Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-01
CHINESE SOLD As
VIRTUAL SLAVES
SmuggIers Land Coolies at lso-
lated Spots on Coast
of California
u. S. OFFICIALS HOODWINKED
Federal Authorities Find a Loop
hole Through Which Mon
gOIianS Gain Entry
U. S. OFFICIALS HOODWINKED


loophole through which hundreds of
contraband Chinese are being dumped
each month into Southern California
and sold into virtual slavery by Chi
nese companies in payment for their
passage from the Orient and illegal en-
try into this country.
According to the authorities, the Chi
nese have been landed at isolated spots
on the coast between San Diego anu
Santa Barbara by Americans operat-
ing swift power schooners from Ma
zatlan, Mexico, instead of being SNUG
gled across the border line between the
United States and Mexico.
With the knowledge that Chinese
were entering this country in great
numbers, the federal deputies have
been watching the border line closely
for many months, and they charge that
the smugglers have hoodwinked them
by deliberately sending patches of I'M
suspecting Chinese across the border
as bait for capture in order that the
government agents would not abandon
the theory that it was from across the
Mexican border line that the bllnd
trail stell led.
The suspicious of the authorities are
said to have been first aroused several
weeks ago when the immigration SER
vice in Los Angeles became active in
arresting Chinese in this city and other
parts of Southern California, despite
| the fact that the guard had been in
| creased along the border line, and il
was known the contrabands could not
| have been smuggled past them. In
vestigations were made and it was
| learned that the Chinese were coming
| from the coast.
Reports reached federal headquarters
that mysterious schooners had been
1 oIA 70 oh ri Of
San Pedro and at points south of Santa
Barbara. These reports were practic-
| ally confirmed, and dragnet has been
| spread secretly along the coast.
1t is stated that Chinese companies
with headquarters in Hongkong, China,
Ensenada, Mex, Los Angeles and San
| Francisco together with many of the
large eastern cities in America, pay to
Americans who operate half a dozen
swift schooners $3.50 for each Chinese
landed at designated points on the Cal
| ifornia coast.
SOLD LIKE SLAVES
These Chinese, who have been
brought from the Orient by the Chi
j nese companies, and who seldom have
| any money with them, make an agree
ment with the company to work for II
| for two or three years in America. me
| contrabands are generally of the coolle
| class in China and have not the slight
est knowledge of the English language.
| They are said to have been warned by
agents of the Chinese companies that
should they be discovered by the Amer
leans they will be beheaded. After the
arrival of the aliens in this country
they are literally buried in the China
towns of the coast cities for days ana
weeks at time, and taken singly, I'M
der guard, to various occupations,
where in ignorance they serve out their
time, amounting in some cases TO
years. The federal authorities state
that the system under which this
scheme is worked has parallel only IN
the white slave traffic.
The Chinese companies are backed
by unlimited means in the carrying
out of their plans, according to the
federal officers.
Deputy United States Maj shall Harry
]. Place of San Diego, who has been
instrumental in the capture of many
aliens smuggled across the Mexican
border line, brought eighteen Chinese
to Los Angeles last week. Under or
ders of deportation they were herded
together and taken to San Francisco
Yesterday, where they. will be dis
patched to the Orient on the next
steamer. The prisoners were taken
north in charge of Deputy United
States Marshals Durlin and ]. B. Men
delson.
SMUGGLING PROFITABLE
Place said yesterday that the Amer
leans implicated in the smuggling OF
the Chinese into this country cleared
as high as $4,000 each year and be-
came wealthy in the prosecution OF
their illegal business.
"The Chinese companies" he said,
"have become fabulously rich. con-
dition of slavery in the ChlnatoWns OF
many American cities and even on
some of the ranches worked by Chinese
has made them so. These aliens work
months and sometimes years in pay
ment for delivery into this country.
They are of the lowest class and are
kept in absolute ignorance There Is
no doubt in our minds but that the
blind trail has shifted from the
Mexican border line to the California
coast, We will nab them yet, although
hundreds of Chinese have got by us
each month. In fact, small percent
age of the, Chinese entering this coun-
try from Mexico are apprehended.
1.-THE smugglers have splendid sys@
tenn and organization, backed by plen-
tv of money. Fine brains are at the
head of this organization. II has taken
the government men some time to
solve this problem, but we have found
the loophole through which they have
eluded us. 1t is only question OF
time now until we will nave them
lodging"
1t is probable from the recent dis
covery made by the federal officers
that the aid of several government
revenue cutters will be enlisted in run
ming down the Americans who, the
authorities say, are known to be land
ing Chinese on the California coast.
There was much stir and activity i'll
fine offices of Chief immigration In
spector Ridgeway and United States
Marshall Youngworth yesterday, and
the government officials are said to
be in close communication with the
authorities at San Diego.
SEVERAL PAY FOR SPEEDING
weekend speeders appeared in Judge
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