Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-05-23
THE CHINESE IN REV YORK.

According to statements published in
the New York papers, the Chinese of Mott
and Pell streets, New York, are much
holder in their vices than those of the race
in California. Here there is Wholesome
fear of consequences there they feel at
liberty to carry the high hand. It appears
that there are girls of fifteen who have be-
come mothers by Cinnamon as a result of
being enticed into opium dens. Several
white women who are married to China
men act as decoys for the keepers of
"opium joints" and one, "Chinee
Annie, it has been proven, enticed her
own sister to an opium house, where she
was ruined, and has since led dissolute
life. E. F. Jenkins, of the Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Children, admits
that horrible crimes are perpetrated in
Mott street, but says the quarter is no
worse now than it was two years ago. The
Assistant District Attorney replied to re-
porter that he was in possession of facts
relative to debaucheries in Mott street
which no newspaper dares to publish.
John A. O'Brien, Chairman of the commit
tee of the Young Mems Catholic Associa-
alton investigating the matter, has reported
cases that all the New York dailies have
pronounced unfit for publication, and for
many Of the New York dailies that is say
ing much. The officers have in custody
now a number of young girls who have
been enticed into the Chinese dens and de-
tanned there for week at time by force.
One man, of respectable appearance and
gentlemanly demeanor, has fled COM
plant stating, that with his mother and
sister he lives on Tenth avenue. The sis-
ter is beautiful girl of very coniiding
disposition. While en- route to visit some
friends she met a woman she once
knew as girl, Della Gibbons,
Tnis woman, who had, unknown TO mis- zig.
ter, married Chinaman, drew the girl
into an opium den, where she has
since been detained by force. Her
mother, he said, was dying with
grief, and his own shame was go
great that ne was well nigh crazed.
These are few of the things told Of the
Chinese in New York. Now, in truth, it
is probable that they are no worse in their
practices than are many whites in low
quarters of that city. 1t is not probable
that they have committed greater crimes
than have been of daily occurrence in the
metropolis for years. It follows that the
universal feeling or horror excited by these
disclosures is due to the fact thai the pro.
motors of the crimes are Cinnamon, and
the fact that the feeling grows more in
tense may be reasonably attributed to
growing antipathy at the East to the
Chinese. But that crimes of equal epor.
nifty and similar in character have long
been and now are committed by whites
does not lessen the Importance of the cues.
ton, as related to the. Chinese. The facts
prove that the Ghinaman attaches himself
sooner to our vices than our virtues; that
he assimilates readily with our vices, and
that the congregation of Chinese in large
cities is not conducive to good morals and
better state of society, no matter how
valuable their contribution to any labor
market. The Chinese question is becom-
ing better understood at the East, and our
brethren are beginning to realize that the
opposition to the Chinaman in California
has not been SO much The outgrowth of
hatred as Of reason, and that while race
prsjadice has much to 60 with it. the dis
similarity between the Monaghan and the
Caucasian in habit, thought sad sin. and