Chapter 42: No innocent people

November 7, 1880.

Since we cannot check the almanac, no one knows what day this day is, and Americans don’t pay attention to it. However, residents in Denver know that this day is a big day.

This is what they know from the speech that Mr. Mayor gave at the gate of the city not long ago. To be honest, the content of this speech spread very quickly. In just less than two hours, several newspapers in Denver published the full text of the speech. From these contents, the citizens of Denver can clearly feel the mayor's anger...

"Yesterday, on November 6, there were many explosions in the Huagong settlement area next to the city, and a big fire broke out. If it weren't for me being on the scene, then I could dispatch commanders in time. Then, it is safe to say that Denver will suffer huge losses. At least, our citizens next to that dirty neighborhood will likely lose their homes..."

"Maybe you will say that this fire is not sure that it was the yellow people. Yes, you are right. Because the houses of those yellow people are burned are more of the houses of those yellow people, and that is the only place they can live in Denver. They cannot give up, and they cannot directly put a fire on it! But, gentlemen, ladies, I want to tell you the fact that this is what the yellow people do! Yes, I can testify, testify in the name of my mayor!"

"Why do they do this? Why do those lowly yellow people dare to do this? I'll tell you the reason..."

"Citizens, you should still remember the last day of last month, that day, there was a yellow-sex boy who set fire to his only relative in the United States in order to seize the property of his uncle for a few dozen dollars, and wanted to blame the matter on our citizens who had a conflict with those yellow-sex people that day... but he failed."

"After the trial of our police officers, and the wise Judge Frederi Kerr, his crime was soon exposed, and, on November 2, he was sentenced to hang! For this, we once cheered, and the sins were punished!"

"But we didn't expect, or we underestimated the cruelty and viciousness of those yellow people. I believe everyone still remembers the loud noise that day approached midnight, and I believe you all know what that loud noise represents... Yes, it represents the fire in the police station!"

"Someone told me that the fire in the police station did not have any casualties, and even no one was injured. Therefore, the straightforward situation is most likely because of the carelessness of the police, which ignited the gunpowder of the police station, causing explosions and fires... This is a good inference and very well-founded. In recent days, I have heard this inference in the mouths of many citizens and even councillors. But, I must tell you that this inference is wrong and extremely wrong."

"The police station was blown up."

"Who is it?"

"It's that person! The Chinese who was sentenced to hang and was about to be executed!"

"It was him who blew up our police station in revenge after breaking out of prison!"

"This is a challenge to the judicial power of the United States of America!"

"It's a challenge to all American people!"

"It's a challenge to all white people!"

"This shows how vicious that yellow man is!"

"But that's nothing! I want to tell you one thing, my dear citizens: On that day, the day when the police station was blown up, the yellow man not only blew up our police station, he also robbed your mayor, that is, me, Myers Charlotte!"

"This is true!"

"I don't have to, nor do I want to lie about this!"

"I, Myers Charlotte, your mayor, not only was he robbed, but was also tied with explosives all over his body by that cruel guy... It's explosives! As long as I get a little bit of Mars, I will leave my bones alive!"

"God, you don't know what a terrible experience it was!"

"I'm timid!"

"Yes, timid! I am ashamed of this and deeply regret it! I regret why I did not resist so hard that the guy could easily achieve his goal... But I am also very glad that I had rational, or cowardly chosen to obey, and obey that vicious man!... Because, at that time, my wife, and my son who was less than ten years old, were by my side! I could not resist, so that they were kidnapped by the yellow man and taken away from Denver... I could not protect them and protect my wife and son! I am not a qualified husband, nor a qualified father!"

"But I am very grateful. Because it is precisely because of my cowardice that my wife and son can have the opportunity to return safely! Yes, return safely. I am glad for this... Because their safe return is not because of the kindness of the yellow man, because he doesn't understand what kindness is... My wife and son found the opportunity to escape completely with their own wisdom after confusing the yellow man and his accomplices, and it was entirely their own strength."

"Maybe some citizens have noticed a word from me!"

"Yes, accomplices!"

"That yellow man, that Chinese man, he has accomplices, and there are more than one!"

"After the incident, I thought that guy should have fled Denver, but in fact he didn't! Moreover, not only did he not leave, he also lived in the settlement of Chinese people! ... But the Chinese people did not reveal any news."

"They are all in the same group! They are in the same group!"

"After my wife escaped, she told me the news! I immediately organized people to go to the settlement area to catch people... Originally, I just wanted to catch the murderer, robber, kidnapper, arsonist, but I was wrong again!"

"I thought that as a mayor, I would be very smooth to lead the team to capture fugitives in person, and those Chinese should not stop them! After all, I am a mayor, representing the government, and behind me are the people of Denver standing there! But the fact is not what I thought, I overestimated the Chinese's awe of the laws of the United States of America! ... When we arrived, they showed us their determination: they had explosives to kill our militia captain, Captain Carter!"

"Then, they started setting fires again..."

"Later, I think everyone knows it!"

"Gunfight, escape, chase..."

"The vicious Chinese, after forcing our siege with explosives, rushed into the District Court in panic, faced the pursuit of our brave militia!... It was unfortunate! Yes, very unfortunate! Because there, they once again extended their evil hand!... They kidnapped our just judge, Mr. Frederi Kerr, and Mr. Angelo and Parn Ilger, who were visiting Mr. Kerr's office at the time, and two followers of them."

"In this way, they used five hostages as cover to escape from Denver!"

"This is a shame!"

"The shame of a mayor!"

"The shame of the whole city of Denver!"

“Shame for all Denver people!”

"Because, in this short week, our city of Denver, there was a police department, a mayor, a district judge, two state legislators, and a militia captain, who were kidnapped and even killed by some lowly yellow people!"

"I would like to ask, in this city, who are left with us except those who have been treated ruthlessly by those yellow people?"

"Deputy Mayor, Inspector, Tax Officer, Or other members of the Councillor, or our Governor who is far away from Prince and who delivers his own campaign speech to the people there?"

"Citizens, can you still tolerate it?"

"If we tolerate this, what will await us will be more arrogant and unscrupulous yellow people!"

"These people rob us of our jobs, our income, and now they are robbing us all over Denver!"

"Arson, resist arrest, robbery, kidnapping, murder...what else is there any crime they have never done?"

"They have robbed all my savings. Now, every Chinese person outside Denver has three hundred dollars hidden in them. This is the stolen money they allocated... I feel very sad! That is my lifelong accumulation and almost all my wealth! But I don't want to get it back now, or to recover my money!"

"Because, I decided that those money will be used as a bonus, rewarding every Denver citizen who is willing to pursue criminals!"

"Yes, you heard it right. Tomorrow, I will send someone to lead you to arrest those criminals."

"Catch one, and all his wealth will belong to you!"

"One, three hundred dollars!"

"Go and catch them!"

"Don't let go of none!"
Chapter completed!