The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-05-28

cisao to have the presidents Of these COM
paai es to settle their troubles. There Is
no appeal from them. The Cinnamon
who refuse 20 ohey them viii certainly
disappear and no one but the Six Com
paaaes viii know what has become OF
theta. As TO their business there is no
doaos but they have been engaged for
years in smuggling Opium. the importing
Of Chinese women for immoral purposes
AMI the importing Of Chinese iaborers IN
defiance Of the exclusion act. IL Is esti-
mated tha: . handsome Chinese girl
Of II 70 II years OF age IS worth
xhan landed in San Francisco clear of the
customs officers $500. White men are
h:rsd 10 perjure themselves n swearing
thHt these girls we're born in America. re-
tu,is 20 China for IA education and then
coisas home again. Hundreds OF women
haze been brought IN this way and the
Sia Companies pay the perjurers and hire
tn. lawyers 70 defend the cases. The re-
posser. Hsrfon. TO whom I have already
referred. ran two white men to the earth
abssSis six months ago. They had just
lsrded Chinese girl aged only 10 years.
The men were arrested and the
girl was found 1t . disreputabie
pisee where she had been taken imuedi-
ateay after being landed. The perjurers
mcaey furnished by the Six Companies
ana LAWYER Was paid by the same organ
ixasion. II 10 estimated that il cost the
com panies between 5000 and s.. 90 TO
lar.d this girl and the companies stick to
their own people TO the last. They spare
noexpense 10 accomplish their ends and
thcy are honest in carrying out the most
imc,orai Of their contracts"
How about the Chinese lotteryf" /
asked.
This is one Of the great sources Of reve-
nue. for the companies. They run lotteries in
every city and town in the United States.
CaEada, Mexico, British America and
Alaska. The lottery 10 honest as far as
thss drawing is concerned. 1t is Chinese
affair and man can win il he happens to
m,.rk the right number Of spots on his
A drawing is held twice . day. morning
ana evening, and il is estimated that the
Si4 Companies make so. 600 q day out Of
il. This lottery is corrupting gan Fran
cisco. The whites as we'll as the Chinese
engage in il. The police have tried to
break il up and both the city and state
base passed laws against it. but it does .
greater business today than ever"
suppose . Chinaman refuses to obey
the Six Companies, Mr.. QUINN" said 1.
w hat happens then?"
''ln the first place he Is ostracised," was
the reply. Next begins the persecution
tha. viii ruin his business If he is q mer-
chant. or cost him his place If he is a la
boser. Ali help in time Of sickness or H.
nas,cial trouble will be denied him. and
fourth, his bones will have to lie after his
cleaned, scraped and polished and sent
back to China. This means disbarment
from the heaven Of Confucius forever.
So much for lawful persecution. II
hi. crime Of disobedience is i'm
pottant enough it may cause his
death. and this will be brought about by
tn. Highlander societies Of the Chinese, o:
the Tongs. as they are called. The Six
Companies claim that they have no con-
neetion with the Tongs, but not loag ago
when two OF these societies we're engaged
in u murderous war upon each other and
the Chinese consul general and the Chi
nose merchants joined with the police to
try to stop their murders. the Six Compa-
MES refused to do thing or give dollar
to hinder the crime or to punish the
guilty."
'+What are the highbinders :" asked.
THE Chinese highlander. WAS the re-
ply, us Chinaman who never works, but
lives off Of the earnings of bad women and
the proceeds Of blackmail. He doesn't
need to have . mans secret to threaten
hIil. but he has merely to go to him and
say. Unless you pay the highlander So
n %sy beor. g ss,srd. as night iss eass
Wall kill you There is no half way
measure about 1t. and should the mer-
cf ant thus blackmailcd cause the high.
binders arrest, his doom is sealed
Tae highlander cares nothing for
the law. Covering himself with
a coat o! mail made either of
tpa steel chains or of twenty or thirty
tkicknesses of newspaper quilted together
anil made into garment that covers the
eIsire body from the throat to the thighs,
he arms himself with q long-barreled re-
viewer and knife and goes into the street
ai,.i waits for the man he is to kill. When
the man comes along he begins his work,
reeardless Of the presence of the police.
aiad he finishes 1t, though he may know
he is TO hang for ii the next day. This
scnnds horrible. but such things have
been done in San Francisco, an d will, l
doubt not. he done again. Only a few
weeks ago one Of these men, named Lee
Sing. killed Chinaman named Yik with
three policemen in sight Of him. He had
cisty, which sentenced him to kill
thss man Iik. and he killed him.
There were four men killed by the
htghbinders at this time. They
wsre killed because they had registered
themselves and had urged other Cinnamon
tc do the same; In other words. 10 obey
the laws of the United states. The high
let's as 10 who should kill the men. and
they were all killed according TO the draw
irg. DO you wonder that the Chinese are
afraid to hight their own people rather than
s,ss laws OF the United Staies7 have had
opposition of this kind to contend with
esir since have been IN office out here.
have promised To protect the Cinnamon
who have oheyed the laws: but what can
yDu dor /, IS an outrage, but how can
yau help it9 You have 10 fight organ zed
cssme and organized money"
Il suppose the Chinese OF this city are
vHlN wealthy -
Yes: there are at least twenty million
aires among them. and the - coo Chinese
% san Francisco have their hands on ali
ths Chinese money In the United States.
As Tor rich men. take. for instance, Wong
list. one OF the twenty Chinese million
ares Of San Francisco. IL. owns little
Store on Dupont stree. and the room he
occupies Is only ~ hy 10 bus he has
hsanches m every town IN Southern Cali
to<nia, and he has establishments IN Den
ver. Salt Lake, Kansas City, Omaha. II.
Louis. Chicago. Minneapolis. 81. Paul.
Indianapolis and New York. His branches
IL these other towns have smaller branches
rsi,a:ing over the whole country, and he
gets reports from every one of them. The
Chinese IA New York and Washington
tsty report Ia the SIX Companies here Just
tNc SAME rs the inaa who iives few doors
agav from the colnpanys Offices. Wong
Hat himself controls more than GOA ia
teeers and the most OF these have beea
sriuggied into this country. II costs \
tAlna,nan <s1n ~ re shrugged into the
| nitct states, and he pays this money
ever 10 the six Companies out 81 his
wages. lie Is landed and rented out ~
ihe companies 10 one o: these riea CANA
men. Wong Fat for instance. at So a
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