Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-02-19
H1aHB1rpER on PICKET DUTY.

HIGHBINDER on PICKET DUTY.
These met and after o long consultation
they formed q pool or syndicate very much
Of the same nature as the great trusts Of to-
day. When their organization was CON-
pleted, the trust consisted of six companies
namely, the Ming Young, the Hop Woo,
the Kong Chow, the Yung Lo, the Sam
Yup and the Yang Woo.
They were not secret societies In our
sense Of the word, having no forms and
rituals, passwords or other mummery.
They were well organized and disciplined
business corporations. They brought over
the armies who built the Southern Pacific
and Central Paciffcy and in later years sup
Piled thousands to the sugar barons of the
Sandwich Islands, to the Panama canal,
to the miners and planters Of Peru, Chile,
Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia, Central
America and Mexico, and also to the plant
Grs and tobacco men Of Cuba and Puerto
Rico In the course Of their career they
are said to have brought across the Pacific
ever half million souls, Of whom quar-
Ter died, more than quarter are still 1iv-
ing in the new world, and the rest have
some back to theiEhative land with a bank
account, which, though small to the Amer.
loan eye, is large enough to make wealth
h the great Chinese empire
The Six Companies % they grow became
very successful bankers, diplomatic agents
and contractors. They started arbitration
and employment bureaus and charities Of
various sorts. Among these charities may
10 specified the care Of the sick, the regis
ration and oaretaking Of Chinese graves,
the transportation 81 tho bones Of tic
buried, the protection Of widows and o.
phans, the protection Of Cinnamon against
hoodlums, the protection Of Cinnamon
against the police and the enforcement, Of
Chinese claima They were Of great use to
To government, both state and national,
and endeayored to keep their oountrymen
NV abiding, peaceful and orderly. They
have from time to time employed methods
which are perfectly right In China, but
utterly at variance with our institutiaLA
OF these the chief 10 the institution Of the
sshighbinder, Or ''hatchet man, who is
8 curious Monaghan combination Of q
deputy sheriff, q policeman, q Adjective and
3 bravo. But twas with them choice be-
tween two evils Under the Chinese law,
where an agent embezzles, puts his money
n the name Of his wife, mother, father,
brother or any one else, all Of these and
their relatives likewise become liable for
the debt and all the expenses the creditor
sr the authorities are Obliged to incur. In
American law an insolvent can laugh at
his creditors, who see him driving in car
ylage and living In q palace belonging to
HIS wife, to whom he has presented these
thinga u. &
Chinese credit Is, of course, based upon
The Chinese system and would be impossi-
BE under American commercial law.
Most Cinnamon obey their own Laws in
this country, but q few have taken advan.
tage Of American laws to fleece, swindle
md rob their own people. In one case in
New York the treasurer Of q Chinese wild.
~ and orphans fund spent all the funds
rambling. The matter was brought up
!, BEFORE the agent Of the Six Companies and
| tie man was sentenced to make the sum
rood in one year. He laughed at the no
q 1toe, sent an insulting message to the pow.