St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-04-06

! manhood, decency and honesty than 90
| per cent of the lrsh.' A GLOBE re-
| porter called at DR.. Burrell's residence
! last evening, to ask If he had been cor
| rectly quoted. The hustling divine was
| somewhat surprised upon being shown
: the interview III question, and stated
| that lie had not seen 1t before.
"a yodnS man called here to inter-
view me upol another matter" said he,
''and had no idea he had any intention
of using my talk about this case. He
has not reported me correctly, either. |
was speaking about this man Hoy, and,
as he is an Irishman, that was the
| nationality that occurred to me in max
| ing the comparison. What | did say
| was this: 'Yee Sing is a thorough bust
ness man, gentleman and a Christian,
and one of the best members of my
church. In my opinion he is better
than 90 per cent of the Irish or other
natiOnalitieS who are so vindictively
prosecuting him. l did not intend to
single out the Irish in particular, for l
would be foolish to traduce my own
nationality, for | am as much Irish as
anything else.
II don't remember making any such
remark as is attributed to me by one of
the morning papers when went to pO-
lice headquarters some time ago. At
that time this same zee Sing was bru
tally assaulted, and although three diff
ferent officers were called upon, they
refused to arrest the perpetrators.
Their numbers were taken, and, al
though never reported, we still have
them. | went to Supt. Bracket and
told him about the case, asking him il
there was to be such discrimination
shown. and he said that it was not his
intention to have it so, and since that
time there has been none, and | am
happy to say that the window breaking
and all such mischief being done to the
Chinese laundrieS has ceased.
1.-The time has gone by when any
class should be prosecuted in this coun-
try. Men are all equal and have all
equal rights as race, be they Ameri-
cans, Germans, Irish, negroes or Chi
neSe. 1t this persecution of the Chi
nese lauuries in Minneapolis continues.
popular feeling will be aroused
among class of charitably inclined
people that will bring them rush of
business at the expense OF the regular
laundries. From what [ can learn,
there was no knife drawn in the ARRAY,
nor did the man Hoy claim so. He
went into the shop when only
one Chinese boy, STRIPPING sixteen
years of age was in attendance, and
asked to buy some opium, Offering first
$3.50 for some. anG raising his bid. He
hung around there for over an hour,
bOthering the young fellow, until he
told him in imperfect English to get
out. This Hoy refused to do, and the
China boy pushed him. This was eX-
cuse enough, and the big, burly ruffian
1oi- In
head, and sprinkled his blood indis-
criminately about the shop. Then he
went out and got an officer to arrest the
boy. The older man did not come in
until later, after the struggle.
81 don't want to say anything person
ally about this Hoy. Detectives, as a
rule, are not much beloved in a COM
munity, and | don't think anything l
could say would place him in worse
light than he already occupies before
the community. l don't want to say
anything against the Irish, and / am
sorry, for the sake of the Irish, that he
is an Irishman. l shall have some
thing to say about the rights of the
Chinese in my sermon Sunday even
ing"
Inspector BOYS version of the affair
differs from that told Dr.. Burrell, which
caused him to make the bitter remarks
about Hoy's nationality. The inspector
a certain eX-convict who roomed over
the laundry. Not finding him, he went
into the laundry to make inquiries.
There he smelled opium smoke, and.
thinking he would investigate, told the
Chinaman he wanted to "SmOkee,"
when they went at him with hot water.
a fiatiron and a knife.
However, the row may have occurred.
DR.. Burrell's heated defense of the
Celestial pets of his church has awak-
ened no end of feeling, and the Irish
very bitterly resent their nationality
being singled out for an insulting COM
parison which. upon DR.. Burrel's as
sertion that all men are equal, seems
hardly justified. The following eX-
pressions from two well-known Irish
pare favorably with at least 80
in this country, will suffice to show, the
feeling that DR.. Burrell'S attack has
awakened:
Chris A. Gallagher-Mr. Burrefl says
his Chinaman is better than all Irish
man, and that he himself is a "half
Irishman." Now If his Chinaman is
better than an Irishman, he is infinitely
better than "half Irishman." Why
don't Westminster church get the best
and exchange the 'half lrIshman - for
the Chinaman.
Roger Vail did not think that DIR.
Burrells bigotry would carry him so
far as to fling such gratuitous insult
upon the Irishmen of this city. He
declares himself half Irish, and yet
he says that his pet Chinaman has more
decency and manhood than 80 per cent
of the Irish in town. The other half of
the reverend bigot must be bitterly anti
Irish, and the best half of him, which
has rendered him so popular here, is
the Irish part. Probably he may apollo
gize, like the Chicago Baptist preacher.
on the ground that he had taken an
overdose of quinine.