Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-09-24

BY roofing in the filth 81 the streets make their
home With the family. Al the surroundings
are indescrihably squalid. and the Icople have
no morals worth mentioning. On the whole. Il
is rot surprising that they should evince such
anxiety 10 come 70 America, especially when such
advantages are offered them here In connection
With religious instruction.
uSpryEborrD MORAL sESsr.
Ethnoicgist.. who make the races % the
world their study, have not been able 30 dis
cover any other people in whom the moral sense
seems TO be 90 little developed a. II q in the
Chinese OF the lower classes. beyond all othe-
varieties OF human beings they are sensual. fcr
women they have no respect whatever. They
nave no notion OF amusement except In vice %
one KIND OF another. Tho Chinese quarter %
San francisco Is pest hole. In a space cover
ing eight blocks $1,000 alrnond-eved denizens
are crowded, and within those limits are $50
gsmhhng dens, los di-orderly houses and %
opium joints. IL is said that missionary work
IN San Francisco during the last forty wears has
NOT Drought into the fold Of Christianity Q
aoken hinese converts who can be vouched
ior' There are only about 10. 900 Chinamen IN
New York and Bi ooklyn, hut their con tributioa
70 the VICE Of the metropolis is enormous ana
the police are Obliged 60 keep them under con-
slant surveillance. The celestial NAV snare a
Few hours on sunday 70 nirt and '-fnAkce mash
as he has learned 20 call IL, at the Sabbath
school, but he drops the catechisrs % take IN
the opium pipe and play fsn-tan or very nlely
70 indulge IN yet more reprehensible pursuits.
IL Is worth mentioning incidentally that the
American girl can never have any reason Zoe
taking IL for granted that her pig tailed wooer
has not already at least one wife in ASIA
strange TO ray. Miss Campbell. superintera-
ent OF one OF the Sunday schools, IL quoted as
saying that il is the Young women t..cbers
who usually do the love making
Many OF the Cinnamon In Mott ard peli
streets, who do not belong 90 the sunday
schools, have white wives. The latter are
mostly Irish women. Newspaper reporters
have frequently interviewed them for the pur-
pose OF finding out why they selected husbands
from tins ailen race, and their replies have
been uniformly 10 the effect that the Chinese
made very eligible spouses. neither coming
nome drunk and beating them nor squhndering
the family subsisienoe for whisky. babies and
young children. half white and half Chinese.
are becoming plentiful in New York
TOO GREAT A PRICE TO PAR.
A clergyman of this city, speaking ot the
Chinese Sunday schools the other day, asked
what would be thought of il IL an advertising
notice should be printed by a church saving,
"NantsH. 100 Young Irishmen. Germans, Hun
garians or Italians 80 attend our sunday school,
Each young man will be provided with a Young
lady teacher, who will devote the whole of the
time OF the lesson 10 him alone"
The Rev. DIR. Valentine A. Lewis Of Brock
lyn, who has been prominent for wears in mis-
slonsry work, remarked, The work of fedemp-
tion ID divine, but Won must not take the fair
daughters of this land a. sacrificial victims aud
expose them TO the evil OF close relation. with
those who are not innocent boys but shrewd
men, deep IN the knowledge Of hoathenish i'm
morality"