America 1881: Legend of the West

Over the next two months, San Francisco newspapers continued to dig up the "treasure" subject of Dennis.

It just so happened that during this time, nothing else eye-catching happened in the city.

So Dennis' nightmare continues.

If before he was only slightly famous among the workers, now he is well known to all citizens.

The citizens would look at him in a very strange way.

This put a ray of light on his back.

Every morning when Dennis wakes up, he sees reporters standing guard outside his home.

"Mr. Dennis, someone said you can eat sixteen potatoes in one meal. Is that true?"

"Mr. Dennis! Someone broke the news to us that you had boxed in Los Angeles. Is this true?"

At first, Dennis chose to ignore these people.

He would rush between them, without saying a word, toward the offices of the Workers' Party.

He had no excuse.

Some are true and some are false.

However, as long as there is truth, the false becomes true.

Dennis was speechless.

Until, a reporter from the "California Wanderer" asked a very outrageous question behind him:

"Mr. Dennis, I heard that you have a unique hobby and are only interested in horses, right? Otherwise, why don't you have a wife and children yet?"

No one can bear it.

Dennis turned around sharply and punched the reporter in the face.

He beat the reporter hard.

The reporter was beaten, but he was extremely happy:

".The well-known San Francisco leader brutally beat a well-meaning reporter. There is reason to believe that our questions have touched the depths of his soul."

Dennis has tried to prove his innocence through legal means.

He sued a dozen newspapers in San Francisco court for libel.

But because of the Labor Party leader's notoriety among lawyers and the courts, no one wanted to take his case.

Dennis was exhausted.

He believed that he should have a strong heart, and his subordinates also reminded him that this kind of thing would pass after a while as long as he kept a low profile.

But being low-key doesn’t fit Dennis’s persona.

Without passionate speeches, without strikes, without workers following him, his life would be meaningless.

But inevitably, the membership of the California Workers' Party began to decline sharply after a brief rise when the "Bedlam Faction" members joined after the Knights of Labor split.

Most workers are simply unable to distinguish between true and false information, and they are unwilling to follow a controversial leader, especially if he cannot prove his innocence.

What's more, the California Knights of Labor next door are undergoing drastic reforms under the leadership of new leaders.

It is said that there will be big moves soon.

This brought Dennis to the brink of collapse.

He could not imagine that the Labor Party, which he had worked so hard for so many years, would gradually disappear.

He hasn't slept well for almost a month, and every day he wakes up and feels like something is flying in front of his eyes.

Dennis decided to go all out.

He will organize another rally on that familiar sandy ground and use his past achievements to awaken the workers' support for him.

The day of the rally finally arrived.

Dennis arrived at the meeting on the sand with a black eye.

This was the first meeting place he used when he came to San Francisco.

Ten years ago, it was also here that I led a group of Irish brothers to attack Chinatown.

At that time, the participants filled the entire sandy area, and the mayor of San Francisco also came to support himself.

But nowadays, there are really not many people in the audience.

Except for those "madhouse faction" and hard-line elements of the labor league, he had never seen many of the remaining people.

This is not because new workers are joining.

It's because these people are not workers at all.

Some of them are small craftsmen nearby, or small shop owners and other San Francisco citizens.

Most of these people were close by and came to watch the fun.

Of course, there are also the reporters who come to get material.

"When I was little, my father never allowed me to waste a bit of food every time he ate."

"He told me that two of my uncles starved to death in Ireland."

"We traveled across the ocean to New York, and then across the entire United States to get here."

"This is a magical and hopeful country. My parents and I believe that we can live a good life by relying on our own hands."

"But we still don't have enough to eat and don't have enough clothes to wear."

"I have thought about it for a long time. Those capitalists are greedy, but the most important reason is that the Chinese workers from the East made us lose the capital to negotiate with those capitalists."

Looking at the audience in the audience, Dennis took a deep breath.

"Have you ever seen a Chinese laborer who only ate half a meal a day? Have you ever seen a Chinese laborer whose hands were worn to the bone but kept silent? You have seen your companions buried under an avalanche. The next day Are the Chinese workers still working?”

"I've seen it!! They don't regard themselves as a person at all! We can't do this. In this regard, we can't compete with them."

"So, the Chinese! Must go!"

"If they don't leave, this part of the West Coast, our descendants will be driven out of this place in the future."

People in the audience were stunned when they listened to Dennis's speech.

From what he said, it seemed like that was the case, but wasn't he admitting that white people were inferior to yellow people?

Is Dennis crazy?

"Your logic is ridiculous!"

A group of people suddenly appeared outside the venue.

The leader was Holly, and Wang Qingfu walked side by side with him.

Behind them were members of the California Knights of Labor.

There are white people and Chinese workers among them.

Wang Qingfu stood a few meters away from the stage and loudly refuted Dennis:

"When you are oppressed, you don't look for the reasons for yourself, but transfer your hatred to others. What kind of behavior is it? You are afraid that you can't outrun others, so you take out a gun and shoot your opponent to death. This is naked banditry. !”

When Dennis saw Wang Qingfu, his eyes were on fire.

He is an easily angered person.

"Shut up, you lowlife!"

"I don't think Chinese workers are inferior people!" Holly, the leader of the California Workers' Knights, suddenly began to speak. He pointed at the energetic Chinese workers behind him, "They are brothers. Everyone here is fighting for this." We have contributed to the construction of the country!”

"They all have legal citizenship."

This sentence triggered a burst of discussion in the audience.