Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-10-25
THE REVOLVING REVELATIONS IN NEW
YORK

YORK.
The capture of fifty or sixty young white
women in, and the escape of half hun
dred others from Chinese opium joints,
dens of infamy, and Chinese harems in
New York this week eclipses anything
ever suspected, known or revealed con-
corning the Chinese quarters in California
cities
In the forty years of Chinese residence
in this State nothing at all approaching
the shameful condition of affairs in New
York City has existed. The Chinese in
New York scarcely number as many hun
dreds as they do thousands in California.
But the New York Chinese are not so dis
tributed among the industries. In the
main they are massed in the Chinese
quarters, or at night there assemble. Very
largely they pursue vocations that openly
or under cloak contribute to the vices of
whites.
The Chinese character is not nearly so
well known at the East as on this coast,
and hence there attaches to it there some
thing of the tabled romance of the Orient,
and until the East has passed through
such experiences as have been the fate of
the people of the Pacific Coast, the illusion
concerning the Chinese will not be dis
PEELED. 1t is not, therefore, after all so
very surprising that white women at the
East, even of the street class, should be
drawn into the Chinese net. One may
stand in the Chinese quarter of San Fran
cisco or Sacramento for week and not
discover so much as one white woman upon
the streets. At night very few degraded
creatures can be discovered stealthily en-
tering the opium dens. But if one places
himself at the entrance of Mott street,
New York, from which point he can take
its entire brief length into view, he will
see in broad day, day in and out the week
through, scores of white women. many
very handsome, many richly though
gaudily costumed, boldly promenading the
reeking pavements and entering and COM
ing out of the Chinese dens and stores, to
which the whole street is surrendered.
There is there secrecy or concealment
about the matter-the white mistresses of
the Chinese are not only plentiful but
bold in proclamation of their shame.
Added to these are the classes OF women
who seek the opium dens to crafty NOR
bid and fatal appetite, and the curious who
go to see, and almost invariably fall. If
in ten years residence in New York
for that is about the period in which the |
Chinese have been so VIGOROUSLY vicious |
there-such are the results of Mongolian |
contact with the population, what will it
be at the expiration of the next decade?
Just how far responsibility for the pres |
ent shameful condition of things in New i
York should attach to the very good but !
misguided people who have encouraged |
the mipgling of the two races, is very |
interesting question. When religious So
ciety applauds, as it does at the East, the |
marriage of Chinese converts-so called
with American women, and gives the un-
natural union approval, how can We ex-
pect women of loose morals to repel |
Mongolian embraces? The class of I'M
fortunate white girls the police of New
York found herding at night with Chi |
nese in Mott and Dover streets may, to a
degree that society does not fully realize
have been influenced to their shame by the |
example of the virtuous young women and /,
matrons who have sought to teach the |
Cinnamon the way to the foot of the cross. |
If white women of good standing may
with social approval marry Chinese, and
others with church Endorsement gather |
them into classes to impart to them in
struction in English, shall We not conclude !
that other women, with loose ideas and |
weak moral defenses have thereby been
led to view disreputable relations with the
Chinese as not repugnant?
1t is true that such has not been the
effect Of home missionary work among
Cinnamon in California, but it is because
Of the great difference in conditions. Here
the Chinese character is better understood
and the line between the two races has
been more sharply defined. Here even the
most degraded of women, with now and
then an exception, consider themselves too
good to censor: with Cinnamon, and few
ever enter their quarters in any of Califor-
mia cities unattended, and most of them
even then only on gala occasions, when the
glitter of oriental decorations and the
strange rites of heather ceremonial attract
crowds Of the curio-s.
We must therefore, conclude that with