The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1914-06-18
WESTERN RUSSIA is
ATTRACTING CHINESE
Hordes Of Them Pouring Across
Border and Yellow Peril
Is Real.


Hastily. as a matter OF urgent, sani-
tary necessity, Moscow has presented
TO It's Chinese population a burial
The information has aroused discus
sion OF phenomenon that threatens
grave trouble TO the social conditions
OF the humber masses In Russia. From
ell points OF the compass, up to St
Petersburg, KieR and the western
cities, come narratives OF a migratory
fow OF Chinese men Comparatively
few women) who are mostly beggars;
some selling paper toys or Offering to
do juggling tricks; the most prosper
GUS calling at the back staircases from
house to house, Offering to sell piece
goods OF Chinese silk
Evidently Moscow is to have the
anxiety OF harboring the biggest
Chinatown, in Russia. It Is the Euro
pean terminus OF the trans Siberian
railroad. and Russian students OF the
Chinese question ascribe the present
formidable influx TO the knowledge
which is now widespread among
Cinnamon OF the details and comfort
Of the overland voyage westst to Europe.
Until within few years there were
astonishingly few distinctly Asiatics OF
the Chinese type to be, seen in Euro
pean Russia. During all the centuries
OF land neighborship the wandering
Chinaman was discouraged from tour
blackness o. the read, by the stagnant
life Of rursI Russia and by the rigid
city administration which offered no
accommodation to foreign colonies. The
war In Manchurfa, the political dis
turbance In Russia and I'm China, and :
the building OF the Amur railroad. the
great new, north arm OF the trans
Siberian running out. to the Pacific,
have one after the other given China
men a familiarity with Russians and ,
Russia; and now, unlimited, the locust
swarm is overspreading the empire OF
the czar. $3.50,
Although all this immigration is
flowing over the track OF ethe trans
Siberian, It is nearly a physical impos-
sibility to check IT, There is no par
ticular gateway that can be stopped,
and the wanderers can drop off the
train before II comes to any big ter
minus and walk the rest Of the jour
ney.
They do not use any mail expresses;
but they have got exactly the rolling
stock they require In the returning
plough trains that have taken the
Siberian grain lands. The Chinese
manage to start with q little money or
do a bit OF work on the line and are
given tickets.
The governor general of the Amur
territory, Gondatti, who Is now Rus
California attitude toward the yellow
peoples. He employs none OF them on
the Amur railroad and even excludes
them from the markets and townships
OF the railroad building population. In
this he had to fight both Kokovtsoff,
the late finance minister and premier,
and Sazonoft. the cars foreign min
lister. The former wishes to employ
Cinnamon for the sake OF cheapness,
and Sazonoff sought to. avoid treaty
trouble with Japan and China. But
curious spectacle OF the Chinese being
barred out OF Russia's Far east beyond
Irkutsk, and OF their turning west In
thousands into European Russia
It Is characteristic that the Russian
department. or the interior has nothing
against them; IL they were Firms or
cal intelligence they would soon be
harried into such discomfort as would
mako them sorry that they had made
| the experiment. But they are potential
yellow labor. although so far they APP
pear to be only loafers, Their presence
Is used to recaSl the experiment of Chi
nese labor in the Transvaal gold mines.
The capitalists OF some great enter
prises In Russia who. have trouble with
their work people speak OF them as a
cheap reserve. They are thus destined
to be very unpopular but as there Is
pubic VI pObbAblAlIy VI ON0lk
manifestation sof sentiment I'm Russia
they come along by the train load with.
out any government or political oppo-
sition.
It was found necessary to give them
burial ground in Moscow only when
several cases had been published OF
dead Cinnamon wrapped In cloth be-
ing found In the waste land around the
city. They proved to have died natural
deaths, and 1t was the only burial their
friends could give them.
There Is always q considerable cpl
demic OF smallpox In Russia. and the
Chinese are blamed for bringing more
Of II. IL they have dangerous infec-
| ton IL Is certain that they are spread
| ing It, for in any evening tour Of the
cheap tea houses OF the Moscow quar-
| ter near the Siberian station will show
that there is not one but has some Chi
namen in Il.
1t IL out OF the question to refuse
them admission. and the Russian
| shows no open animosity to people who
keep quiet. With the quickened circu-
lation Of money that has followed the
/ state-aided purchase OF the peasant
communes for freehold farmers there
is.spring1ng up a living for a population
| Of peddlers. and there IL no visible
means OF keeping the Cinnamon out
| Of 1t IL the government takes no action,
Russia Is Tow for the first time at
| close grips with the yellow problem in
| its full shape. with the added handicap
| that the two countries have some thou
sands OF miles,pf continuous land from