Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1869-09-02

Some of Its Peculiar Institutions.
Tram shangae letter TO the San Francisco Bull
letin.
THE s.BABY TOWER"
In 1868, wrote an article on the Shanp-
hae baby tower" which was pronounced
by California critic '.an unblushing piece
of fiction" i wish this would-be-wise in
diyidual, when he comes to China, would
visit the place and see for himself the
slaughter Of the innocents. less Iefned in
its way than their death in Christian coun-
tries when their mothers don't want them,
and resort to 'foetal homicide" so Wig
orcusly denounced by Bishop Cox,
of New York. This '.baby tower"
is nominally intended for those
mothers who cannot afford to provide coffins
for the little ones Ca ceffin to a Chinaman is
the object of his daily care and thought,
and he often buys it years beforehand).
Really it encourages infanticide. and in
: 1861, 1862 and 1868 the most horrid and
disgusting sights were witnessed about
the town. In those old rebel days the
ties OF humanity were utterly ig.
nored. An affair intensely ludicrous oc-
CURED the other night near this place. =
Some female Buddhists live in the vicin-
ity, and about the witching hour of mid
and found that four men were attempting
to scale the nunnery walls. The sisters
stole out in the darkness with some friends
and as the Chinese We're dropping down
the wall, they Were seized, tied tails to
hands, beaten with the bamboo. lashed
with vigor, and then sent TO the French
Police Station. They did-these Celestial
virgins, young and o'd-avenge the at
tempted invasion Of their sacred precincts.
WOMAN POWER IN CHINA.
Although woman is kept ~ iiriehtfnl
slavery in China, and are not supposed to
be Of much use, 1t is remarkable how the
men fear them. A en- ious instance of this
occurred the other day at the police court.
when a big and lusty native merchant
charged two old women with stealing from
him quantity of gold and drilling. He
said. under oath. that as he was passing
their house they seized him by the tail,
pulled hinr in, told him he was in
then debt and robbed him. You will
observe how convenient this tail of the
Celestial is, and how often he gets into
trouble through it. 1t is really extraordin-
airy how the Chinese submit to it so long
people so material, so shrewd and So
commonplace. chnging to a custom be-
cause certain Tartars, two or three hundred
years ago. ordered that it should be so. |
wonder il you have any lottery or policy
shops in San Francisco kept by women.
Another Illustration of how women assert
their rights: white man won 1910 in a
lottery, of which Mrs Acum was manager:
she concluded to go north, and, refusing to
pay the winner, was obliged to disgorge.
THE TRAFFTc IN woNEN WITH CALIFORNIA
will drop jesting on the woman ques-
ton and turn to very serious traffic in
women. which the people of California are
working themselves into, ignorantly.-
Within the last two years, kidnapping has
been going on to a most frightful extent in
the Tonquin Empire; the lowest estimate
Is $1,000; within one missionary district in
tie Tonquin territory. during the last year.
COO women have disappeared no one
can say where they have gone; many
of these girls are taken by
Chinese coolie scamps to Hong Kong,
and exported by them to California The
Chinese petty officials shut their eyes to this
most horrible trnffic IN human blood. Your
papers are fun Of the scenes on the wharf
when aChina. Steamer arrives You now
know where these women come from, and
: What they are INTENDED for VIII you not
put vigorous stop to this prostitution, and
prevent the United States flag from assum-
ing most horrible form of the slave trade
don't for an instant imagine or suppose
that our mail steamers 90 into that traffic
= efztheir own free viii, but s.forewar-aed is
fWearned." / am indebted to the China
Mail, Hong Kong. for some Of these facts.