The San Francisco call., 1910-12-12

that the immigration authorities will
Invade the dens and grab the slave
girls held in bondage and degradation.
As consequence OF the discovery
OF the slave trafic in this city last
week the siavers have reason to believe
that the immigration officials will push
their work into Chinatown or that
some member Of the ring may confess
20 the rsmiications Of the awful trade
in women which has been going. on
for wears between the Chinese ports
and san Francisco.
To prevent a wholesale deportation
- the more valuable slave girls the
owners have decided to ship their
chattels out OF the city to Sacramento.
stockton, Wstsonville. Bakersfield and
other interior places where there are
extensive Chinese quarters. and there
let them stay until the excitement
blows over.
ATTORNEY TO GUARD "RIGHTsv
Kwan Kung tong looks well TO its
rights" and has retained an attorney
at fee Of 500 a month. II does not
wish any exposure OF its workings to
destroy the trade entirely. but will
axe steps TO protect itself.
Like most competitive businesses of
tae day, the yellow slave owners have
organized for mutual protection against
eEacting, though rather spasmodic.
tendencies Of the immigration authori-
ries- A consignment valued at s25, geo
has become just so much flotsam to
The trade" and the Chinese inter
ests" can not stand the loss Of any
more valuable women.
GIRLS TO BE DEPORTED
Twenty five thousand dollars worth
of chattering, giggling girlhood played
about the immigration station building
on Angel island yesterday with their
they we're about TO be returned to
China. This $4,000 worth Of body and
soul-chiefiy body, for soul does not
count for much in the slave markets
Of the worlds a complete loss to
some one, for LLoyds has not yet issued
insurance on the safe delivery of a
caro- OF slave girls for the San Fran
cisco market.
The white and Chinese partnership
, in san Francisco which expected the
arrival Of seven OF the girls on the
Pacific Mail liner Manchuria and of
this shipment Of human chattels. The
vigilance OF a federal guard on the
Nail dock last Sunday night did more
Ian all the force Of the thirteenth
v meadment to the constitution Of the
United States to stop slavery in seven
INSTANCES.
LINERS REPLACE SLAVERS
african slavery and the African slave
trade have long since passed away. The
In the United States long before the
civil war. which had as its consequence
the termination of negro slavery in
America.
Tie foul. teeming slavers that
scudded fuftively along the African
coast and grabbed q pitiful cargo of
savages out Of the Jungle, naked and
rs brutes. to bring to the land of the
free. America. for southern "consump
1ion." have passed from the seas to
unhsllowed rest. IN their places now
ply stately liners. Of much fresh paint
and cleaning brass. with polite officers
En- natty uniforms and remunerative
passengers on the promenade deck. who
pay large sums for the privilege of
crossing the Pacific in a-slave ship.
PROFITS IN JEOPARDY
with the port of san Francisco closed
10 the human cargOes. kwan Kung tong
LEIAlLEE thai us DEUilLs are III JNDpcLO
The seven girls caught as they were
being landed from the Manchuria and
the one found concealed in the linen
closet Of the Chiyo Maru will be held
st Angel island pending deportation
Assistant immigration Commissioner
Harry Edsell has taken the statement
Of each of the girls, and while they
have shown for the most part an orien-
tsl cunning IN answering the questions,
enough has been elected to involve
Chinese Of Hongkong. with whom it is
Rexpected the British government will
The names OF the seven girls who
came over on the Msnchuria are 10
An Ying. Chan All Ho, Nah Lin, Yin
An 10. Ng Suai Ho. Wong Lin and
chan All Chun. The girl who came
over on the Chiyo Maru is Wong All
Choy Their ages are from Is TO 20.
VARIETY OF VICTIMS
IN looks they range from slim to the
stout. from the bright and pretty TO
the ugly and stupid In temperament
they vary from the pouter 10 the gig
eler In morality they include the
girl who have willingly committed
themselves to the gaudy life Of evil
and the girl who had TO be drugged to
be taken on the Manchuria.
one Of the girls went on the ship of
her own volition. one was sold to the
slavers by her father, hVe or the seven
are orphans and were either kidnapped
or sold into slavery by their relatives.
Commissioner Edsell viii not tell all
be knows OF the slavery plot The
statements Of the girls are still mat
ter Of private official Information. The
s-i~ls are said to have clung to the
stow that during the voyage they
r-ere confined in a room il feet square
and that each day a small ration OF
6rfed fruit and cold tea was slipped
INTO them. However, the girls show
little bad effects Of such congested
quarters.
MONEY PAID RELATIVES
In their examination the girls re-
fuse6 TO admit that they were being
brought to America for the slave traf-
fc hut one reluctantly acknowledged
tba+ - had been sold into slavery.
} a man bought me 70 bring me to
America, she said. He got me at a
relatives house and paid my relative
who was it sold you?" she was
asked.
.-ATzo-be my relative, maybe my faith
er" she replied. MY father was poor
s1sa <4lev told me that there was
- f,,+,,re in store for me in the