Arizona republican., 1909-07-22
AMERICAN GIRLS HONOR
 CHEAPER THAH CHINESE
TRICK OF THE CHINESE
 FATHERS.
How migration Laws Are Misused
 Related by Golfers.

Chicago. July 1S.-(Special corre- spOndence of The Republican)- Chinese girls bring from ten to hundred times as much in the white slave markets of the United States as
 the 65,000 daughters of American homes who were sold last year, oc-
 cording to the best estimates made by
 federal and state prosecutors for the
 Woman's Worlds committee on leg
 lslation against the monstrous traffic.
 The price usually put upon a victim
 of Chicago or New York procurer's
 devious deviltry last year was only
 from s30 to $50, but prices are now
 advancing because of the increasing
 difficulty and danger of the traffic
 because of laws secured by the com
 mittee's efforts in eight states of the
 Union. The purchasers, who are usu-
 ally keepers of disorderly houses,
 foresee the end of the traffic and the
 consequent restriction of their busi-
 ness.
 The traffic in Chinese girls, so long
 deplored when the raids upon native
 girhood and womanhood were either
 unknown or ignored, is said to keep
 many highbinders on the Pacific coast
 in silks and affluence. According to
 information supplied by Golfers
 Weekly to the committee chosen and
 financed by the Womans World to
 fight the white slave traffic the
 forty, fifty or perhaps even sixty dOlalrs, according to age. appearance and station in life, for which the young Chinese girl or woman in tended for American shipment is pur- chased in China, swells to a selling price of five or ten times that amount when the human commodity has been transported across the Pacific and safely landed in San Francisco. It appears that United States laws Un- consciously contribute to the case and safety of the importations from China.
 By supreme court decision, asserts Golfers. "all Chinese born in the Unit ed States are deemed natives" Pa cific coast folk go further with their 1 appellations and sobriquet these Amer can born Chinese Supreme court na- tives" The wealthy Chinese fathers | know no peace of heart till their | daughters are sent back to their grand | parents in China. But, keen for profits, | prior to the girls depart ure, he takes her before the immigra- tion commission and secures a legal | certificate of re-entry to the United | States for his child. Confident that | his own daughter will thereafter stay | safely in the land of their ancestors. | the Chinese American auctions off the | re-entry papers to the highest bidder among the highbinders and slave trad CTS tO work misery and woe upon the daughter of some less fortunate man. Certificates in hand, the procurers set sail for China, and traverse the rivers, plains and mountain sides till they find a double" for the so-styled "ad- indicated native" of the United States. They promise her parents that she shall marry a wealthy Chinese Ameri- can, they coach and drill the girl in English phases and a superficial fla with San Francisco and the ways of it's Chinese. They even go so far as to have the father of the original girl meet the dupe at the time of her examination, and inspection, and put up a fine show of paternaI | A few hours subsequently, she is prisoner in the dives of the 'Barbary coast" doomed in most cases to q life of blows and intimidation. under which many of them pine away and die in q short time.
 The fate of the Chinese girls is no worse than that of the girls. of Ameri- can homes who are captured in the net of white slavery, for their fate is n ruined life, certain disease and early | death, their average life being found | to be but five years.