The San Francisco call., 1897-08-16

APPARENTLY
INACTIVE
Rather a Suspicious Condi-
tion of Quietude Over
the Law.
HLl OhN DV DEL LII UVlGh uLhL.
San Francisco Societies Do Not
Look With Favor on
Chicago.
LITTLE OR no IMMIGRATION now.
Collector Jackson's Energy Has Put
Stop to Illegal Ar
rivals.
LITTLE Or no IMMIGRATION now.
Collector Jackson's Energy Has Put
Stop to Illegal Ar
rivals.

Very little attention is paid In China
town to the reports rhata society has been
formed having for its o object the repeal of
he exclusion act. In TACT the Chinese
res dents of San Franci CO seem to be very
little interested in the matter, and while
all of them admit that they know of such
a society, and have heard of the effort that
is to be made, they say it is long ago.
news and nothing more is to be done.
They even go so ar as to say that Ii is no
good. That Wong Ching is not good
man. In fact there is suspicious unanim-
ity of opinion against the movement
among the Chinese merchants, and they
seem to decry the whole affair as being
som ething not worth talking about.
An influential member of one OF the So
cieties, however. gave the clew to the
whole m after of indifference when he SAID: :
why do we want a Chicago man to run
our business? We can do it better our
selves here in California. We can get up
our own society and do better work than
a man in Chicago"
It was learned that all the Chinese So
cieties in the City have taken action in
the matter ana the result has been that
they have decided to WORK without the
that it Is necessary that something be
done to relieve them from the stigma
which now rests upon them, and the work
of interesting the home Government has
been done by the merchan Is of San Fran
cisco. They claim that until their coun-
try is placed where she belongs with other
Nations in this country it is standing In
suit 10 their Emperor
DR.. Gardner of the Collectors office said
hat hQ hn6 of ha ri laf
time ago, but paid little attention to 1t, as
he did not belize We ii would ever material
ize into anything definite. He thought
there would be no possibility of the plan
succeeding and consequently gave the
matter little or no thought. He said he
could we'll understand The reason for the
sudden activity in the matter, for under
the new regime at the Custom-house it
was a most difficult matter for a China
man 10 get into this country unless he be-
lorged here. He said it was noticeable
that during the past years scarcely ship
arrived from China but carried many girls
and women. The last three ships that
came in had no girls or women, and he
thought it due entirely to the fact that the
Chinese have learned that they cannot
evade the law now as they could in the
past.
Members of the Housekeepers' Associa-
ton in Chinatown, that is the men who
deal in slaves and keep houses of evil re-
pute, not only refused to talk about the
matter but even denied that they had ever
heard of the movement. They were densely
ignorant about it nd did not even know
whether the exclusion law was a benefit
to them or not. They put on the usual
sphinx-like countenance and gave no evil
dence of any interest in anything except
a desire to be let thoroughly alone. The
general consensus of opinion among them
was summed up in one expression uttered
by disguised slave-owner when he said,
Newspapers got 100 much business"
1t is worthy of note In this connection
that since Collector Jackson has shown
that he will permit OF no tam pering with
the law the tide in Illicit i'm m grafton has
changed its course and San Francisco is
given a wide BERTH while Vancouver is
now getting the traffic. Some go by the
way OF Mex CO, and it has been learned
tn a: parties of from forty to two hundred
Chinese have been landed at Mazatlan and
Quay mas. where they are cared for by the
agents of the company which sends them
over. These Cinnamon make their way
to the border in parties OF two and three,
and under the guidance OF experienced
men slip across the line at points which
are loosely guarded.