The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-11-04

in my scheme. He is a kind of post
! msster for his race here, and thus know s
pretty much everything of an epistC larry
nature that goes on between them. He
halls from Bangkok. but is q pretty
moral Chlnaman, Notwithstanding. He
will always be grateful to me. because I
occe gave him turkey which | had
won in a rattle, after finding out that it
(the turkey had died ins tead of being
properly decsLitated, and because, flu -
thermore, on the strength of the 81
transaction he had allowed me to ri q
up bill, which. one day, in momei t
of forgetfulness, paid him mosL o
"Allee same as find it," he said. Wei
went to him the other day and e. :
gagged in diplomatic conversations E g
was not very communicative till after
the third or fourth drink then ! g
wanted to tell me all about everytbir g
he had ever seen, heard or felt, b.
that was more than was wanted. II
was state secrets that was after, and [
cot them. He went through his pigeon
es at my suggestion and brol ghG out
document fter document, letter after
letter, telling me who they were from
and what they were ABOUT.
Suddenly he struck oil.
1t was letter from the Chinese en-
bassy-the envoy extraYagant and min
lister penitentiary at Washington ,, IL
response to one written to him from
here about ten days before Eureka L
asked Lo Flung t. get me the first letter,
which he did, and paraded it before me.
1t looked something like an object
lesson in the science of tape-worm ex-
pulsion, but was interpreted by my
friend as follows:
SALT LAKE CITY, october TO- 1885,
To Chang Yen RoOa, Chinese Minister, Wash
ton, u. C.:
Big Shanghdi-We live here where lots of
Mellican men get dunk on Cleveland and
Halllson. Our Joss, he knows not how to
pull on big high muck-a-muck JOSS. What
we tell him? NIL Cleveland or Hallisca :?
We say one, hoodlum he say mot by a dam
psite;' we say other, same chinnee. What
we dc?
Talkee back dam quick, obligee,
WUN LUNG CON
OF course didn't let go of Lo Flung
till he produced and translated the
answer, which was as follows:
CHINESE EMBASSY,
WASHINGTON, d. c., Oct. &c, '68.
To WUn Lung Con, Salt Lake.
.SRGlIee R1IsS-I ketch on You te!lee
your Joss to ask big Joss TO sock in big work
Tor Halllson He good man, nice Mclean.
He voice Iwenty-sleVen time to help China
men in this county. He help Chinaman
vote here, and De our friend alice time, you
bet. Play for Hallison, hang on and glowl
for him. He heap Hoosier, alice same
Chinaman except when Democlat.
Yours in the Holy Dragon,
CHANG YEN Ho9E.
ask you in all eandor, how is this for
high2 or rather for low? Is il not
shameful that duly accredited repre-
sentative of a foreign power should
thus mix up with our domestic affairs,
and even suggest to men of his own
nationality tor whom they should
pray? What should be done on this
occasion? American dignity IS out
ragged, lusulted. And let the monstrous
birth herein disclosed be given to the
peoK lie whose votes are soon to. deter
mine who shall and who shall not. DOM
mate the affairs of this nation for the
next four years, in order that thsy NAV
be worked up to a red-hot heat and
their gall swe ! until it rivals that OF an
OK in Tesentiug this insult to our flag
and our people. Put none but Ameri-
cans Oh guard to see to it that their
canteens contain something else than
water Sic Semper ASiGticuS, non Sensj-
Gus, yub1 dam! rs ,AY CAIGH.s.