The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-04-22
PACIFIC SLOPE CORRESPONDENCE.
The Heather Chinoo-Tung Wah Hospital.
No Coolies Come Here-The Six Companies
Mines and stocks-The Nevada Bank Of
San Erancisnn.

INtoNiNh 10 otlli tiO bituI DubetlOn VI
est all over this coast. Mass meetings have
been held in San Francisco and other
places to give voice to the public sentiment
in the hope of influencing the action Of
congress thereby, and Fastening on modi-
fication of the treaty relations with China.
In the meantime one old spoilsport steps
in and tells these people with Chinee on
the brain that Hong Kong, from which the
Chinese immigrants all embark, is an En-
glish port, and what is wanted is not a
change in the Burlugame treaty, but in
the British treaties. This announcement
made some faces grow long for while.
But we need borrow but little fear from
these Mongolians. If too many Of them
have come to our shores nobody is better
aware Of it than this same heather Chinee.
IA your readers probably knew some week
or ten days ago, q should have written
about that time but have been confined to
my bed) the six Chinese companie, of San
Francieco sent several kilograms home say
ing "Chinese emigration must stop"
These dispatches were sent to Tung Wah
Hospital, Hong Kong.
TONG WAN HOSPITAL
is building built in the English city of
Hong Kong by the Chinese. The interior
Chinese, mostly from agricultural sections,
constitute the greater part Of the immi-
grants. They hear, through general re-
port, or through friends who have been
here and returned, of the great wages Com
pared With those at home) which are made
here, and, Just like the immigrant from
the eaotern states, ;hey scrape together or
borrow from their friends money enough
to get here with and take passage for
Hong Kong on some of the local Chinese
vessels At Hong Kong they must get an
interpreter TO get their tickets for them.
This the hospital docs, charging them 81
commission. That is all. They come here
free, just as | came from Vermont, because
they believe they can do better here than al
home. The stories that their bones arc
carried home if they die here are talse.
| They would like to have them, but the
L dClilC MAIL bltdilis4AiD company WOu l Ut
| it, and they are buried here, and on Ger
| tain stated occasions bread and meat are
carried and left beside the graves for the
use of the departed.
no COOLIES COME HERE.
We hear great deal about coolies, arc
q "system worse than negro slavery,
among the spoutiug demagogues who arr
stirring up the Chinese question for per
sonal and political onds, but | do not be
lieve there are any coolies here TO amour
to anything. No ore thing is more per
sistently drilled into the Chinese immigran
than that any labor contract made in Chin
is void here, and though q man were
slave when lie left home lie is free the mo
ment he touches American soil. Ever,
Chnaman knows this and is rs sharp aDt
as quick to take advantage of advantage
Offered him by law as the liveliest Of ]iv,
Yankees. But there is class of slave
here, and these are the women. or all de
graded, de5ased snd wretched human be
ings these Chinese prostitutes are the mos
deserving OF pity and cOmnlscration. The'
arc the absolute slaves of their Chimes
masters, who compel them TO use their vi
most endeavors to bring in as much custom
as possible, and then abuse them shameful
ly. IF the great hue and cry against Chi
nesc labor were raised in favor of thos
suffering, persecuted beings, there woult
be some sense in it and it would receiv
sympathy and aid from honest, thinking
NM rs well as from demagogues and plac
| seekers.
| THE SIX COMPANIES.
A good many have regarded tile 81,
great Chinese companies OF San Francisc
as contractors for and dealers in cool
labor, and many still cling to this idea
but it ia without foundation III fact.
arises from the fact that these companle
always know Just how many men they ca
furnish, and make contracts with partle
wanting help to furnish them. They ar
sort of mutual benefit society, formed t
protect the Chinese emigrant from til
many frauds perpetrated upon him here
and 10 provide work for him. On the lant
ing of ship from China the secrt
taries of these six companies go down t
the wharf and each man is asked what sec
ton of the country he comes from an
given chance to unite with the compan
representing that section. OF course h
has his choice 10 join any one OF the con
panies, or none, and once in while on
joins none. All that is done
uniting with the company is
give in his name, and this obligatt
the party to pay the company SIS on lea,
ing the country. This is all the fee, an
when we remember the amount of bushes
done by the companies, it is a very reason
able sum to cover mining expenses. Ono
in great while an Immigrant comes wit
neither money or friends here, and the
the company finds him food and lodgin
until he secures work.
MINES AND STOCKS.
Mining stocks remind one forclbly {
the ocean in their Use and fall. Away
in motion, rising here and falling there
never still. Once i'll while large wa,
will come along, carrying everything wi,
it. Up go the big mines and the lit
ones; and just as sure there follows in i
wake depression which settles prices agai
and the stock kings who have quietly III
loaded while the tide was in, now load u
again to wait. The Consolidated Virgin
has paid its first regular MONTH
dividend since the watering of its stock ,
which / spoke in my last, and il paid
, per share-exactly equal to the $40 p'
share it used to pay before the waterlni
They had money enough profits of Il
,, mine-to have paid So instead of So job
w. Mackey is the heaviest owner of Co
solidated Virginia stock and the richie
man in Nevada. Why, the decrease {
silver bullion last month cost him pcrso
ally $4,000. Chollar is now the on
\ stock above 100, Yellow Jacket havir
= gone down to 36i to 81 as given in yeste
, days quotations. Consolidated Virgin
was quoted at SO to 93!.
THE NEVADA BANK OF SAN FRANCISCO.
The John Mackey spoken of above W
a few years ago a miner working for
per day. James j. Fair and Flood
O'Brien, with Mackey, control the min
J Flood & O'Bren a few years ago we
| running whisky mill in San Francisc
Now they own pretty nearly the bank