The San Francisco call., 1901-12-05
BOTH SIDES READY
FOR THE CONTEST
Chinese Lecturer Travels East,
While Congressman. Woods
Gathers Data.

iii upon Ch1nGS6
exclusion law comes up before Con-
II gress, Hon. s. D. Woods, who repre-
sents the Second District of this
State, has been gathering data from all
sources. There is no inconsIderable Chi
nese population in his district and ne is
supplementing his personal knowledge
with that of others who have been more
closely in touch with them.
The following letter has been sent to
him from this city:
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 5, 1901.
Hon. S. d. Woods, Member Of Congress-
Washington, d. C.-Sir: In answer 10 your
request for a statement of the moral cond1-
tion of the Chinese in San Francisco. re-
spectfulIy submit the following:
My experiences during the past twenty-five
years as organizer of Chinese Sunday-schools
in Eastern America, as a missionary in China
and to the Chinese of the Pacific Coast ana
as an official Chinese Interpreter in the Fed
eraI courts of California, have led me 10 oD-
serve with much interest and eVer-grOWlnS
concern the conditions surrounding the Ch-
nese laborers in California and the proDaDIs
effect of those conditions upon the home low
ing people of our own land, as well upon
1 do not speak from racial prejudice. have
none What have to say about the Chlhese
with whom 1 have come in such close CON
tact is said from a sense of duty and with the
hope that it may call attention TO the alarm
teTious- fetid atTnosphere Of the Chinatown Of
San Francisco apparent 10 any WOrher
amc lg the Chinese of that quarter.
In the sprng of 1856 / had occasion TO ao-
dress Sunday evening audience in the Church
of Strangers in New York City. Upon that oc-
casion 1 said in effect that during ,c my nce
of China from whence the Chinese OF Calltor-
mia have mostly come / had been given eX-
ceptional opportunities for observing and COM
pairing the Chinese who returned home from
California with those who had never , leII
1 was strongly in favor of the restriction laws
and of making them even more restrletlve;; ; pe
| loaf of he Hd00O OT9I
tion had had upon the Chinese themselves.
Since that time 1 have studied conditions
cies among these Chinese that fill my mind
with alarm for their own future welfare and
! in contact with them.
Conditions of Life.
Practically ali of the Chinese who come to
| California are from small region of one OF
| are farmers sons, unaccustomed to city life
They leave their wives in China, where they
| can support them for about S4 month, max
| ing visits home every four or five years
There are at present about B,OG0 OF these
| a spaca composed of a few blocks, separated
| from their wives with no home life and with
| out the restraining influence of women.
/ A condition Of immortality has resulted only
| paraIleed by that which called down in old
| Csnrnorrah and the same perversions of
morality exist in Chinatown to-day
Another evil calling for drastic measures IS
the importation Of women for immoral pur-
poses. There are at present in Chinatown
| hundreds Chinese
| and who upon their arrival were sold into the
! lowest form of human slavery Since their
| organization the Presbyterian and Methodist
rescue homes have, under great dlfncuILes,
rescued over nine hundred Chinese slaEe girls, I.
| What must have been the number VINO nave
| lived and died in bondageJ
Under the instructions OF the Attorney Cen
eraI the United States Attorney for the North
ern District of California, his associates, and
made every effort to cope with TINS evlI ana
have had the encouragement OF the san fran
| dered nugatory many of their efforts by reason
| of the fact that if through any fraudulent
means the owners OF these girls can estaoliSn
to-day cannot compel these owners to release
There are number of earnest Chinese
! Christians and others in San Francisco, whose
| morals are beyond question l love tnese .l- GhI-
nese Christian brethren as do the Chrlsuahs
of my own people and 1 do not, not feei ,,aIs oIs-
courased in the work OF the & Gospe a1sr19s a1lGng
| facts, 1 feel it my duty to call attention 10
| them.
Suggestions for Amendments.
Under the present law thousands of laborers
| return to this country every year after a visit
| to China I believe conditio1s such ana
! the danger to our own youth so great that not
| only should the present exclusion laws be re
! enacted but made 50 to exclude all alien
! Chinese Iaborers returning to this country ex1
| there should be strict provisions requiring the
| REGISTRATION Of such families and the deporta-
| tion of any who should for immoral purposes
abuse the privilege.
| would respectfully suggest TO you that
| some such restrictions the following would
| in nv opinion very largely tend to exclude all
| undesirable Chinese persons desiring to enter
this country and would also mitigate the evils
| above complained of:
| First-That all alien Chinese females in the
| United States be registered annually. That
| inforn1a ton as to the United States regarding
| slavery with directions to where to obtain
| relief if held in bondage, be printed on their
certificates in English and Chinese, and that
| s11ch information and directions be read and
| exclaimed to the holder of such certificate by
| the officer issuing it at the time of reg1stra-
| ton such certificate to be retained by the fe-
male TO whom it is issued. That information
| ard directions similar to that contained in the
certificate be conspicuously DOsted in every
apartment occupied by Chinese females.
-Second-That any alien Chinese person who
.t1o1G Re e11i1tv Of any crime against the mar
riaFe laws of the state or Territory in which
he shall reside shall be deported-
Third-That any alien Chinese person who
shall engage in any business or occupation
| contrary to the laws of the United States. or
of the State or Territory in which he shall
carry on such business or occupation, shall be
deported. =
shall be found present at any meeting OF any
society or corporation where any business IS
transacted contrary to the laws Of the United
States or of the State or Territory in which
such meeting is held, shall be deported Very
respectfully, y y JONE1S.