Arizona republican., 1891-11-05
GREAT TRAVELLERS.
The Chinese in America Continu-
 ally on tho Go.
They Are as Much at Home in Third Glass Car as if Lolling at Ease Under the Washhouso
 Tabi,.


 Tabic.
 The Chinese arc great travellers. So proficient have the celestials become in the use of our language and the knowl- edge of our ways that the Southern Pa ciic railroad has found it no longer nee essary to maintain its old Chinese agency at Sacramento, and it has just been abolished. The Chinese are al- ways on the go, So it seems, at least, to writer in the san Francisco Chron- icle, What the cmigant trains would do, he writes, for a full complement of passengers unless they had a carload or so of Mongolians it would be difficult to say. When one goes about on the rail and sees the steady tides of outgo- ing and incoming pagans he wonders how they manage to earn money enough to pay so much railroad fare. No one for moment will question the truth of the assertion that in proportion to their percentage of the population they are much greater travellers than the white people of this country, leaving aside all consideration of their big journeys across the Pacific.
 When the San Francisco Chinatown resident gets money enough together to take trip to Los Angeles, Omaha, Chi cago or New York he generally begins to think of travelling. It matters not what he may be doing here; if he thinks Kansas City needs new washhouse he buys ticket for that town and away l,.. Al s.f s.1. chasing he has a great advantage over white persons. If he is at all shrewd, and he generally is, he can buy an emi- grant ticket at cut rate of from five to fifteen dollars cheaper than any white man can buy it. This fact, curi- ously enough, is wholly due to the white mans utter lack of confidence in him as an oath-observer
 "We can sell Chinaman a ticket cheaper than anybody else" says Cal ifornia ticket agent the other day, flor the reason that there is no danger of anybody in the railroad pool catching us cutting rates. All tes- timony as to rate-cutting before the pool commissioner must be by affidavit, and as Chinamen's afiida- wits are not admissible as evidence, of course we can always steer clear of a fine when we cut a rate for them"
 When John travels he invariably car ries stuffy-looking carpet sack in his hand and lot of nondescript bundles over his shoulder, generally tied to- gether with heavy cord or piece of hayrope. Where they get all the car pet sacks is a mystery. They are cer- tainly not an Asiatic article of luggage, but they cannot be dissociatcd from the idea of Mongolian travel in this country. Approaching the Oakland ferry, after buying his ticket uptown, John casts a wary eye about him for the poll-tax gatherer, who haunts the landing and keeps close watch over all the ncwcom- CTS as well as ouJgoers. He is very lucky John if he can manage to run the gantlet of those keen optics. As soon as the attack begins the Mongolian clutches with mighty grasp the handle of his carpet sack, for he knows that this is the firstpoint of advantage which the seeker for his two dollars will try to gain.
 The poll-tax man knows the trick of loosening the heathen's hold. Having secured the carpet sack he will not let it go until the tax has been paid. No Chinaman was ever known to pay his poll-taX checrfuily, and this John is no exception. He shakes his head jabbers and raves and tries to convince the tax man that he has not the slightest notion in the world of what he is after. That dodge will not work, however, for it is an old one and the tax gathcrcr, sitting screnely on the stuify carpet sack, wins the day, unless John values his two dollars more than he does his cheap luggage and fees for the boat; in which event the tax man wins a two-bit jumper" q pair of wornout ovcralls, some mysterious-looking provcndcr and pair of cork-sole shoes with turned up toes.
 - Once aboard his train John sits be- side a countryman of his, who is sure to turn out either a cousin or cousin of friend of his. They make few remarks about the weather, the state of the labor market and the chances of getting rich in a few weeks at the pidCtS NHlIncT Jncy drt DDulu. NOnc of these remarks are of lively nature In fact, John on the rail is the same stolid, lethargic John that he is any where else. He folds his loOscly-drapcd arms and takes little heed of anything, dozing away the long hours on the train as contentedly as if he was lolling at ease under the washhouse table. In fact, carload of Chinese is as much like carload of mummies as it is like anything.
 The nomadic instinct is SO deeply rooted in the Mongolian that he feels al- most as much at home while Scnrryng around the country as he does under his own roof tree. The intense desire to travel is without any doubt Tartar heritage, most of the forces of working Chinese ,who have come to this eonntryl heinz gathered from the great plains oi ~ S..sserh part of the empire. where the rowing isstinct is stropg and where many tribes are almost constantly on ''' so' No Superstition There.
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