New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-05-14
QUIET looking citizen enout

QUIET looking citizen enough Is
~ Dr. jim Fuzzy Moy, who appeared
"A with his American wife, his Amer'-
ran frock coat, his almost American daugh-
Ter and $4,000 worth OF American mace
famiIy Jewels before the federal Commas
sjoner In Jersey City the other day. WIN
his slick short hair. his smile and his pearl
stickpin. he did not look in the least IKE
q, agent NJ n great secret body whose
arms stretch mysteriously from the orieh'
both ways around the bulge of tho worio,
whose men rob. lie. bride and Kill 70 &c.
their human contrabrand undiscovered
across our border, whose sinking sia'eis
ooroo sraaking down with doused lights
from two oceans on our coasts. coipoi"
ton which here. in the United States OF
America holds hundreds OF men IN oohoase
often little lighter than that u '"o
ern negroes before the war.
Vet such are the companies which man
400 the trade in smuggled Chinese laoorers'
IA ~ e the crime of conspiring TO snug
Gle chinese laborers with which federal
rand ,ury had charged the harmless look
Inc DIR. Nov. The country has been shocKed
,ateIv bv the stories that have come from
the Pacific Coast Of Chinese left starving
on a
overheard 10 drown from schooner haru
messed by the government craft. Ihe.e
are such stories afoat wherever the cooie
trade has been discovered-too many 10 10
wholly without foundation, 1t seems. Ihey
are mostly rather vague, Ike the ie"
things that are known TO Westerners ABOUT
the system Of peonage under winch 'he
smueeled Chinese are held after they reach
this country.
7, n letter which was produced IN the
nroceedings concerning Or. Moy one OF
TIRE band says: Don't forget; the price
from Jamaica is $780, from Mexico, $780,
spot cash on delivery" The plan, IT is
said. was TO bring one hundred Cinnamon
f,om Jamaica and Mexican ports IN
little fishing schooner and run them into
the port OF Boston.
The cost Of passage from China to the
west coast Of Mexico is something ike
s-2o even at the lowest Storage rates, ana
90 reach Jamaica costs about $50 more
Adding the $3.50 or 500 for the periious
tourney In the schooner and the stu more
nerilous landing it costs about $500 TO bring
a Chinaman into the Eastern States Now
# any one of these men who risk then
yellow necks TO land here had had any
thing like $3.50 saved up at home IN Chlna'
he could have lived in luxury all the DAYS
Of his life, and all his children and grand
children with him. Then, why do these
roen want 10 come 10 America?
The answer is simple. Not one or the
in migrants had saved anything TO speak
of il China. The whole heavy charge for
each Of them is paid by a secret company,
organized partly in China and partly In
the United States, which counts on col
lecting the whole sum, with an ample
allowance |or accidents, deaths and bad
debts and generous profit besides, from
his earnings after he is safely landed. So
say the men Of the governments Chinese
immigration Bureau. Their explanation
may explain also DR.. Moy's frock coat. his
pearl pin, his 5000 in diamonds-and, 1t
may be, his American wife as well.
The organization Of these companies and
the exact form Of peOnage in which they
hold their victims are not thoroughly I'M