The morning call., 1894-04-22
SOCIETY SHOCKED.
Chinese Social Circles in
Eruption.
Those Who Have No Right to Red
Topped Caps, the Insignia of
Nobility and Money.

Nobility and Money.
The GAG Chinese on the steamer Peru
have made little deal in red-tOpped caps
that does not meet with the appreciation
of the sons and daughters of mandarins
that reside among US.
Chinese society. in short, is threatened
with q social eruption that is something
akin to the little battles fought between
the cotton and kid gloved members of our
own 400"
The knob of red is an insignia of dis
tinetion and family pride, but in the case
of the Peru's Celestials il Is alleged that
Family pride
Must be denied
And set aside
And mortified,
According to the lines OF the opera, for
impo.ters, bold, discretionless frauds. are
about 10 lay claim to rights and titles that
only the direct descendants of Confucius
and personal friends of the great high
loss of China have an hereditary option
upon.
The usurper of our good society peoples
hospitality, who eats hsh with a knife.
wears frock coat at full-dress balls and
signs his name plain John Smith, without
any regard for the tender consideration
that was bestowed upon him by his pa
rents in his babyhood when they blessed
him with the middle name OF Ch8uncey,
or Wentworth, or Chesterfield, is not held
in greater contempt by the arlstocratic at
tendants of select" banquet or tea than
is the cadaverous-looking Mongol who
PAGES the decks of the Peru by the Chinese
society If "Legitimately Titled AsIaIics."
Admitted that true hearts are more
than coroncts," and simple faith in the In
efficiency of our exclusion laws more
worthy OF reliance than the free-to-pass-in
rights of him of Norman-or rather man
darin-blood, there is still stumbling
stone at the entrance to our gates that will
prevent, perhaps, the Peru's 646 from land
ing at any near date.
Chinese society and those of our Chinese
merchants who love and honor the little
red knob say that two-thirds of the heath
ems on the Peru are not entitled to wear
the vermiion mark of distinction any
more than has Chambiss, according to
Greenway. q right 10 fiaunt the mailed
glove of social combat in the face of the
selected troop of our local knights of the
cotilloD.
Chinese society has been called TO arms
and has an intention of asserting itself.
Some Of its members said gravely to
THE CALLS waterfront man-pardon the
notifying admissinn-that coolie had
no more right TO wear a Ied-knob cap than
King McManus would have to wear cor
sets and a swallow-ailed coat.
Knob means ALA Same merchant, ALA
same high muck-a-muck, declared the
speaker vehemeatly.
Him knob heap fine for big man; no
good for washman, no good for Vegetable
man.
Peru Chinaman no sabe knob. Him
no coed; him no lib here before He no
got IN light to wear anything but stlaw
hat"
where do they get the red tops from ?"
asked the reporter.
'Get IN China. Bad man, ALA same
highlander, sell I'm. Bad man say to him:
sabe. He say 60 shore. You good mer-
chant"
Whatever NAV be the truth in the
above-Quoted CslestiaPs confessions, this
much was learned to a certainty; only
about one out of every twenty-five Of the
new impostors on yellow-faced society can
speak English, and those who can con-
verse in the language cannot give q good,
righteous and wholly to- be- believed reason
for being possessed of mandarin caps.
A friendly interpreter volunteered the
information that when the Peru left
Hopg-Kong none of the GAG dared wear
the embems of good breeding until the
vessel was outside the marine league.
The laws of China are very strict regard
ing the imposition of common son OF the
sod upon the rights of a hand-raised, edi-
ble-birdsnest-fed aristocrar, reared in the
lap of luxury and recognized as having a
license to exist by the Emperor.
AT Hong-Kong the style was straw hats.
and only an occasional red-topped head
gear was seen above decks.
Here, at the docks of San Francisco, it
is different. The sign of nobility and
wealth is Haunted before the very eyes of
those heathens who recognize in the
wearers fakirs of the most pronounced
tyne.
1t is a bitter pill for the satIn-bloused
descendant of a noble genealogy to
swallow.
Furthermore. 1t il. like adding insult to
injury when the aforementioned gentle
man steps aboard the Peru at mealtime
and witnesses the socialstic frauds cross
ing their knees cooly-fashion aad all eat
ing ont of one common pot the plainly
seasoned rice Of the laboring Mongol.