The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-10-14
a JOKE ON UNCLE SAM.
Home-GOinE Chinese Work the Cows
eminent for Their Passage.

HOme-GOinE Chinese Work the GOVS
eminent for Their Passage.
'Melican man think'm smart
Think'm Chinaman no smart. He, he.
Chinaman fool'm. Heap big JOKE on
Mclean man. Ha, ha, ha."
Wah Foon, second-rate politician and
decentralization, held his SIDES
and guffawed uproarious.y.
Come right down to it, this pig-tailed
Rainey of the Celestial quarters had
right to ha-ha Worse, all Of China
town is with much difficulty suppress
ing its mirth over new dodge, by winch
Uncle Sam is being played for good
thing"
When a heather gets tired of this
country and wants to return to has ma
tive fowery kingdom nowadays he does
not have to bother his barbered heau
about a grub stake, passage price OF
anything else in the way of expense. lie
is sent home by this government-and
that's where the joke on Uncle sam
comes in.
| When congress passed a law reqnlr-
| ing all Chinese residents Of Am "a to
register and provide themselves with
certificates showing that they had
bowed to the will of the government IL
was hoped that by this means the fed
eral authorities could keep tai, ON its
Chinese population and eFe"tus.iy reg
u,ate immigration of this glass,
The officials were clothed with aU-
thoritv to seize and deporr after given
date, all CelestiaIs found within the
boundaries Of the United States who
could not show that they had complied
with the regulation by exhibiting the
necessary certificates. This was gooC
enough as far as it went, but it appears
that it went not far. True, the Chinese
when they once got started registered
in droves-5O. 900, for instance, at this
port alone Duplicate certificates OF al
of these registrations are piled up with
in the local custom house building Au
inasmuch as no index of the same was
ever compiled, it is next to an impossi
biity for the government officers Il
tell who has or who has not registered
Their ONLY recourse is to keep sharI
eve out and grab every Chinaman VIII
cannot show a certificate.
Now, it is this very state of affair
l that gives the "heathen Chinee" the OF
portunity to exhibit the superiority @
/ his cunning and ingenuity. 1t has pre-
vided him with the means of enjoying
,, free trip to China whenever he takes
notion.
Here is the modus operandi: All ST
wants to go home. He has enough G
America and American gold. He gof
; to certain agency in Chinatown Whlc
makes a business of purchasing certit
Gates for the purpose Of reselling thei
to Chinese who are Struggled into III
- country and are naturally nervous
II their chances of remaining. He il
L creases his pile by bartering away b
passport.
The agency's contract does not cea!
:, with the mere purchase of the pape
y One of the minions is dispatched to Il
- United States marshaps office with Il
Il information that one All Sim who CO
be found at this place or that plac
D has no certificate, and consequently h
> no right to sojourn in this countr
The marshal has the law before bin
. and has no alternative but to 90 an
= seize the supposed contraband. T
} man has no certificate, of course. WI
Is Uncle Sam undertakes to deport,
= must pay the bill.
III No wonder Wah Foon ripples vi
ie glee.
-, The federal officials say there is
IN help for 1.-THE law prescribes VIII
It they shall do, and perforce they mi
g do it.-San Francisco Call.