Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-02-20
THOUSANDS SOLD,
ASSERTS SLAVE
Linn Tsuie Tells How Chinese Girls
Are Forced Into Lives OF
Shame
By Fred V. Williams
Author of "Silver Flower"

! SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 20.-EVery
horror Of the slave trade in Chinese
girls, which has resulted in several in
dictments here, is epitomized in the
experiences of Lin Tsuie, a slave re-
Gently rescued.
Of the thousands of girls who have
been bought in China and brought TO
this country, Linn Tsuie is the first to
tell her story for publication. Fear
of the tong mans gun or dirk have
| sealed the lips of others.
Lin Tsuie's story was obtained for
| NEA Service by Fred V. Williams,
whose exposure Of the slave trade in
his new novel, "Silver Flower" now
being printed in the San Francisco
Daily News, has created furore on
the Pacific Coast.
The story of Lin Tsuie is the story
of rs per cent of the Chinese slave
girls in America.
Every liner that plough5 through
the Golden Gate from the orient
brings its quota. They land here as
merchants wives" and soon are swa!-
lowed in the Chinese underworlds.
San Francisco is the chief slave
market Girl slaves are literally sold
to the highest bidder. Their "mas-
ters" take them wherever they please.
In China their prices range from
$50 to 5000. Here they bring from
$4,000 to $4,000. AS a girl grows
older or loses her health her value
decreases. In the meantime she
must earn back her price-and
profit.
At the immigration station on An
gel Island there are today As Chinese
girls, Tomorrow boat will leave rs
many more Some of them are fated
for shame and suffering. Where are
they going? What will become of
them?
These questions are answered by
Lin Tspie.
81 was kidnapped from my home IN
the Kwong Tung province in China
by bandits. They sold me for S25 to
a woman in Canton who kept me as
servant until | was Is.
"Then | was sold for 800 to a
dealer in slave girls. | begged her
not to send ME into the resorts Of
Hongkong, to which shipments of
girls were made from her house each
week.
"This woman said she would find
me a rich husband from America.
was very happy. He came in the per-
son of Mr.. Lee from San Francisco.
Mr.. Lee paid 5000 and took me be-
fore the American consulate an Can
ton where we were married. My hus-
band was American born and carried
citizenship papers.
'I had no idea that anything hut
a happy home awaited me. My nus
band left me when the steamer DOCK
ed in San Francisco and said he would
call for me. I never saw him again.
~ learned afterward that he was
highbinder and that he had received
( $500 to marry me and bring me to
. this country.
Il was at the immigration station
two months when a white attorney
called for me with landing papers.
He said he would take me to my hus-
band.
''He took me to a closed cab to
Chinatown and left me in charge of
an old woman. When I asked for
my husband she laughed and said
| there was no husband
''The old woman brought me a
bundle of clothes and ordered me to
put them on. Then she told me my
doom.
I have paid altogether So 500 for
you, and I must get it back she
said. She promised l could buy my
| freedom by earning this amount.
Tonight" she added, you must en-
tertain my customersp
"That night l refused to work.
The old woman beat me terribly and
locked me up in dark room with
rats. BY morning l was so terrified
that l agreed to obey her in every
thing
my first owner sold me in six
months. My second owner told me
that he had paid $4,000 for me and
before I could go free / must earn
that amount.
Frequently l was told / would be
killed by the highbinders if / ran
away.
"My owners belonged to tongs.
These tongs employed gunmen. It