Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-12-08
JUST INDIGNATION.
John ohinaman Treated Better than
Uncle Sans Legitimate Sons.
Tramps Pouring in from the -Four Quar-.
ters of the 0ompass-The Shot
Gun Tonic Prescribed.
Corregpondeneo OF lhe anretto.

hearts two or three grievances of quite
a serious character and have patiently
bided our time for giving them to the
world. The present occasion is pc
culiarly fitting one for yoiclng our re-
sentiments, as fierce norther Is blow
ing this morning from the fiost-bound
home of our hyperborean, blue
nosed neighbors, and old provocations
come back to us with sharpened edge.
Grievance number one is the China
man. Cinnamon are employed as see
ton men ON the west 800 miles of the
Texas d Pacific railway. BY PEE
culiar contract with the Chinese COM
pany these Acknowledged Mongolians
receive higher wages than American
section men, and have comfortable
houses built for their accommodation.
while white men, where employed, al
ways have to shirk for themselves.
Now who is responsible for this anom-
alOus contract, OF what great interest,
corporate or public, is subserved by
such policy, l have not now time to
discuss. Perhaps, like the beau found
in the servant girls closet, IL is =
teller left over by the other girl" /
am at present only concerned with the
presence OF Cinnamon In Midland.
They are foul and disgusting in their
| persons ana manners; beastly, sensual
and revolving in their lives. They
have very little mechanical ingenuity
or aptitude, and it is n ridiculous bur
lesque and tTavesty on the dignity OF
labor TO place important work in their
hands. They quit work under the
! Ct NetH 10
They want TO cookee ricee, or washee
washee, or smOkee opium. Every
| morning the section boss asks them,
"Do you work to-day ?n' If they send
back the insolent answer, I'VE no
workee-vossee no goodee," he must
swallow the insult and leave them TO
their opium. They worked ten days
in November and eight days in Octo-
| her to protect the lives and property
passing over the Texas q Pacific rail-
way.
All summer we have been disturbed,
insulted and shocked by this imported
rottenness personiiied. During an
opium dehsuch their brains are be-
numbed, the decencies are forgotten
or disregarded, their eyes protrude and
become nearly blind, their clothing
becomes irritable and is thrown Off
and our ladies and children must take
the risk OF running against the half
nude besotted wretches any hour of
the day, any day in the week. The
half crazed, half imbecile animals fight
and scream among themselves like a
family Of foul hyeuas, and our COM
monest midnight disturbances are the
cries and pistol shots from the China
mems house.
Now call il what you please, moral,
religious, political, social or race ostra,
cisrn, 40 far rs Midland is concerned
the Chinese must go. There
will be NO violence, no destruction OF
property. The Johnnies can fake their
isa-pots, opium and idols, but when We
say goodbye to them they will under
stand US, aud we shall SEQ their faces
no more.
Grievance number two is tramps
They come to us on sweat tickets from
other stations, ia empty freight cars
under the cars, clinging to the trucks
and break frames, and on the blinC
baggage OF passenger trains next the
engine. Most of these traInps are
young or middle-8ged fellows, disgust
ingly powerful !, healthy, dirty anC
hungry The amount of good, whole
some food that one of these brutal, use
less scOundrels will store away Ia
constant source OF wonder. WheI
they make their advent ut midnight o
the small hours Of the morning, they
do not wait patiently until 1t is gu
+ pleasure 10 arise and receive them, bu
/ they lombard our houses, kick anC
J.. thunder at our doors, and With louC
. shouts and imprtcati order us to ge
up and let them in. We canuot tel
5 what we have ever done to offend th'
! railroad boys, but all the same WI
know that day after day and nigh
: after night they have searched all theil
+ trains and put off all their tTamps a
q Midland. Now, this method OF treating
. u new and struggling community may
2 be too bright for anything, but W.
i. have enough of the rough element II
d our lives at best. We have no mulnic
y ipal organization, no justices OF th'
! neace. no constables, no calaboOse. j
|, is an easy thing for older towns TO cal
y aboose the vagfant scoundrelS and
Is make them work out their fines oil
g the streets, but we have no sucf
r remedy, and 1t is to the last degree
I mean and unmRply for the railroad
II hoys to turn all the Iascals loose at Mid
,, land. Powder aud lead seem TO be th'
i, only remedy. We have more arms ant
g munitions OF war than the government
= had at the breaking out OF the late un
Z pleasantness, and we cannot do bette
h thaA 10 utilize them in defending GU
q domicils,
II Nv two grievances have consumed
II ali my spaee. New stores are belnl
a opened at intervals, and new and wei
come families are quietly taking VI
o their abode With ms.
Q A fine lot of evergreen and decidu
:. GUS trees and shrubs was received
few DAYS ago from DIR. John Il. Enni
/, Of Chicago, and all Midland is reJoic
!, ing over The generous gift and distri
" button.
A very strange incident haPpenee,
shortly before the death Of W I
p Wallace. our late district attorney
q, willie ia. Haltom, one of the candl
Il dates for the above office. was \
Csstroville q few days before IN