Speeches of Dennis KearneyJesse Haney, 1878 - 29 pages |
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Page 12 - Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten. Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
Page 5 - The voluntary outpouring of the public feeling, made to-day, from the North to the South, and from the East to the West, proves this sentiment to be both just and natural.
Page 13 - No,' and a vote taken resulted in an almost unanimous response in the negative.] The Chinese Government has sent an Embassy to this countiy to establish Consulates in California. We can take care of the Chinaman. It is designed to distribute Chinese throughout the United States. They have a population of 450,000,000 in China, and I can smell them afar off. I said there was one within 100 rods of me when I landed in Boston, and I ran against one within 50 rods. [Laughter. | Let me caution workingmen...