Daily Tombstone epitaph., 1886-04-08

"Whom the gods intend to destroy| they first make mad This quotation applies particularly to the secret circnlar| surreptitiously circulated, by the Nall Executive anti Chinese committee, 1 committee who have not dared to put single signature to the circular. Thi Executive committee--if such exists, eY cept in the imagination of Mir. BagX and few of his agitators, are attemptin to evade and violate the laws of the Ian They must know, since Juda Sawyers decision Tn the Nicholson ca that boycotting is illegal and in rega to the territories that there is no dou
 The desperation of this so-called an
 Chinese League and its declining cau
 has caused them to falsify history a
 distort facts in this circular. They s
 "a handful of men are standing in thd path" "We want no traitors in o midst" "A handful of men stand
 their path 10 thwart it's at,anme1 "You have it in your power to cocr them. Will you do itF' This circular refers to Hancock and Adams, as leaders of the populace who threw the tea from the English ships, which King George the III-and his confederates sent over to this country, intending to do what? "To coerce" and dictate to the people of the colonies what they should do. This attempt at dlctation and coer cion, was so repugnant to the idea of free thought, conscience and independerce that the revolt at such monstrous i6c' induced Hancock, Adams and oth, noble men of Boston, to go to the ship in the harbor, and throw the tea over board. This they did, to show the c,u tempt they had for King George, for L; attempt at dctation and coercion ! was this act of American freemen wh brought on the revolution of I776 wh made this an independent and free { vernment for the oppressed of all natioI' and has nculcated in the heart of every American just sense of freedom Q thought and action. To think that d., irres 2onsible anti-Chinese .conmr should have the temerty and insoleI
 10 put in circulation, surreptitiously, circular, which no decent paper wo |, publish, calling men who don't agree w", them traitors and advising thci friends-if they have any--lo violate th, laws of the land. We say violate, be cause, Judge Sawyer has just decGe' that boycotting is illegal, and tha, j,, parties engaged in it are subject to a penalty provided under the law. " h, are the persons composing this anti Chinese committed? They have no signed their names to this circul,r Why? Because they have falsi6ed facts distorted history and are attempting {, find fools to believe them. There is ou, paramount sentiment in the heart c; al American, You can appeal to, sympl thise with and persuade, but you cam
 drive him aud when this Anti ChiIr., League makes such an attempt as the, have done to coerce they will fail ignom inously. In this connection we hay, simply to tell MT. Bagg, his agitators conspirators or by what name they are tc be known, you had better go slow in ,hi. business, attend to your own, leave ha of your neighbors alone and don, cal respectable citizens "Traitors,n because they don't agree with you, while the, are only exercising right which the law gives to each and every man in thi: country This "Boycott" may do in Ire. land, but in this free country, il is ir violation of law and in this territo.y the law will be enforced.