The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1905-04-11
THE GUILELEss HEATHER

Ching Flam and Quin Loo should by
| no means be sent back to China. The
| missionary societies which have spent
! considerable sums of money in setting
the, heather of foreign parts on the
right road should see to it that Ching
and Quin stay here where the develop
ment of the native has fitted him to
cope with sharpers. If Ching and Quin
get back to Canton they will give their
former friends and fellow countrymen
such a trimming that no chink will
ever again believe that anything good
| can come out of America.
Ching Flam-perhaps his first name
Is Flim-and Quin Loo, whose cogno-
men gives color to the story that the
Irish first settled in China, have been
| doing job of washing in this country
Holding certificates under the Geary
law they were entitled to do any sort
| Of job from washing shirts to washing
stocks. That they preferred to do the
| AOA AiCi - d liidilCI LUZ
else might there have been another
chapter added to the story of the skin
ming of the public by high financial
methods. And as Ching and Quin bent
over the ironing board or the wash
tub, or sought surcease of sorrow at
the consolatory, pipe they dreamed of
Canton and of the days of their youth
when they had nothing to do but carry
the loads of packmules for four cents
a week. BY dint of industry they saved
enough money to live on for the rest
of their lives in Canton but 1t would
cost as much to pay their fare back
as would keep them in the condition Of
mandarins of the red button for eight
years. They were in despair and
smoked many pipes trying to find a
cloudy way out of their difficulty.
One or both of them hit on a plan.
They had been warned that they must
keep their certificates of Identification
or they would not be permitted to re-
main in this country. Arguing with
the guileless logic of Confucius they
| reversed the proposition. If they lost
the certificates they would be sent
| back to China. They lost the certifi-
Gates and the other day presented
themselves as culprits living in the
United States in spite of the law.
Conscience stricken they told the
| United States commissioner that they
could no longer live in violation of the
laws of country whose people they
| had come to know and esteem. They
were willing to undergo any punish
| ment the honorable commissioner
| might inflict, even to being expelled
| from this distinguished country and
sent back to Climatic name of which
was not to be mentioned in the same
breath with that of this gracious and
| beauteous land. And they came very
near to getting the transportation. The
honorable commissioner being, how
ever, used to the ways of the guile
less Chinese, took pause before order
ing their deportation. He found that
| Ching and Quin had held certificates.
He also found that they did not have
them now. Wherefore he is in guam
dairy. for Ching and Quin must not be
| permitted to remain here in spite of
the law, nor can they be deported-for
the commissioner is not the man to be
| party to a bunko game.
If our judicial system was ordered
on the simple and effective plan of that
of their native land it would be easy
enough to dispose of Ching and Quin-
| they could be taken out and beheaded
and the merits of their case inquired
into afterwards. As 1t is we do not
see what is to be done with them
unless they be turned loose and put