The Evening critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1881-1885, 1884-08-09
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The Great Fraud Makes Rambling


speech.
DR.. c. G. O'Donnell, of San Francisco,
who claims to have two Chinese lepers in
his custody, made an address to small
crowd from the steps of tho City Hall last
evening, but did not show his lepers. lie
still claimed to have them aud said he In
tended TO turn them loose on the streets,
but not until he was ready to turn himself
loose from these parts, however.
The Doctor Is o fno-looking man, about
50 years old, rather tall and well-formed,
with iron.gray hair and mustache. He
has n good voice, and is good talker, aud
interested his hearers.
He was accompanied by his brother, l..
J.. O'Donnell, and another lieutenant, who
lugged around n large portfolio filled with
immense cardboatds containing figures of
lepers in a revolving condition. The fig.
ures were perfectly nude and comprised
both sexes.
Before he began to speak tho Doctor
placed the pictures around the base of the
columns and the crowd Immediately began
TO form aud the pictures aud the inscrip-
lions were inspected with absorbing inter-
est.
The speaker was introduced by Colonel
franklin Pierce Morgan, u local journalist,
and he proceeded to deliver himself in q
loud, full voice.
The first impression made on his hearers
was that II his medical education has
been as sadly neglected as his edu-
cation in English grammar, he will
never become famous in his profession. He
reinforced every tough story with the re-
mark "Thats n positive fact gentlemen"
The rumor that he is lecturing in the in
terest of one Of tho great political parties
received no positive exempliiication from
any remark uttered by him but tho doubt
was left in the minds of somo that he might
be in the interest of the Butler labor party.
He repeatedly denied that he was talk
ing for political purposes and was not very
choice in his language when he condemned
the English for introducing the African
and Chinese slave trade irto this country, rs
he termed ID. He dwolt on this and was
very severe on the English. He talked q
great deal about the Chinese on tho Pacific
Coast monopoli2ing all the trades and
crushing out the whites, and made some un-
favorable comment on the vetoing of the
Chinese Immigration bill by President Ar
thur. He paraded copy Of Chinese
newspaper, containing the Presidents pho
tograph, nearly life-size, and copy of his
veto message printed In Chinese.
He made great deal of capital out of
this, but was very guarded in his remarks
and RETAINED from saying anything that
could be called politics. He said he was an
Independent and run on that ticket for sew
eral offices in his native State and came
near getting elected LIST time. Ho said no
was simply travelling in tho interest of
science and to demonstrate to the people Of
the East what the people in California had
to endure from the Chinese and to warn
them of their danger of the terrible scourge
OF leprosy and also of having their trades
and business monopolizcd by the id
pagans," as he called them.
He said the Chinese in this country earn
ed $i9,000,000 per year, and nearly all Of it
went to China, because they live on five to
seven cents per day and everything they
buy comes from China, and they don't
spend a cent in this country they can help.
There are $4,000 of them in this coun-
try" he said, land 1000 of them are liLyer-
ing in the horrible fortunes Of the foul, filthy
disease, thirty-fve feet underground and
$50 feet from the sidewalks He said that
house that was largo enough to accom-
MEDIATE husband and wife and one child
was occupied by 100 to $50 Chinese but he
didn't forget to reinforce this assertion
with, "Thisis positive fact gentlemen"
THE man who employs a Chinaman should
be boycotted, d-n him." continued tho
Doctor. 81 am going to parade my lepers
in the District, and don't you forget it,"