The National tribune., 1882-06-03
ON THE PACIFIC COAST,
Chinese Opposition Watcr.Works and Mongolian
Doctors.

Chinese Opposition Wafer Works and Mongolian
Doctors.
A forcible illustration is Just given, writes
the San Francisco correspondent of the Bal
timore SIN. of the business sagacity OF CHI
namen. The Chinese Quarter pays $4,000
month TO our water companies; $40 month
is the water tax on every Chinese washhouse.
The Six Companies. that rule Chinadom IN
California and provide for their necessities,
have at times applied for reduction in vain.
They have been studying our arteslan water
system and how those who have flourshlng
wells make money by supplying thirty to
forty neighbors from their surplus at half
our water-tax rates. Having quickly ac-
cuired the data they quietly and unobserved
drove down artesian tubes some 120 feet on
/ tie back end Of their ground on Clay street,
/ and GOT a fine flow OF water of excellent soft
! quality. Spring Valley Company's water is
very hard and impure. \ Chinaman called
again about rates, and the un.uspectpg
president received him coolly: We don't
care to water you Cinnamon any way. we
have discharged all our Chinese workmsn
and don't intend to employ any more" 70
which the willy MOnGolian retorted: Iou
discharge Cinnamon. Good! Cinnamon dis
charge you company. Good-by." Hastily
iuquiring around, the officer found the arte-
sian well and a G00OO-gallon tank under
construction His ast0nishment was COM
plete when informed that the $4,000 a month
levied on the numerous wash-hOuScs would
soon be stopped also. The Chinese Compa-
MES are about putting down artesian tubes
in a distant outsliiyt and building wash
house where all Cinnamon can do their
washing ard have their homes convenient
Wagons viii he provided to save the foot
and back toll now imposed in gathering and
delivering all over town. This makes long
faces among the washerwomen Of rival for
eign extraction, who anticipated getting mo-
nopoly and trebling prices when the MoDgo-
liars should be driven ont under the new
law. People are finding out that two can
play the game OF discharging," and that ir-
stead Of going the Cinnamon are laying ont
for more permanent stay and more tnoaas
upon existing business of white men. Quite
rs fast as discharged in any direction they
set up for themselves and generate their own
employment. The last Bristish steamer re-
ports S0,G00 Mongoliars at Hong Kong offer
ing biz prices for passage to California.
Printers have felt secure against Chinese
interference Cinnamon can't set English
tvpe: there we have sure reliance" They
are finding out their mistake. Some of our
Mongolans work at English tpye-setting in
Canton and Hong Kong. They offer to set
the tvpe for a 48-column paper i203 by 2!
/ inchcs) at 75 cents n column, including set
= ting mp all the forms, sending proof OF eacf
article for correction, sending copy of The
e whole paper so corrected, and deliver th'
l forms TO the press room and call Tor The
{ forms afterwards. They say that they nov
!, do the same work for two papers.
u We have several Chinese doctors who ar
patronized literally by our people, and thei
i success is inducing others to come. The,
bring their own medicines from China, whcI
/ differ entirely from ours, and they claim t
" be qualified to practice in their own country
;, Some white persons, attracted by low charges
u 90 to them. and profess faith in their treat
ment. Cheapness does not always win, bu
u it is the Mongolians strong point. IheI
D examination OF lady patient shocks her
Is first by the use of the most vulgar expires
u sions; but it is evidently all they know,
II well intended and understood, and faith to-
~ crates il without blushing. Under oVel
straining popular and political pressure ant
10 Chinese laws are being enacted which ma
prove unconstitutional or impracticable. I'll
{ board of health, so urged, has just passed
law for the demolition of Chinatown, an
le for its removal from the business centre
; San Francisco. The city attorney declares
10 to be without authority. Yet it is nuisan'
and an abomination. They say, "Yo
III charges SO much water, how can keep clean