St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-12-28
PlG TAILS In PLENlf.
They Are Swarming to Min
neapolis From Across the
Canadian Frontier.
This City Getting to Be a Fa-
vorite Rendezvous for
Them.
Why a Man-of-Wap Isn't
Needed to Carry Flour to
Russia.
Mckee on Whitcomb and
Briggs--Morrill and Sir
Edwin Arnold.

If Minneapolis does not watch her p's
and as pretty closely she will have a
full-tledged China town in her midst,
and it will not be of the illz that Hoyt so
cleverly portrays OH the mimic stage
either. Within the past few weeks
dozens of the loag-queued Celestials
have found their way into the city, and
If the statement made yesterday by a
well-knOwn railroad 5slicial is to be re-
lied upon, dozens more will soon fol-
low. These Cinnamon are the ones who
have not the legal right to dwell here
because of priority of residence to
the passage of the bill excluding the
MongolS from entering the country,
but ones who have been Smuggled into
the British dOminiOns, first, bag and
baggage, then finally Struggled into the
United States via Winnipeg and st. Vim
cent. 1t is well-known fact that
hundreds of Chinese are brought into
Vancouver and Victoria almost month
ly. They have no desire to remain
there, however, as the stolid and phleg-
matte English residents of those two
cities are inclined to frown upon labor
rendered by the scum of heather land.
The Chinese have the United States as
their goal, for they know if they can but
once put foot within the portals of I'm
Gle Sans dOminiOns their fortune is as
Sured. Accordingly every imaginable
subterfuge is INDUCED III to reach the
Mecca of their desires. Those who can
20 to the cOngenial climate of California
and other coast states, while others are
shipped over the Cadadian Pacific, and
either Struggled over the line below
Emerson, and near st. Vincent, or
landed in Canadian towns.
Although the government officials at
ST. Vincent deny that any Chinese come
over the line at this point, it is never
theless fact. They come over by doZ-
ems and when on this side Sre met by
semi Cinnamon, who eX-
erciSe TO advantage the knowledge they
have CLEANED here and assist their
brothers to find places Of refuge. Some
of the newcomers are dropped off at
Grand Forks, CrOokSton and Fargo,
While the remainder come TO Mime
apOlS and st. Paul. There are at least
a dozen who cannot speak or understand
a word of English in the laundries and
hop joints OIL Washington avenue. and
as many more scattered about i'm the
various other places OF a similar kind in
the city. Most of these have arrived
within the past three weeks and are
fresh from the land where tradition says
rats are looked upon as delicacy.
1t is not that Chinese are being snug
gled into the state that is so alarming,
but the fact that with nearly every one
of the newcomers comes more or less
opium. They bring along immense
quantities of the deadly narcotic drug.
They smuggle it across with them con-
cealed in their bouses, in other por-
tions of their clothes, and in some cases
in their shoes. 1t is not the gum, for
that is too bulky and not potent enough
in Its effect, but the extract, and, as the
saying goes, "a little of it goes a good
ways" 1t is very probable that the
government officials will be called upon
soon to take some decided action in the
near future, if this wholesale smuggling
is not stopped.