnis O'Shaughnessy sed that he
hailed me ez sturdy helper in the great
coz Nv maintainin the rites Nv the OPP
pressed Amerikin, wich wuz bein threat
ened by the hordes Nv leprus Chinese
witch he'd ther hands already on the
throat of liberty. He
Jist then the sentinel at the door sung
out: Here comes a Johnny" and rush
wuz made. A heather wuz passin with
two baskits Nv cloze on the two ends Nv
pole, acrost his shoulder. In jaffy
the heathen wuz rollin in the gutter and
the clothes wuz divided among the As
sosiashen. The Chinaman run off yellin:
'Lilish man d-n smartee-got eileen
shlirtee first time in lifee."
Barney McGrath offered resolooshen
that Ameriky wuz made for Amerikins,
which Teddy O'Brien moved to amend
: b. substitutin the word "Irishmen," for
'Amerikins," which wuz voted down.
Barney sed he he'd ben troo Amerikin
ever since he landid, eight months ago,
and he shood die one.
Mr.. O'Shaughessy went on, after this
episode. He sed he kept nate and con-
vaynient lkker grocery, which wuz nsar
the Chinese quarther. He he'd bin in it
liver sence he kim over two years ago,
and he he'd never seen a Chinaman cross
his durestep. They earned great deel
Nv money but not cint Nv it goes for
( likker, and that wuZ one reason why
Amerykin liberties wuZ Threatened
Ther wuz another piece NV oppreshn.
They Good wash and cook ez well ez any
Oirish gurrl thOt iver kim from the ould
sod. They wuz low-minded beins who
wood sooner wash and cook than starve
or steal, and they he'd taxed the places of
more than 10000 Oirish gurrls in Frisco.
These gurrls he'd brothers to borry NV
EN-, there wuz the Church to keep up,
and how sood it be done with the Chinese
in the material places that belonged to the
gurrls.
Another Nv EN- coninw shouted the
outside sentinel, his face beamin with
delight and antissipashen, as he selected
couple Nv brick-bats, and hurried out
Nv doors
The aDproachin heathen wuZ a mean
speriti6 cuss, Tor the mint he see an able
bodied Amerikin boy with a brick, and
h3erd his war cry, "Tare an ounsp he
run eZ tho the avengin demon wuZ ahind
him. We sekOored his baskit, however.
but he he'd delivered his washin, and we
got nOthin else.
Victim his lips out Nv the Assosiashen
bottle, Mr.. O'Shaughnessy went on. The
neathen wuZ demoraliZin. For wun, he'd
never hey the temples NV heather god
set up in this Chrischen land. Ruther
than tolerate this, he'd bate the brains
out Nv livery dog Nv EN- that landid on
this soil. They wuz pizon ON industry
he wuZ heather and wuz death to re-
ligion, and he woodent adopt Amerikin
customs.
l never got any more Nv Mr.. O'Shaugh-
nessys views, for he he'd bin pullin with
CRATE steadinis and precision at the As
sosiashen's bottle, and, overcome, he set
tied gradually out of his chare, and went
into that sleep wich is only perdoosed by
an approving conscience and undilooted
hkker. The Vice President, Mr.. O'Brien,
took the bottle and the chare, till mite,
when we went to attend a meeting at
wich Mr.. Dinnis Karney wuZ to speek,
and afterward we made raid on num-
Der NV Chinese laundrymen, killing per-
haps a dozen, and confiscatin more eileen
shirts than / he'd ever ben in in the
whole course tlv my life.
The next evenin l went to meetin
Nv evangelical Pacific Coast Chrischens,
witch met to protest agin the Presidents
veto NV the Chinese bill The prinsipal
speeker wuz the Rev, Melchisidek Bar