Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-02-02

has avoided it whenever possible. 1t had a
worse among those who lived in the island, and
they were generally glad to get away to the
United States
In December, 1868, and on the 9th Of April
last, DEGREES were issued, suspending coolie i'm
migration, compelling coolie paupers and vaga.
bonds, &C., to leave the island at the expense of
the state. This again was mere blind. TO
have enforced it would, the planters said, have
brought on commercial crisis. Hence it could
not have been enforced; as it was never intend
ed to be-
The last atrocity-Valmascda dccree-is ex-
actly what the Habanero volunteers and fanati-
cal Madrirenos desired. Under it the entire
Chinese population of Cuba, $4,000 in round
numbers, win be made scrfs. In all probability
there will be determined resistance to this
haseness. In Havana, 1900 have been seized
and made slaves.
WHAT THE sPANIARDS WANT.
A gentleman now here, actively employed as
a leading journalist, who has resided in Cuba,
and who has made profound study of the Ia
Dor question as seen in that island is my au
year, he says, three things have been sought
and in the main accomplished, by the Spaniards.
They are:
LIST. The reopening of the slave trade. Car
goes have been landed within a year on the
coast of Cuba. 1t is believed that the captain
general has known of these transactions and
shared, too, in the profits 1t is the desire to
reopen this source Of labor, and that is the Sc
cret of the effort making for the appointment of
Gen Concha to Cuba. Concha was captain
general after the hearts Of the slave traders
I'd. There Ihas been organized in Havana
commission, composed of the leading Madril-
lenos, having million of paid in capital, or
ganized for the sole purpose of introducing free
coolie labor.
Sd. 1t is fact that Chinese are not provided
with passports, as are other foreigners, and so
are not allowed TO leave. They are required to
be at work under contract. They are denied the
right to do any other work, to follow any trade
or traffic, and must as a consequence be COM
PEELED to suffer bondage. What The system is
may be seen from extracts of reports made by
the state department by the United States
consul at Hong Kong in letters to the state de-
partment. He gives striking picture of the
coolie traffic. Emigration" he says, "lrom
China TO all parts of the world is an organized
business or trade, in which men of large capital,
and houses of great wealth, engage as a regular
traffic, by which men are bought and sold for
so much per head, precisely as piece of mer-
chandisc is handled, at its market value. X
The cooie of China is bought by the rich
trader to serve his purchaser at low wages for Il
series of years in a foreign country, giving
mortgages in many instances on his family for
the faithful execution thereof. The Chinaman
fulfls this contract to the letter."
MR.. BAILEY's OPINIONS.
He proceeds to show that the whole business
is full of fraud and villainy. That though the
American-Chnese migration has in large
numb;r OF instances approached the voluntary
character, yet sit is so surrounded, mixed up,
and tainted with the virus of the coolie trade
as TO require the utmost vigilance and scrutiny
to separate the Legitimate from the ilegitimate
emigration" He declares that the consul is I'M
able dccentiy to enforce and see TO the execu-
ton of United States laws in this respect,
from want OF ability to employ assistants,
't' W luihN VI MS uuliNS ii ltAltt III
this respect. He declares that in his opinion
China is on the verge of some great change,
sure to send immense Plumbers to the United
States The traffic is very profitable, and being
so everything is prostituted to its continued
success In his judgment the traffic differs
from the African slave trade Sin little else than
the employment Of fraud instead of force
WHAT OUGUT WE To Dnp
1t is very hard TO say, but the fact is nevorhe-
less sell-evident that we are, commercially
speaking, the biggest hackers of the worst sys-
TEN of slavery, and that we are allowing to 90
on one of the most monstrous of wrongs to a
friendly people, without Il word of rebuke OF
interference. Have we no duty, even to the
| Chinese? Have we a moral right TO allow
bloodshed and disorder, oppression and outrage
to proceed unchalenged, in the holding of high
revel at our very doors? Is it not the right Of
the American congress TO know what the state
department knows on these matters? What III
terest has that department in whitewashina
| Spain?
1t is charged in positive terms here that Mr.
Fish keeps back information which the public
ought to know, because it may discredit his
| Spanish policy. tOBsERvER.