Chapter 166: Closing the Net
Because the newspapers in the east had recently made a big mistake by flippantly promoting things that had obvious loopholes, the local newspapers ended up with the words "Paul?? How could a low-level person like Nestor have access to such a secret?"
Such a clumsy statement naturally led to a big shift in the direction of public opinion, although because of the volume of traffic and other reasons, the local newspaper still could not suppress the vote of the New York newspaper, but at least, now the offense and defense are transposed. In the past, it was those New York newspapers that splashed dirty water, and San Francisco newspapers desperately washed the floor, according to the second law of thermodynamics, the difficulty of splashing dirty water is always lower than washing it. In addition, there are far more people splashing dirty water than washing the floor, so some time ago, the newspapers in the west were simply sloppy, and they were no opponents at all. But now, the situation is reversed, and it is the turn of the west to pour dirty water and the east to wash the floor, thanks to the second law of thermodynamics, and now the smallest western newspapers have gradually turned the situation around, as can be seen from the surge in sales of these newspapers. Well, even the likes of The Sun have been defeated by "Scrooge and Little Dorothea's Game of Shame," "The Shame of a Twelve-Year-Old Girl," and "J.P. Morgan's Haitian Feast," which are popular with the masses of silver. Even the flow of the joke "The little girl has three good" is almost enough to push the small train with such and such a part.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Stanford hastened to clear his name, and he met with reporters in succession to refute all kinds of slanders against him, of course, pushing a small truck that is not worth refuting at all will not be included. Anyway, in the past week or so, Stanford has almost washed himself white and fragrant. This has also made Stanford feel much better lately, but in any case, the attack by those Wall Street vampires has caused some disruption to the progress of railway construction. Thinking of this, Stanford's originally sunny mood unconsciously appeared a lot of clouds.
At this moment, his secretary recklessly barged in, holding a large stack of newspapers, and shouted at him, "Mr. Stanford, something is wrong!" ”
"What's wrong! Cornish, pay attention to your image! There is something that is worth such a fuss. Stanford said.
"Mr. Stanford, this is the New York Daily Times today," the secretary gasped, "and there is a full page, a full page of new evidence about the Chinese ship." ”
"What?" Stanford snatched the newspaper and read it.
"With the help of some righteous staff of the American Anti-Smuggling Bureau, we were given the opportunity to board a ship carrying Chinese workers directly at sea...... Stanford only felt a bitterness in his mouth, and his legs began to tremble a little, and he could barely stand up, he held the table with his hands, sat down slowly, and after a long time, he regained his steady, picked up the newspaper again, and began to read.
"We are under the leadership of the first mate Doon, and the translator Thai?? Mr. Yang, a Chinese immigrant who had recently joined the Union Army in the recent Civil War and had won several medals, boarded the ship. The captain, Mr. Schmidt, told us that at the time of his departure, he had three hundred and fifty-two Chinese on board, but because his ship was not a passenger ship, twenty-one cargo ships, the conditions were very bad. So a lot of people died along the way. By now, there were only 1o1 survivors left on the ship. The others were thrown into the sea after their deaths, as was customary at sea. In my capacity as a smuggler, I was able to check the logbook, which clearly recorded how many people were thrown into the sea every day. This is really terrible (there are also photos of the relevant content on the logbook next to it), and the ship's doctor also told us that because of insufficient preparation and lack of medicine, they did not provide medical treatment to those Chinese at all, but just took the patient out of the crowd, isolated him, and when he died, he was thrown directly into the sea. The Chinese on board told us through an interpreter that they suspected that the patients had been thrown directly into the sea, not after death. Certainly thought they had been locked up in the hold, so they didn't really see it. And because of the misunderstanding caused by the language barrier, they also had conflicts with the crew, so although their statement is similar to that of Paul?? Nestor Boatswain's claims can corroborate each other, but we follow the teachings of some media outlets that are extremely particular about the ethics of journalists, and remind everyone that this is still only a possibility, not a complete possibility.
And Tong guò translates to Thai?? Mr. Yang, we learned that these Chinese are not so-called hired 'free workers', they are either prisoners bought from local officials or 'pig babies' bought from gangsters (gangs rob people and then sell them to those who need them, a practice that is implicitly called 'buying pig babies' in China. There is a person on the boat who can write Chinese characters called Shenhe?? Mr. Lin wrote about their experiences in Chinese, and we asked Mr. Strauss, a professor of linguistics at Harvard University, to translate the text. (Deep River??) A photograph of Mr. Lin's original text, as well as Professor Strauss's translation, can be found in the Notes section of the fifth edition)
It is understood that most of these Chinese were arrested during the last rebellion that tried to overthrow the Manchu dynasty. Chinese officials sentenced them to death and then sold them to the Central Pacific Railroad...... This is the deep river?? A picture of the Chinese version of the Chinese recorded by Mr. Lim, with the fingerprints of one hundred and one surviving people, the relevant translation is shown in the notes to the fifth edition......
Now the truth is very clear, just after we have just been fighting for a few years and finally burying the barbaric and backward slavery system, the new poison of slavery is quietly growing in the west, if this behavior is allowed to grow wildly, then many years later, we may face another war against slavery, and a president will need to issue a new "Declaration of Emancipation of Yellow Slaves". Should this situation arise in a free country like ours, where the Stars and Stripes always fly high, the home of warriors? To have such a thing is simply to trample on the spirit of the founding of the United States, to trample on the dream of the United States, and to desecrate those soldiers who died fighting for the freedom of the United States!
We note that just a few days ago, Mr. Stanford, the chairman of the Central Pacific Railroad, a moral model, a humanitarian, a Christian, in the presence of the media, in the name of the Holy God, assured us that the Central Pacific Railroad had never done anything to buy slaves from Manchu officials with money; He assured us that the Central Pacific Railroad had not, did not, and would not do anything so contrary to the American spirit. Now, I don't know, what will our Mr. Stanford tell us? In the face of such a mountain of ironclad evidence, what will he sue us in the name of the holy God? Is it to sue us that he is doing the slave owner's deeds under the banner of God, or is it to sue us that he is ignorant of this qiē? Or simply close your eyes, cover your ears, and shout: 'I don't see anything'?
If Mr. Stanford claims that he is unaware of all these things, then we have to ask, how did Mr. Stanford become the chairman? Why didn't he step down from his presidency and give up his position to someone who could really manage the company effectively? If Mr. Stanford is willing to admit that he has deceived the American people as a whole and to God indeed, then, although he did so with irrefutable irrefutable evidence, he can be said to have the courage to face his crimes. But any crime should be punished, and such a slave trader, a hypocrite, should certainly not remain in the position of chairman of the Central Pacific Railroad, which is at stake for the lives of countless people and the future of the United States. Both the federal government and Congress should act urgently to restructure the Central Pacific Railroad to prevent a recurrence of similar ......"
The newspaper slipped out of Stanford's hands, and it was an absolutely heavy, fatal blow. This is true for both Stanford and Central Pacific Railroad. Stanford slumped in his chair and closed his eyes limply. He knew that he had already lost this game, and he had lost badly. Most of the time there will never even be a chance to make a comeback. Those who had rallied around him would not hesitate to abandon themselves and draw a line with themselves when they saw that the situation was wrong, and those local media, who were still speaking for themselves yesterday, would attack themselves with a harsher and more vicious tone than the eastern media, in order to prove that they were good people who had been deceived.
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"Dorothea, that Stanford has announced his resignation." Scrooge waved a newspaper and said with a smile to Dorothea, who was sitting not far away doing math problems.
"Damn, don't bother me! We're just one last step...... Well, you're done! I've made it! Dorothea cheered, and then she asked suspiciously, "Scrooge, what did you just say?" ”
"Stanford has announced its resignation." Scrooge said.
"Is that the bastard who orchestrated us!" Dorothea's eyes widened, and Scrooge suddenly felt that the temperature in the room seemed to have dropped by two degrees.
"Well deserved! This kind of guy has done a lot of dirty things by himself, and he likes to jump out and pretend to be a saint! This is what you deserve! He's looking for his own death! Oh, by the way, Scrooge, the stock of the Central Pacific Railroad should be falling to a mess right now, right? Shouldn't we hurry up and bring in a little bit? ”
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