Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1885-09-29

p-opie when united can acconnlisl
sonoers We started in ax rnonth
aso, al Tacoma. TO f2ht the Chinsmeu
We leaisisted against them in our ci,,
council IL 10 q proad boast that n,
ooinAman owns foot Of land In Ia
efma- We vent TO those Who rem, then
houses. and tried to ges them 70 cove
nanf WITH Is that they would nos ran
or lease 70 Chinameu, bat thew refrss<
70 sign The Cinnamon of San Francis
% have employ ed 3 Seattle lawyer, spt
lawyer from some other place. Z
ofeak dsvn my government and de-
eiars our ordinances void. Each OF
tnese lawyers 10 TO receive flQC0. You
curse the Chinsmeu for Coming here
hey are not TO blame. Yos ought 10
tAEe the men who brsRght them hsre
oy the neck and choke them. In III L
crusade, you hAvs the united saIi.
sai OF the Coast against you-a hard
nRnt- 1 have been engaged in this vsrk
Tor years; chains and prison have bser
my portisn. but believe there 10 an
eternsl Justice"
Ordered that pledges be circulated for
signers who will pledge themselves not
70 empioy Chinese, or trade with those
Who do.
aeieRate from Black Diamond stated
tnat Mr. Jsnes had been appealed 10,
and had discharged the Chinese em-
pioyed at Black Diamond. Also that
parties bad waited apon the Chinese at
Franklin, and thai they had come TO
town on special train last night, and
tnat he vas happy 70 state the Green
River country was now free from the
hsathenA
Some gentleman stated there we're
thirty or forty Cninsmep at the Mccall
lister mine Mr.. Kidd said the MeCal-
lister mine had q retail yard in Seattle,
where poor people buy 5000 worth of
coal per month, which they can be
knooksd out Of bv the poor people re-
fusina 70 buy the ceal.
Mr.. MoMlllan stated that be had been
boyootted. He was Q machiniss, and
had been working in one of the Seattle
machine shops. fhe proprietor or man
aser Of the shsp met him On the street
and asked him TO withdraw from the
knights Of Labor and stop this Chinese
agitation. He had Joined the Knights
OF Labor the same as he woald JOIN a
church, because he believed in the prin-
oiples and objects of the order. He was
here to stay, and it would be q cold day
when two dollar and half capitalist
drove him out of Seattle, till be got
ready to 20. If he could get nothing 70
Dc at his trade, be would wash dishes.
II that failed he would dig CLAIMS. He
said: "On the day that the Cinnamon
leave l am willing to 90, but not before.
Chinatown would have been burned ere
this hut for the efforts Of the Knights Of
II n Il ha k.lA ~. S~sa
log structure up with my shoulder, bot
! don't propose to hold il up much
longer. IL the Chinese have not gone,
l will be sick on the 9Th Of November.
am getting tired Of holding Outraged
back, and shall not do IL
much longer II the wrong Is not riRhted."
On motion Of DIR. Tayler, of Sum-
nsr, vote of thanks was extended to
the chairman, and to the citizens of
Seattle for the hospitable treatment Of
Ihe delegates.
The meeting then listened to q very
snthusiastic but rambling speech from
Mr.. Cornell, Of Colby. He touched on
religion, usury, corporate power, the
Chinese question, etc. He said that he
had lived on dry bread and bottermilk
Tor the past three months. Great ex-
and cries of "Sit down ~
. Sit down !p'l 81 won't sit down."
shouted the speaker, unless ordered to
DO 30 by the Chair"
The Chairman told him that there
was danger Of mob, and he had better
lake his seat.
" No mob will ever hunt me-" shouted
The enthusiastic speaker, unless IL be
such q mob as oruoified Jesus Christ"
Great excitement and uproar.
By pounding on the table the Chair
man restored order long enough to en-
Iertain motion TO edj ara.