Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-07-04

| IS deatn Dy SLOW torture KNOWN rs tne Sic
ing Drocess-the killing by 600 slices, be
fore producing actual death. 1t is too hor
rible to be detailed. An officer of the Chi
nese Government described it to me in full
Q-Bus do these laws now obtain il
| China?
Ayes. These punishments are nov
inflicted in China. Any one can see then
in any walled city.
Q.-Yes, upon criminals, but I mean Ok
| they obtain as against slaves as such2
Undoubtedly.
eff the slave is permitted to traye
| how is he known from al " escapeW TX
an American it seems incomprehensibl,
why one about to be sold into slavery doe!
not flee in a country so broad and Sc
thckly peopled as to facilitate escape by
minglins with the multitude.
A-The Government of China is unlike
| any in Europe or America. Il is paterna
in character. 1t carries this to the extreme
| IL maintains complete surveillance over
every member of society; his going out
and coming in, and his whereabouts by
day and 0y night. Every block Of build
ing8 has its governmental supervisor
whose business is to watch all the houses
Then there are larger districts with superior
supervising officers. No one can leave 8
district for night without passport from
the district officer. In ali cases he must
! carry family passport, signed by the
pGtcJIgi!iaS. If q party attempts to cross
ferry or to travel or the highway he must
;; pass many barriers where these passports
are demanded and if not produced he is
arrested At hotels, on the road
ut stores. the passports are demanded
if not shown the slave is turned over al
once to an officer, He can't travel on the
highways or by-ways, he can't get clothing,
he can't get food without the Government
and the family passport, the latter identi-
fed by the seal Of the pateJdmi!ias vised
by the Council Of Elders.
SHIPPING SLAVES.
Q-Are any slaves shipped away from
China?
ALI the coolie labor that goes from
China goes under an absolute or conditioned
sale, originally. Canton was the original
first open port of CHINA From there the
first output Of labor was had. The priv
iege Of sending out this labor was taxed
very heavily by the Imperial Government
at Pekin. To this day the Viceroy enjoys
the exclusive privilege of sending out labor
ers to foreign countries. from which the
Imperial Government derives an immense
revenue.
Ale farms it out to different colnpa-
mics. That to the United States is given
out to what is known as the Six Compa-
MES. Nobody can come here to labor
without coming through these six COmpa-
MES.
Q-But how about those that come
through British ports?
UNEEDIEG BONDAGE.
II -. fr,-o,,
is as much under the control of the Inn
perial Government, in this respect, as though
il were not a British port The Six Com
panieS prefer to purchase, conditionally OF
absolutely, poor people. But man who
has been in California, and has worked Out
the term of his bondage and knows the
value of labor, may go back home and, by
bargain with the pGterfaniIds, bring out
a lab0rer himself by consent of the Six
Companies, paying the companies ROYALTY
for the privilege None of these can, how
ever, get leave to ship their men without
the consent of the Six Companies, in .
written document yised at the FicerOy
Office or yamen.
Q.-Thcn, many Chinese laborers in Cali
fOrnia are practically slaves
A.-Yes, sir. Originally, when the
coolies first come here, they are all slaves
Q-But once here our laws protect the
Chinaman in claiming absolute liberty Of
action and control Of the results of his in
dustry Why do they not do so?
A-Thjs contract is first made with, and
binds the head Of and the whole individual
family to its faithful performance. and
every member of it, and every member OF
the gems or clans composed of individual
families. Now if the contract is not faith
fully observed the purchaser can have ar.
rested and imprisoned any one or every
member of the individual family and Of
the clans to enforce performance. Now
take the case Of one
BOUGHT FROM THE CRADLE.
All his years he has had it beaten into his
ears that his first duty is to pGtecfanaiIias
and without performing it he can have nc
place or friend on earth, and no hope il
the other world that there. as here, he
viii be n wanderer and a vagabond through
all eternity, and hunted here and in the
next world, like a wolf on the hillside
To such q one, to this slave, all the real
terroTs Of slavery are nothing to the i'm
aginary terrors Of f}its nuliiuS or nobody (
child here and in the world to come. So
that the liberty our laws offer is nothing to
him, and nothing is severe enough, no
hardship so great, no labor so exaCting, rs
to bring from him q word Of complaint, or
to induce him to stretch ont bis hand and
accept liberty. This accounts for what we
know is Transporting every day IN all towns
and cities of California where Chinese are
that girls are bought and sold, kept in
prostitution. beaten, starved, and never
open their mouths to complain
1t accounts, also, for the classes
Of laburers hired out in patches to work on
public or private works, and supervised by
Chinese headmen," who take their wage
beyond board and clothing or the sum
agreed TO be allowed the slave to send
home, perhaps. The Chinese have been a
migratory people from long before the time
Of Marco Polo. They have spread out in
every direction, and everywhere they have
carried their civilization, this patriarchial
organization this Concubinage, this wide
spread prostitution, and that other horror
infanticide, which is the direct result OF
the patrarchai system, just as all the Others
are. Wherever these people have gone
they have proven the one immiscible race
Every other people except Chinese, adopt
to some extent the customs and civilization
OF the people where they go.
DRAGGED TO SLAVERY
Q.-It is said that at one time these
SltFcS resisted expectation 10 certain cOun-
tries
Ayes at one time the stories of the
cruelties 10 coolies by the Portuguese and
Spaniards were such that the slaves had tc
be brought down and confined in great
barracocns, or barracks, and shipped down
river in covered boats, TO prevent them
jumping overheard to death. Complaint
became so loud that the Viceroy had to
give il attention, and now there is less OF
| that shipment.
@ Has no civilization been able &c
modify the Chinese system by attrition7
A-No, sir; 10 system or organization Of
society has been strong enough by any
contact or influence to modify It. In
l843 the island of Hongkong was coded to
the British. BY an order in council the
laws OF the Empire relating to slavery were
extended over that island. 1t has ever
since been great naval and military depot
Every effort has been made by the British
to prevent the holding of and traffic in