The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-09-20

Will pay no all6DllOu 10 ullIl il Uo uUcc.
"When a man does it he loses his respect
ability in the eyes of his countrymen.
'This applies TO Cinnamon living in any
part of the country, and in the small towns
as we'll as the large cities.
"lf by refusing to register man is ar
rested, imprisoned or punished he can de-
pend Oh the Six Companies for relief.
''Mr. Rordan and another well-known
lawyer have been engaged by the Six CON-
panies to fight the registration law.
Each man In the United States will be
expected to pay one dollar to the Six Com
paEies for the expense of the suit. This
applies to all, no matter what his business.
1.-The expense of registration, with photo
graph, witness fees. etc, will be over SO,
while the expense of breaking the law will
be only one dollar.
"When the dollar is paid to the Six Com
panies permit ticket will be issued to the
payer for him to keep as a receipt and O
means of Identification.
1.-The money must be paid to the Six
Companies before the Chinese September
so that the expenses can be paid from the
start.
"a Chinamsn who does not pay will be
prevented from returning 10 bis own country
when he applies for his pass from the Six
Companies.
1.-The United States does not treat the
Chinese right, because it c0mpels no other
nation to do such things, and no other ma
tion in the world treats Chinese like the
United States does
This goes into effect the thirteenth day
OF July.
"BY ORDER OF THE SIX CoMPA-
MES"
The publication of their secret proclaim
alton somewhat amazed the Chinese resi-
dents of the city and doubtless upset some
OF their plans. for Oh the evening OF the 10th
inst. the officials of the great companies held
a meeting al 723 Commercial street.
Gee Chong Tone, the secretary of the Six
Companies, stated az the meeting that the
presidents OF the organizations thought ii
wiser to conceal their plans and regretted
that THE CALL had faIhomed their inten-
tons by publishing the proclamation
1t disconnected them somewhat as they
had Intended TO raise the money by assess
ments TO defray the legal expenses Of the
struggle they were TO make against the reg
istration law and then uumask themselves
Having been frustrated in their attempt
10 keep the matter secret the secretary was
willing to admit that by the dollar method
of assessment the companies expected to
raise 100000.
With this money they were to hire two or
three of the best lawyers in the United
States and TO pay court expenses.
Gee Chong Tone also stated that the Six
Companies lad appealed to the Imperial
Chinese Government on the subject.
DO the Six Companies here control the
Chinese all over the United States?" was
asked.
YES" answered Tone, and then he asked
quickly: What do you mean by control?
We are only benevolent societies and all the
Chinese who come here belong.
I'VE represent certain cantOns in China
and men from any part Of the country be-
long TO the company that represents it. We
don't ask them; they have nothing TO pay
and If they get in trouble we help them"
'Wny do the Six Companies object to the
GeaTy bill? All white men in this country
have to register in order TO vote. Why do
the Chinese object to registering"
. "We can do nothing until after May g.
1898. We can contest the law before that.
I'VE know our people wont register and
we want to be ready for every emergency.
"Our funds will be in by November, and
by that time we viii have an answer from
our Government at home.
1--WE don't know whether one arrest will
be made ora thousand, but we expect whole
sale arrests in every State. We will be ready
to take care of all of them"
Have you decided upon your Eastern
lawyers as yet?"
Yes but we don't care to say who they
are. They will be good men-the best that
money can hire.
The Six Companies cannot prevent any
Chinese who want TO return from going to
China at any time, butw will not help those
who register or refuse to help prove this
law unconstitutional"
King Owyang, the Chinese Vice. Consul
In this city, INDUCED in some strong talk
when interviewed by a CALL reporter re-
garding what action might be taken by the
Chinese Government.
The following is an extract from his In
tervew:
"As yet the Consul-General of this city
has had no instructions to take any action
in regard to the Geary bill.
Until the Chinese Minister at Washing
ton. d. c.. notifies US, we of the Consul
Generals office can and will only speak as
individuals.
ut is as an individual who has had more
opportunities for seeing and knowing, let
us say the more capacity for realizing the
injustice and unfairness manifested by your
people toward my own. thar others of my
countrymen that | now speak.
ITO start with, the Geary bill is gross
violation OF the treaty now supposed TO be
in existence between this Government and
the Imperial Government of China.
at seems as If your people think that
all they have to do is to keep such of
the provisions of that contract made be-
tween two great powers as may suit them
and violate such as they choose with I'M
punity.
MY dear sir, the United States Govern
ment. one OF the youngest on earth. is doing
what none OF the older Governments Of the
earth have ever felt they had the right to
do. unless as an incentive to war
mo Government OIL earth treats the Chi
neSe as the United States Government has
done and is now trying to dc.
III the United States wants rupture with
the Imperial Government Of China and
seeks il, let il then first declare the contract
which has been made between the two
countries at an end, NOT keep such of its
obligations as 1t thinks best, violate others
without regard to the pledges IL has made,
thAr al aI.Cs a.
keen every promise he has made in the face
of all this
'The Geary bill is unconstitutional and
against every principle of free government.
las i said before, under the constitution
OF the United States, every male child. of
whatever nationality, who is born in this
country is citizen. free and equal with all
the rest.
Thousands OF brave men have said so
again and again.
They said it in 1776. in 1912 and in 1860.
why, your War Of the Rebellion was
based upon the unfolding Of this principle
Of your governments
Put side by side the emancipation
proclamation and the bill known as the
Geary bill and let any honest man read both
of them and then let him, as free and
honest American citizen, answer this ques-
ton:
why should the grown-up child of
African parents, who were raised in the
jungle and brought here in chains, be a
citizen and voter when the educated child
Of Chinese parents, race that boasts of q
civilization dating hundreds of years back
of this nation, be made an outcast?
why should the American Indian, who,
when he chooses, slaughters and kills and is
only subdued by the bullet aud the bayonet,
be preferred to the Chinese boy or girl born
in the United States, educated Ia your
public schools. and the descendant of a
race that, SO far, has never lifted hand
against the injustice Of oppression by your
people?
Tell me honestly, man to man, which
are the better citizens to-day, the low class
of pauper-labor from Europe-tbe Hun
garians, the Scandinavians, the Italians and
the Greeks-or the Chinese laborers?
Justice for the negro, justice for the adj
herents of the Malta, justice for the class of
emigrants that have brought the cholera to