New-York tribune., 1908-06-14
CHINESE SLAVES.
Struggled Mongolians in This Country frac'
tically Sold Into Bondage.

Chinese traffic. as conducted by modern snug, mug
gers is just like the slave trade OF 1n
office who several years Gnder I'm 66iel
spector Tippett followed Era the pIss 5ra ' 1T is made
~ nav inst cxs city in the same way the negro
tran? in Go5DsS 5hg s9un Mr. vas Rose made 10 pay "
.sTbe Donr Chinese who come this country at
geat be sSes for 10 seTerl Years What who
understands the business woulGa G, ee bond Slave
put up say $1,000 in order to have o9r nr
Working for him, for perhaps hVe years loi Ho'i
En- 9U oreY to understand just how it is done one
must know all about the conditions undeT VIII IN
their MYSTERIOUS Organization and their social in
stinct, and the national tie whlch pinus Iie i6 ~
like to do away with them, and which mas paSseo
exclusion laws to that end -. .. .ror ,-d
arrest the ;lel. VINO bringing the Chinese over
the border. thry are not the ones at the bottom OF
the system. The oEes who are actually at the
cfants IN ChicaEo ana elsewhere They are the
ones who usually finance the enterprise. but TO con-
meet them with the smuggling IN criminal way
Chinese merchants are ct all secretive in their
capture. They, come into open court and put up
are delivered back to the court
several laundries and restaurants. and who is in
terested in various other enterprises in Chicago
Chinese we recently brought over the border. He
was in Commissioner Harris's office in Port Huron.
when the three were arraiGned, and he supplied
$1,000 cash bail for the three men, taking them to
Il asked Hong Sling if he afraid the
three men would run away, and he be the loser.
They They won't run away replied Sling. They
e,,. = But suppose they did run away% I asked
Sling:
I'D get them again he said.
a, nat pam would happen II they did try to keep
drew his finger across his throat Smiled meaningi9
and made a gurgling sound
Fer PeThaps sling didn't mean just that But he
gled Chinese can't evade their bondmasters Sup
PP0slng tnose three Cinnamon did run away. and
have to pay him in labor for years to come
t Even tb Il they don't run away. and stay to con-
close to $1,000 each before they get free If tbey
90 escape the courts. 1t costs about $500 to have
attorneys and expenses 1t is Just a matter of in
VeStng Sl,G1 i'll slave OF course YOU might sa Y
that Chinaman will work in gratitude for tbe
The man wants to get into the country and he
makes a hard bargain: He knows he can't es-
nese organizatio in this country would follow
help each other in getting hack escapeG naer6es
He IS traced out. He has to abide bv custom we
couldn't follow Chinaman that way. but the
.hlneSe can Ihey have way of keeping track of
their countrymen They seldom fail
sixty cbns @ we and 6a'e in n,t this district
smuggling charges OF those Chfnamen thirty
TWO TWO were deported but the other twenty-eight re
time in prison. There is a system behind it all
We must admit that scores of Chinese are brought
over tEe borders without detection and that ma es
the business paw. But when a Chinaman is
caught. the man behind IT all considers it mat
1T is nothing in the world but a slave trade
But it IS conducted in such way that the law
that man is caught and then coming over
the border. The real backbone of the system is in
In the cases of these last three Chinese the
bail was increased from $500 to 5000 Just to make
certain that the captured men will not escape
y has been the custom in the past to fix bail at