The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-03-11
CHINESE BOYCOTT CASE
Continued from Page six.)

when left it in the cupboard as / hur-
ried away"
When did you first discover the loss
of the book?"
''on the night of the 2sth of Febru-
ary''
is there a book or a record of the
proceedings of your assembly for 1892
There was one there this morning"
Colonel Sanders asked the witness
some questions about labor organiZa
tions making a combined effort to
maintain standard of wages. and Mr..
Wines objected, saying the laws of the
state recognized and permitted an or
ganiZati0n and even conspiracy for
such a purpose.
The colonel questioned Mr.. Weldon
as to whether he at one time served on
a committee which had the Chinese
question under consideration. 4 num-
Der of indirect questions on the sub
ject We're asked.
Il understand what you are trying
TO get at said the witness. and If
you VIII let me tell YOU in my own way
| will tell you all about it,
''All right" assented the attorney.
The matter came up in our assem-
bly, through a communication from the
Hotel and Restaurant Keepers asso-
ciation,' said the Witness The COM
munieation presented the fact that the
working portion of the girls of this
town were drifting toward Galena
street and the male portion toward
Mercury street; that the native girls
were driven To prostitution and some
of the girls born in this country and in
this city We're driven into a life of
shame because they could not get hon
orable employment. The matter was
brought to the attention of the assem-
bly, in that way. and we We're asked If
the assembly would not send ii COM
mittee 10 meet with the committee of
the Hotel association TO confer and de-
wise means TO get employment for
white girls and discuss the labor prob
lem along that line"
Colonel Sanders started in to discuss
public morals and the social evil with
the witness and received some very apt
replies to his questions.
Then il was a committee for the
cultivation of public chastity" said
the colonel.
Not exactly; rather committee for
the cultivation Of empty stomachs."
And the assembly proceeded on the
hypothesis that poverty and prostitu-
ton are allied?"
No. but in my opinion ii is poverty
that drives women to prostitution nine
times out of ten"
is It not well known fact that the
poor people of this country are the
most chaste and exemplary"
Il do not speak of the poor, but of
the absolutely destitute-those who do
not know from one day to the other
where their next meal is to come from. =
rs ii of any consequence so long as
they get it? Take no thought of the
morrow.
They probably think different" re-
piled Weldon. You probably have never
been in doubt as to where your next
meal was to come from"
did such case as you refer to ever
come under your observation"
My experience with womankind IS
that she would work at anything rather
than prostitute herself, but when 1t
comes to question of hunger and des-
peration some would rather enter a life
Of shame than commit suicide
DO you know an instance OF that
kind?"
Yes"
Give the name of the girl"
Mr.. Weldson said he did not know her
name. but he related an instance of a
young girl coming into the restaurant
where he is employed md telling him
that she had tried all means to get hon.
orable employment and had failed and
that the only thing left open to her was
a life of shame.
Who was the girl and who was pres
ent at the interview"
Il don't know her name"
do you know whether the girl came
from bagnio and was trying to work
you for a meal2"
From my knowledge of that class of
girls, ! would say she did not come
from house of prostitution" The wit
ness said he told the girl that he would
look around and try to get her employ
ment.
rs there a human being in Butte"
Il don't know" said the witness. in
terrupting Colonel Sanders question.
- who would refuse. under such an
alternative. to give woman employ
ment?" asked Mr. Sanders completing
his question.
1T would seem so from her state
ment."
rs 1t not fact that from time inn
memorial people have been hungry
THAI ant-aates my recollection, re-
piled the witness.
$50 far as your observation extends.
and it seems TO be wide. is that not so?"
1T Is not so.
Colonel Sanders then returned TO the
boycott question, but he had asked bus
one question, and before the witness
answered 1t the examination was adj
journed for the day.