The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-07-22
AMERICAN GIRLS
SELL HONOR CHEAP
RESULT OF COMPARISON OF
COAST OF FRISCO is
SHOWN.
How immigration Laws are Mlsused
Related by Golfers Information
Furnished Committee.

Chicago, July 2O.-CMnese girls
bring from ten to hundred times as
much IN the white slave markets OF
the United States as the $4,000 daugh-
.ers OF American homes who were
sold last year, according to the best
estimates made by the federal and
state prosecutors for tine woman ;
world committee on legislation
against the monstrCus traffic. The
price usually put upon a victim on 4
Chicago or New York proourerS de-
viors deviltry last year was only from
$50 to $50, but prices are now advanc-
ing because of the increasing Difficult
ty and danger of the traffic because
OF laws secured by the committee ;
efforts in eight states OF the union.
The purchasers, who are usually
keepers OF disorderly houses, foresee
the end Of the traffic and the conse-
quent restriction OF their business.
The traffic in Chinese girls, SO long
deplored when the raids upon native
girfhood and womanhood were
either unknown or ignored, IS said 40
keep many highbinders on the Pacihc
coast IN silks and affluence Accord
ing to information supplied by Col
hers Weekly to the committee clros-
Ell and financed by the woman's world
10 fright the white slave traffic, the
forty. fifty or perhaps sixty dollars,
according 20 age, appearance and sta
tion IN life, for which the young Chi
nese girl or woman intended for
American shipment is purchased in
China, swells to selling price OF five
or ten times that amount when the
human commodity has been trans
ported across the Pacific and landed
safely in San francisco, 1t appears
that United States laws unconscious
IN contribute TO the ease and safety
CT the transportations from China
BY the supreme court dec:sion,' as
serts Golfers all Chinese born III
the United States are deemed natives
Pacific coast folk go further with
their appelatEon and sobriety these
American born Chinese Supreme
court nativ(s.
The wealthy Chinese fathers know
no peace OF heart till Their laughter:
'rs sent back to- grand parents in
ii "a But keen for prof. immediate
u r.Ior to hrs daughte::'s departure
lc lakes her before the immigration
nLlission and secures l lcea: GER
:icate of re-entry TO the United
;tates for his child. Confdent that
is own daughter Will thereafter stay
safely i'm the land OF their anc estor:
lie Chinese-American auctions off t'hC
GENTRY papers to the highest bidder
mong the higbbiddcrs and slave
| aders to work misery and woe upor
| ne daughter OF some less fortunate
| nan.
Certificates N hand, the procmer.
It sail for China and traverse it,
ivers, plains and mountain sides til
| hey find a double for the so-styleC
| l1Judicated native OF the UniteC
States. They promise her parents
\ hat she shall marry wealthy Chi
IeSe-Amerioan, they coach and drill
ne girl in English phrases and su
CRITICAL familiarity with San Francis
% and the ways OF IT'S Chinese The,
ven go so lar as to have the fathe
ii the original meet the dupe at tht
ime OF her entrance, examination
md inspection and put mp fine SHOW
l " parental affection. A few hour
subsequently she is prisoner in tn,
dives OF the Barbary coast, doome'
most cases to Fife OK blows an,
intimidation, under which many o
them pine away and die in a .hor
time
i The fate of the Chinese girls is n,
worse than that of the girls OF Amer
can homes VINO are captuerd in tn
net OF white slavery, for their fate i
ruined life, certain disease and ear
| " death. their average life bein,
found TO be but FIVE years