Workmen's advocate., 1890-05-03
CHINESE VICE IN CALIFORNIA.
An Open Slave Market-The San Fran cisco Police In League with the
 Highbinders.

l
 We find in the San Francisco Wtekly
 Stdr few extracts from an address
 recently delivered at Santa Clara by
 Miss Emma R. Cable, in which she makes some statements that deserve the
 widest publicity. Chinese women, she
 said, are bought in this country i'll what
 may be called the open slave market,
 for there is no disguise about it at all
 The price varies from Sl ,000 to $3, 1000,
 but the first cost is generally the last, as
 "they are, thereafter, kept busy sewing garments for the stores, and are expected
 to work from l2 to l6 hours hours day, Sundays included. Girls of 13 and 14 years of age are daily encountered in dcns of vice i'll possession of owners, and the work of education is made to add to the accomplishments, and therefore to the money value, of these human adornments of dens of sin"
 The two concluding paragraphs of her report are as follows:
 Miss Carrie Mcfarland and l were enabled to rescue one of these girls from the den in which she had 80 long been confined, and for some four months 1t was necessary to keep her in hiding in my home, as a large reward was offered for her capture, and the highbinders were threatening to murder anybody found harboring her. For a time these wretches had the audacity to place ry home under surveillance, and in this free country to actually threaten 1t with peril. Her whereabouts was finally traced through white hackman accept ing Sl00 as a bribe to tell whither he had driven her, The highbinders there upon met and resolved i'll the most formal way possible to exact the death penalty from any Chinese extending her aId and comfort, and this resolution was avowed throughout the quarter
 But you ask: Where was the law and it's officers all this time Good, innocent folks, the Chnamans dollar is mightier than the American Constitu- tion with San Francisco's policemen and politicians! It is one of the most lament. able facts in connection with this girls experience that moety of her earn ings was paid each week to an iniluen- tial policeman, In point of fact, the protector provided her by law was in part her ensaver and owner. She, of whom all this is true. is yet only IS years Of age. She is attractive in appearance, of superior mind, marked Individuality and refined manners, which it is diff ticult to tell how she acquired Born in China, her father was a German sea captain and her mother a Chinese woman.
 'The death of the father left the family | in straitened circumstances and a slave | buyer from San Francisco appearing, the mother was induced to part with the | child, then only l3 years old, upon the | that Il Chinese merchant, | whose photograph was exhibited, would | marry her upon arrival here. She was instead sold for $2,500 and placed m the den from which had the good for tune to rescue her."
 And this case observes the Star, lis far from being solitary one in which and even wholly white girls are ehslaved right under the eyes of our police force. $ me years ago, it was positively ascertained that Chinese were in the habit of stealing and buying white infants, most girls. raising the latter for .he same infamous purposes"
 What are our Federal judges doing to prevent such crimes with all the power hat the law confers upon them? What 'ort of a President have we in the White House, and what kind of Senators and does California send to Washington, that such disgrace upon American civilization should pass unno- iced by them all: