The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1882-07-29
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.

Freight NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. and Hebrews
Out of LUCKNOW the Dutchman Got
Away With the Short Boys-Good News
ON Wall Street.-The Flight to the Water
ing Places-Building News, etc.
NEW YORK, July q, 1882.
EDITOR CHIEF:
think it was last year as the dog days
drew nigh that made the discovery that
warm weather waa not conductive Of
morality. It is not that men do little
more swearing than usual, or that they
become morally oblivious to their per-
.sonal obligations; but as the thermom-
eter rises the moral barometer falls, so
that while zero might represent an aver
age degree of frozen virtue, 80 degrees in
the shade would stand for average ras-
cality, 80 degrees for Internal villainy,
and 100 degrees for the usual class of
crimes punished by the State prison OF
the gallows. While the thermometer
stood at 20 degrees the freight handling
strikers were tolerabIy peaceable and
nndemonstrative; but the moment il rose
to 80 degrees in the shade it seemed as if
the devil, or some one else, had got pos
session of them. They pelt poor wretches
with stones, whose only offcnse is that
they are compelled to work for what they
can get or starve; and for this they arc
knocked down and beaten with clubs;
and this in n country which is supposed
to be the model republic in the world!
The Driscolls, McCarthys, O'Dwyers,
Hennesseys, Kellys and Sullvans swear
I" be st. Patrick we won't have ana av
thin Oitalian farmers intherferin wild
our roights.' This question will have to
be met sooner or later, and maintained
at the bayonet's point, if necessary-the
right of every man to his own free labor
without let or hindrance from any other
man; and until the day comes when ev-
cry man can say, without fear, what he
will take for his labor, this is not free
country; and the government that won't
maintain man in that right don't
care whether he is an Italian or a China
man-deserves to fall. Let the boss he
free to say what he viii give, and let
the man be free to say what he will take;
but do not allow him to beat or kill any
other man who feels inclined to take less.
Nothing can be more pitiable than the
condition of some of the Russian Jews
who have lately landed here. Many Of
them are in the extreme of restitution,
In their own country they would work
from the rising Of the sun to the going
down of the same, for half dollar. A
dollar and Il half day looks like big
wages to them, so they eagerly accepted
the otter to go to work. What must be
their opinion about our American civili-
cation when they found themselves
chased like wild wolves, aud saw some of
their poor companions brought in all
manned aud bleeding. their only crime
being that they tried to make an honest
living. New York is booming now with
Land League meetings, and thousands of
dollars are being collected for poor OPP
pressed Ireland; but if England has done
any thing worse in Ireland than the Irish
have done to the Italians and Russians
in New York, l have yet to see it or hear
Of it. 1t is disgraceful that such state
Of affairs should exist in the principal
city OF the Union, and if Mayor Grace
were not afraid of losing votes at the
next election, with the unlimited power
at his control, it would not exist for an
hour; but these low rutfians have votes,
and few broken heads might endanger
the Mayors majority.
About thirty years ago a party called
the Short Boys, Il lot of the worst ruffians
that ever cursed city, thought We were
getting too many Dutch among us. The
Dntchmen We're inclined to be peaceable,
but the Short Boys We're spelling for !.
fight. Well, they got it after a time, and
it wasn't necessary to say to them
DON'T you forget it," for they did not
forget it without telling, and they have
not forgotten it Yet, that is, if any of
them are alive and ont Of prison. Oh!
what n wallaping the Dutchmen gave
!. them! There were no ambulances then,
but there were lots of dead and broken
up Short Boys carried off on doors and
shutters, to the great delight of all order