Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-05-18
FORT WORTH CHlNAMEN
EXPRESS THEIR VIEWS OF THE
oEARY EXCLUSION LAW



The Geary exclusion set has bceu pro.
nounced valid by the supreme court OF
the United States and the question il,
what are the Chinese going TO do abou.
There are about seventeen Chinese
laundrles IN this city each employing
from two to six hands. There IS also a
merchant. dealer in Jnpanese
aud Chinese fancy goods. The
latter, whose place Of business
IS located 81 TO4 Houston street. Is
% years Of age, aud has been IN this
| country since 1867, He speaks English
very well, has Travelled IN this country
| extensively, and Is very Intelligent. He
| says that II the United States had never
allowed the Chinese ~ come To this coun-
/ try none would now he here. But after
/ opening our gates TO Immigration irDs
/ China, as China opened hers to Us
| they came b. lhouaands, and trusting to
| the good faith of this country, had by
| years VI toll established themselves In
| business. He bad been IN this country
| Tor thirty-cight years. had built Mp bus.
ness here. and II had cost him sllOO to
| Import his stork. Ii The supreme court
| decides that the Gcary act Is cunStilu'
/ uoual, VIII the government reimburse hlin
/ for the expense 10 which he was put, by
| irastIug In tho good faith VI the govern
mcnt; lie looked upon biz right To re-
| tiiiu uttf Us an lillNlfi fnWtfhNA NilH
the United States. and has congress the
power 10 pass an act impending the va
iidiiy Of cOntractsi II the United States
lars exclude the Chinese and send those
hack who have not registered. china viii
surely rclalinte by excluding all Ameil-
cans frnm the Celestial Empire. ms
wiil cause great hardship among those
American merchants who have Invested
thousands VI dollars Ia business there,
and who have brnt MP larre aud proiiia'
BILE c0mmrrciai CONNECTIONS.
Among the lnnndrymcn. the most In
irllivcni man met 10y tho pp1rlrr was
sun Wing Sins. Dl kt-k street, lie
said that the Chinese minister NC Wash
irvtun advised all hi. people IN this coun-
try not To register aud to pay nv attention
TO The law In consequence Of this nd
vie. not single Chinamau IN Fort Worth
had registered. This i said 10 be Tree
country" hut as such 10 certainly treuts
Us yery unfairly II disrrminHtcs against
rs for no other rras0n than The donna.
gagucs cry VI Chinese cheap labor
That This cry IS utterly and completely
false, o moments thought on the part
oil ans fiir-ininded and well.informH
American viii he sufficient 10 show. For
Instance, most Of the Cinnamon In this
country arr engaged In the laundry husl'
ncas DO we charge less than the Negro
aud Irish washcrwomcn we snppihnrdf
the same work than do the steam lnnn'
dries owned aud controlled by white
American citizens They charge
. cent. a pair for cuffs while our chrrge
IL two pairs for 10 cents. In point OF
morals. We are certainly superior 10 many
other clusscs Of Immigrants. against
whom there & no such crusade We are
never drunk, or disprderly; we never be-
come Migrants, or trnnips; we are rarely,
ii ever. found Ia your jails OF poarhouses'
but, on he contrary, even our worst enc
mics must adult that we are peaeehblc,
sober aud industrious.
Hong lee Of 3O5 Maia street. was
yrfy suspicious II the reporter. and al
though he evidently understood every
word tho latter snid. his nue reply TO all
question was no snbe.' lie has three
men wording for him, none OF whom
sam Wing Of 1908 Main street said
that he thought the law uncnllcd for, to
say nothing OF It's injustice There may
b lee enough Cinnamon In New York,
Washington and San Francisco TO alarm
those who pretend TO fear US, but
throughout the rest of the country We
form but an Infinitely small per cont ol
the Formulation. SAN, evidently Thought
that those who fear chiursr- competition
would have yelled lire" IN the dcluge.
Sam lliAg Of l2ll Main street pr.
tended 10 know but little about It, and
seemed 10 care less. lie finally said,
however. that he believed the Sir Com
pnnics would win the test ease before
The supreme court. He received regu
larly newspaper from China, the Pckin
Gazette, which would probably arrive
today or tomorrow. when he can tell
more ahnui II.
sam Yici, OF 100 Main street could not
speak English well enough to express his
opluion,
oiia"t " earn This MI Was als S'' N" S case s
with Sam Leo Of 1913 Maln street
Hing Lee OF Fifteenth street, Sam Hop
Of nh ~ Main street and Wing Ch0nI
Of TOG Houston street. all of whom eN-
hihitcd u true Oriental apathy IN the
matter
The Gazette reporter next visited Duel,
Sing Lung Of 1Ot Houston street. the
old dealer In japanese aud Chinese
"curius," who was found to be the most
Intelligent and outspoken Of the China
men 10 this city. While the reporter
was emerged IN conversation with him,
a crippled white woman came In asking
aims Lung gave her piece Of silver,
and as she went out, he said ''rhrcc
or four people cone In every day and |
always give them something l make
my living out OF the American people
and cannot turn their poor away
empty"
This little Incident reminded the writ.
or Of story, which j. part of Amer
lean history, aud which can be verified
by the records of the navy department.
Twenty years ago when he was ia Chi
ma he was introduced, at Hong Kong,
TO an aged Ihlnnman, who was known
to every body as Bumboat sam. ani
who was treated with such marked re.
spcci by all the officers and men that
he asked the cause OF II, when he was
told that during the Civil war an
American fleet OF war ships came 10
Hong Kong, out OF provisions ana mon.
ey. The paymasier went ashore TO NO
gotiate some United States bonds with
the English bankers there, whom h.
found 10 his chagrin and indignation
would not accept them. They pretended
To believe that our government was all
broken up aud It's bonds worthless This
placed the fcet In very serious prcdic.
ament. Where would they procure pro.
visionsl What were they to do. In
the midst q The dilemma Bnmboat sam
came % in his boat with several large