The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1883-08-09
NUMBER 80.
Wong Chin Foo to Denis Kearney.


The challenge addressed by Wong
Chin Foo, editor Of the Chinese Ameri-
can, to Denis Kearney, of sand-lots no.
toriety. is as follows:
NEW YORK, July Is, 1883
To Nr. Denis KedrNcY, ISt0r House -
Sir-lou and are both citizens of the
United States by adoption. You have
achieved such fame as belongs to you by
insisting that the race to which belong
shall be denied the advantages which
this country has always offered to your
own. ], on the other hand, in the face
OF the cnmity Of your race and its friends,
represent the Just demand of my people
for fair play as against yours. belong
to the most ancient empire on this globe
\ on, by your own statement, belong to
the most dependent and ill-treated ma
ton Of serts ever deprived of its liberties
The flag Of my country floats over the
third greatest navy in the world. Yours
is to be seen dorisiyely displayed on the
l7th OF March in the puphc streets anC
trumphantly hoisted on an occasional
Sin-mill. The ambassadors and consuls
of my nation rank at every court in Fu-
rope with those OF Russia, Germany,
England and France. Those of your
race may be found cooling their heels in
the lobbes Of any common council in
which the rum selling interest in politics
predominates. The race which repre-
sent is centuries old in every art and
science. That OF which YOU are the
spokesman apologies for its present
ignorance and mental obscurity with the
plea that your learning and literature
was lost in the mythical past. Ii you
and We're each to address the American
people in our native tongues, we should
he equally unintelligibe to our audience
In speaking the language of this country.
which IS naturally the language of neither
Of us, we should meet on the same ground.
Perhaps you speak English as We'll as
do Some Irishmen do. In such a case
we should be on the same plane iinguis-
tically, however we might differ i'm natu-
raj dignity and intelligence.
When you ceased your cuckoo cry that
"the Chinese must 90, you fell into dis
repute. In an American convention YOU
were publicly denounced AZ a fraud and
a traitor. | logically infer that YOU are
only honest, therefore, when You de
nounce my race. That at aIl events, is
my estimate Of you, for which | am in
debted to our fellow cOuntrymen bv
adoption, the Americans, You are in
New York, 50 am |. You are Il dis
appointed demagogue, and You are going
IN q day or two to Stir up the prejudice
of your ignorant but WelI-meaning broth
Ell lrlshmen against my brother Cinnamon
at a public meeting. demand Of YOU the
right to meet you there or anywhere else
as the champion of my race. demand Of
You the right to array against what YOU
may say to the assisted immigrants of
your people, what have to say in behalf
OF the industrious and unassisted i'm
migrants Of mine Numbers Of tie men
who listen to You will he paupers and
deaGbeats, who have had every oppor-
tunity to get on i'll this country Every
Chinaman who may be there will have
paid his own passage to America, will be
earning his own living honestly (most Of
them by the professional practice of that
art Of cleanliness to Which men Of Your
class are usually stlangers) will bt the
poSSessor Of savings account, and will
in no degree interfere with Your most
brutal and idiotic harangue III lou fail
to ask ne to meet you there, if YOU fail
to offer me h chance to combat the puer-
lie vituperaton You intend to heap ON
my people, shall post you as an empty
bladder, afraid OF being punctured and
relieved Of the tctid wind it contains
WONG CHIN Foo.