The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-07-31

Are Sowing the Seeds Of Vice in
Every City and Town in the
United States. y y 81 i:
So-called. Chinese Christians
Are Hypocrites and Their
Presence Communicating.

The following article is a contribu.
ton to the Labor World from the pen
Of A. E. Yoell, Of San Francisco, and
speaks for itself: - :
Chinese and Mission Workers.
'"rhe shocking murder of Miss Elsie
Sigel by a hinaman seems to recall
the statements made from time to
time relative to the immortality Of the
Chinese. On Saturday, February Is,
1902. before subcommittee Of the
United States Senate hearing testi-
mcny upon Chinese exclusion, Mrs.
Charlotte Smith, representing the
Wurnan,s international Industrial
League Of America, being given the
privilege Of addressing the committee,
said in part:
:, Menace to Women.
I'm my work among fallen women I
have had frequent occasion to see the
shocking results of the immortality Of
the Cinnamon who come to this coun-
try. The Chinese are like sponge;
they absor band give nonthing in re-
turn but bad odors and worse morals.
They are a standing menace to- the
women Of this country. Their very
presence is Communicating. They have
sown the seed of vice in every city,
town and hamlet in the United States.
In my Investigations as president Of
the Woman's Rescue League, which
is branch of the Woman's National
Industrial League, I found IT'S women
who had been baptized in the Chris
tian faith living with Cinnamon in
New York in 1892. These women
bring young pagans into the world
and with their so-called husbands
worship in joss houses and become
disciples of onfucius, as we'll as opium
f1ends. Out of every 100 Chinese 80
are gamblers and this undesirable
class come into direct competition
with women. who are bread winners.
The beastly and immoral lives that
known in police courts of our large
cities, where patrol wagons filled with
Chinese gamblers and Sunday school
scholars every Monday morning, goes
to prove as an object lesson that they
can never be Christianized.
What Records Show.
During the year 1889, in Washing
ton, D. c., 564 Chinese were arrested,
the majority Of whom were members
of the Metropolitan church Sunday
school. Men and women, pipes and
Cpium-joint paraphernalia were
brought into the police court. The
very worst Of gamblers and most i'm
moral opiun1-jo1nt keepers were So
called Sunday, school. pupils. I was
. interested in having these Chinese
!; Christians raided bscause Of their
communicating young children, and the
result" was published in the newspa-
pers at that time.
In Boston, June %, 1894, $4,000 un-
fortunate girls were turned loose to
forage upon the community because of
moral crusade inaugurated against
vice. What was the result? American
born, educated girls became the mis-
tresses of the Chinese of Boston. The
;Tenderloin floating population was
soon after transferred to Chinatown
and the Chinese were permitted to go
!: into the business of keeping houses of
i'll repute and engaged extensively in
this illicit traffic.
Mrs. Smith then went on to say
, that if some decided steps were not
taken by the government to exclude
| and keep out this undesirable class it
would not be long until legislators
would be asking that there be leper
hospitals established in every town
ship in this country