River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-01-12

worked for all it was worth.
Quite evidently, too, information
of the ease with which Cinnamon
dressed as women could 10y ride"
across a border was flashed all along
the underground smuggling system
which exists in America. For the
practise was soon developed along
the Canadian border.
At a labor convention at Fort Will
liams, Ont, a few days ago, it was
asserted that thousands of China
men are being annually struggled
across the international dividing line,
and the statement was made that the
10y riding" method had been one of
the most successful of recent
schemes.
American women tourists motor
ing across either of the lines now
need not be surprised, therefore, if
the immigration authorities or border
police call upon them at any stage
to get out of their machines, take off
their wells and goggles and prove
that they really are American WON,
en-. The situation has become far
too grave for the authorities to take
any chances.
Those who have seen Cinnamon
dressed for an international 10y
ride" say it is entirely impossible to
distinguish them from a party of
women, so cleverly are they dis
guised. False hair covering their
queues, which are carefully rolled up
on their heads, goggles and wells over
their faces, long coats and even
| dresses are used.
1t is related that in one instance
on the Canadian border group of
''joy riders" passed the boundary
even after they had been compelled
to get out of their machines and stand
around while the vehicle and their
baggage was being examined for con-
traband articles. Nor is it impossible
that parties thus disguised have
! crossed the Rio Grande bridges under
the very eyes of the inspectors.
Incoming tourists are not searched"
Their baggage is examined, but even
that is usually done in rather cursory
manner.
Previous to the exposure of the
"joy riding" method of smuggling
in Cinnamon it would have required
considerable nerve" for an inspec.
tor to demand that a party of WON
en-, waiting in an automobile while
their chauffeur submitted their bag.
gage for examination, step out of the
machine, remove their wells and
goggles and prove to the inspector
that they really were women!
1t has long been known to the i'm.
migration authorities that an or.
ganized band of rich Cinnamon are
continually engaged in bringing their
countrymen to the United States. II
is a most profitable business. Ameri-
cans are employed to do the actual
work Of getting the Cinnamon across
the border, but they are supplied by
the Chinese ''tongs," and are taken
rich Cinnamon back of the conspir
acy pay the American smuggler and
collect from the incoming Chinaman.
From $500 up is paid for each
Chinaman brought in. An automobile
load of from three to six therefore
nets a good sum to the American
willing to pilot them across. The
Chinese hackers of the expedition al
ways pay, but they are so thoroughly
entrenched and guard their opera
lions so successfully that they are
never caught
Smuggling, or the defeat of gov
! eminent tax of any ordinary sort, is
not regarded by the average China
man as being wrong. He may be
scrupulously honest about everything
! else, and yet will be a leader in
smuggling operations. incidentally,
American people are not so far
ahead of the Chinese when it comes
to beating the customs" as has been
recently shown in New York.
New methods of smuggling are be-
ing devised constantly along the
Mexican border. AS fast as one is
broken up another is Instituted. The
"ioy ride" now being exposed it is
the firm expectation of immigration
authorities that the entrance of the
| flying machine into the smuggling
| service may be looked for any day