The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-10-24

READING THE PLACARD.
plain about each other to the white po-
lice. In each city where there is any
considerable Chinese population there
is also a local Chinese government, to
which the pigtailed parties will take
their complaints every time in prefer
ence to the American police or courts.
In New York there is even a Chinese
mayor whose power over the residents
of Chinatown is very great. In this
way it occurs that many heinous
crimes are committed down in Mott
and Pell streets of which Superintend-
ent OF Police Byrnes knows nothing,
even OF the doings OF the Highbinders
society-probably the most extensive
and most carefully organized associa-
ton OF murderers in the world.
The highbinders have been much
written about, but it is necessary TO
state that they are probably under the
patronage of the Six Companies itself
and that to the Six Companies nearly
every Chinaman in America owes
everything but his life. This great COM
mercial and general. supervising
organization has its headquarters in
China, and it pays the passage or other
wise secures the gratitude of nearly
every Chinaman coming to America
1t absolutely controls the supplies,
food and otherwise of ell the Cinnamon
IN the United States and Canada, and,
more important than this, it attends to
H.. - -
the bones of all Cinnamon dying in the
United States Unless this kind office
is performed no Chinese soul can go to
Chinese paradise. The highbinders
commit murder with impunity. Any
Chinaman who transgresses the laws
of the Six Companies is likely to be
stabbed in the back and stabbed hard.
chances The highbinders will also
contract to kill off almost any China
man at bargain counter rates.
Well, in the midst of all this vileness
of thieving and blood spilling, one 9TH
er crime goes merrily on. 1t is the
procuring of white girls for Chinese
companionship. Insiduous efforts in
this direction are constantly carried
on. Once a girl is spotted as being
likely to yield to the Chinese idea, no
effort, no patience, no villainy is neg
lected to accomplish the end. 1t was
into such surroundings as these that
the poor girl, who is my informant,
fell during her missionary work. How
she came to smoke her first pipe of
opium she scarcely knows herself, but
she knows that she did it at the solicit
tation of a Chinese Christian" whom
she had converted, or thought she had.
She had confidence in his professions,
and she fell
| first met her in 4 refuge for women
of the class towhich she had descended.
She was making an effort to reform
It was love for the drug that dragged
her back. Since then she has been
travelling the old read with more rapid
feet than ever. For q long time she
was the belle of the colony of white
girls in Chinatown. The marks of dis
sipation have long made that doubtful
honor impossible, however. She has
fallen pretty low. but she has not
the only person in all Chinatown to
call the attention of the outside public
to this plot against the japanese,
which has lately developed.
The details Of the plot she does not
know. She brought copy OF the
proclamation to the office with her.
and fac-simile and translation OF |
it are herewith printed. 1t appears in |
the original on blood-red paper, OF |
about the size of two ordinary laundry |
checks. and that it has been circulated |
in large numbers and from some we'll |
organized head is shown by the fact !
that they were printed from type in |
stead 81 being written with brush asis |
customary with most Chinese docu- |
ments.
The Chinese consul in New York. Mr.. |
hsu Maj hwang, very naturally knows
nothing about the matter. Even if the |
order Of the affair came from Chinese /
oulclai.tom direct. the American con- 1
suls would not be likely 70 be notified. !
There would be too much risk about a /
proceeding OF that sort, although a /
consul would obey any orders he might 1
receive from the home government. no /
matter what they were. The home /
government has j persuasive little |
way Of cutting off the heads OF for /
eign consuls who do not obey orders /
when they return 70 China. and no
man can run away-he Inust re- 4
turn. There are two very good
reasons to make him fail ~
Shlrk responsibility in that way. +
IL would not s2ve his life 10 re-
nam away from China. for he would
be spotted hy official murderers in This
and would be sure to come tc
Eriei- AMI. besides losing his own head !,
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