The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-25
YANG VI GIVES TEN DAYS
See YupS Express Scorn for
Their Minister'S Proc
IamatiOn.
Government VIII Probably Be Urged
to Deport the Heads Of the
Four Companies.

Great indignation prevailed among the
See Yups yesterday at the hand the Chi
nese Minister at Washington has taken i'll
trying to end their boycott against the
Sam Yups. People we'll versed in the
affairs of Chinatown consider that his
proclamation has added to the complica-
tions, and the most optimistic can see
nothing but trouble ahead.
Yang Yu's proclamation does not at
tempt to strike directly at anything so in
tangible as the new organization of the
See Yups, which has its headquarters at
the corner of Clay street and Waverley
place. 1t strikes at the four companies
that are supporting the new organization.
"If within ten days." says the proclama-
ton, "the chiefs of the Wing Yungs, Shue
Kings, Hop Wahs and Kong Chous do not
come to the Consulate and pledge them
selves to do all in their power to suppress
the boycott, those chiefs will be held re-
sponsible for the unlawful proceedings Of
the See Yups and will be deported to
China"
To Judge from the indignation expressed
by the See Yups yesterday there is little
probability that the end OF the ten days
will find the four companies kow-towing at
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known to be morally responsible for the
new organization that is conducting the
boycott, but they know that the truth can
not be brought home to them. Speaking
of this organization yesterday DR.. Masters
said:
II can only compare it to the case OF
Adullum, to which every one that was in
distress, every one that was in debt and
every one that was discontinued gathered
bo, ho Goncu1 fo1H q
only few days ago that it had become a
rallying point for fifteen highlander so
cieties that the police disbanded some
years ago.
'tThe headquarters are at the corner OF
Clay and Waveriey, and that is the tri-
bunal to which the See Tups who are ar
rested for buying at Sam Yup stores are
taken. The fines inflicted vary from 81 to
500, but the men arrested pay in silence
and never tell who are their judges-they
would expect to be killed if they did.
Lately they have taken to molesting
our Christians on the streets. The other
day five of our See Yup men were taken
up and fined dollar for buying cents
worth of peppermint oil at the Sam Yup
store. Nothing could induce him to swear
out warrant, because he said he had a
wife and child and wanted to live, and that
is the way with all of them, they have no
courage to complain. If one man could be
found willing to swear out warrant the
police could break up the whole thing in
twenty-four hours.
"As the boycotting tribunal was modest
ing our Christians the other day Rev. DR..
Conditt of the Presbyterian Mission, DIR.
Morris of the Baptist Mission and l went
to the headquarters on Clay street and
Waverley place. We asked who were the
head men there and the men we saw
said they did not know. you tell us what
you have to say and we will tell them.
How can you, if you do not know them p
we asked, and all the satisfaction we could
obtain was that they knew people who did
know them. That is how the organization
is managed. 1t is impossible to discover
the responsible parties. We left word that
our Christians were not to be molested.
and so far the request has been respected"
When asked whether it was probable
that the four com papies would come to
terms within the ten days DR.. Masters
said: 'If the Consul General or Yang Yu
had the power to cut off their heads the
four companies would be on their knees
before them, but as it is they will only
snap their fingers at the proclamation"
There are other people in Chinatown
who are not of this opinion, but think that
the chiefs of the four companies will be
brought to terms by threats against their
families in China, or that the Minister will
use all the influence he possesses at Wash
ington to induce the American Govern
ment to deport them.