The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-08-03
CHINATOWN ID"
EMBROILED !.
over SLAVES.
The Feud Becomes More
Bitter Each Succeed !.
ing Day. .@.. i.
DENOUNCED As BLACKMAILERS. "
Trying to Impugn the Motives
Of the Members Of '= .:=."..
the Society. s. .=-... .... +.
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TIME FOR CITIZENS TO TAKE PART. .
A Crying Need for Action to Put
Stop to Slave Traffic in l.. T.
This City. s. +. s I.
TIME FOR CITIZENS 10 TAKE PART.
A Crying Need for Action to Put
Stop to Slave Traffic in s.. +. !.
This City. r.. .-.': +:

The case of Kan Kan OF, the girl de-:
tanned on board the China pending an in
vestigation, came before Collector. jack.
son yesterday afternoon for hearing. :
The efforts of the attorney for those who
desire TO have the girl landed were en-
tirely devoted to denouncing the Chinese
Society of English Education, which has
interested itself in the matter and which
has obtained the proof regarding the girls
birth and parentage. AS the Collector is
not empowered to administer an oath all
the testimony was simply statements
from the witnesses, and wide latitude was
permitted in the matter of asking leading
questions, of which the attorney was not
slow to take advantage. 49,.
1t was pretty conclusively proven that
the house where the woman, man and =
girl all say Kan Kan Oh was born was
at the reputed time OF her birth used .
entirely as a storeroom, and that no sleep,
ing apartm we're there. The attorney
for the defense made strong statements.
regarding the character of the men who
posed the mem bership Of the society,
and claimed that they were well known
as blackmaiers, who had no other object
for forming the society than to wiring
money out of slaVe-dealers and houses of
evil repute. Colonel Jackson demanded q.
that they bring proof to-morrow. of the .
fine themselves to this point and to- the :.
point of the identification of the bouse
where the child was said to have been;
born. .':.:. -
TIE publication of the threats of death
against certain mem bers of the society is: =
still causing much excitement In China 8
town, and it is believed that several muir. J.
ders will be the result, notwithstandIng g:
the fact that the men who are on the. list
claim that they are not afraid of injury =;
being done than. All the efforts of / he
men interested in having slaves broug ht;'
in contrary to the law are being bent. TO >
the one point of proving that the society =
is for the purpose OF extorting blackmal IL:
and it is probably another phase of the:
Sam Yup and See Yup factional trouble
which stirred up Chinatown recently and. .
which caused change in the personnel
of the Chinese consulate in this, City, =. ;.
On the other hand the members of the
society say they have been approached by !.
emissaries from the slave-deaIers' associ-
alton with offers of money if they would ID.
desist in their efforts to put stop. to the. ::
illicit practice. They say that Sunday.
night one of the agents of the association .
went to their rooms and offered them $120 =;
if they would refrain in the CO SIC now. be-
fore the Collector. This bride was refuSed;
and the men say they will persist in the
work ana if they can procure evidence Of :
any other girl having been illegally:
tor. They claim there are not less than
400 slaves now held in Chinatown and
that great number of these have been.
brought into the country since the exclu-
sion act went into force. The society was
organized about six months ago and as
they have not yet accumulated fund for q.
the prosecution of the work they are:
greatly hampered in it, AS the other side:
is we'll fortified with cash and can do any
thing from fighting suit through the
courts to hiring highlander to chop:up
an offending Chinaman. =:
Those who oppose the society say that :
the mem bers whose names are made pub ::
lie are but blinds and that the real men ::
are never known as being connected with it;
According to the books. of the society the
president is Dear Woo, who is recognized.
as one of Chinatown's most prominent
merchants. When seen regarding the e;
matter he expressed himself as being in :
earnest in his endeavor to nave the traffic ,
stopped and said that while he contem-
plated no dangerto himself he knew that
the men interesting in slave dealing were
so well fortified financially that they
could go to any: length in their effortsto
cast odium on the society and its work:
The publicity which tue matter has OBJ
tanned has had the effect of bringing
prominently before the people the TACT
that slavery does exist in San FRANCISCO
and an effort will be made to have mass
meeting of prominent citizens take the
matter up and memoriaIize> Con gress In !.
the m after and see if something cannot
be done to stamp it out. 1t is a matter In :.
which those who are directly interested
in mission work in Chinatown are ex-
pected TO take active part and the prom "
inent ministers OF the City will probably
take the inltiatory steps in the matter az
it directly affects their work. =. -. -. :
1t is claimed by the secretary OF the So !.
ciety that the names of prominent MEM ,.
bers of the club have been forged TO ne ::
.mands upon the keepers of slaves, demand.
ing money, and this has brought from the
cub poster, which had been prominently
placarded all over Chinatown to the effect
that such demands are unauthorized and
that any one asking for money or receiv-
ing money in the name of the society is
fra nd. -. -