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We are men, and propose to live like men in this free land, without the contamination of slave labor, or die like men, if need be, in asserting the rights of our race, our country, and our families.


Denis Kearney


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He warned railroad owners that they had three months to fire all of their Chinese workers or “remember Judge Lynch. I will lead you to the City Hall clean out the police force hang the Prosecuting Attorney burn every book that has a particle of law in it and then enact new laws for the workingmen. Blaine
“Kearney is a particularly stupid and uninteresting creature…[who only appeals to] “those who like profanity indecency and coarse vulgar and savage brutishness.

” He was part of a short-lived movement to increase the power of the working class but after a few years his increasingly vitriolic language and his repeated arrests for inciting violence alienated many of those who he was trying to influence. Called “a demagogue of extraordinary power” he frequently gave long and caustic speeches that focused on four general topics: contempt for the press for capitalists for politicians and for Chinese immigrants. He started an employment agency where he worked until his health began to fail around 1900.

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