The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 13, 1900, Page 1

SAN FRANCISCO, FRIDAY; APRIL 13, 1900. MAKING CHINESE CITIZENS BY WHOLESALE. e L B l Collector Jackson Lands More Than Ten Thousand Mongols in Thirty-Four Months. | — . Startling Operations of a Gigantic Ring Organized in This City to Deal in the Importation of Coolies. operation L] + 4 + . 4 R e . S e S L S S 9000 @eieieie .+<>—0—4~*0+9—0—0+0+MM B e o e e e . CoL. GEORGE H PIPPY cr- Colonel ank V. Bell China this ng ative Imrn cstizens of States” behind her, and Doric has just arrived more to be landed place as citizens. - CRIME lh THE NAME OF THE EXCLUSION mer has g1 port 1mer res A AS A s S S e e s A A E e AR A S e St e S e o SR S IR S S o S S S R SR SN SR SRS SRS ST S S A N S O +000900409000000049 IMVORTERS OF ACT kson have been vio- ” t of 1884 is in- er admission of all through which has been land- San Fran each of itself The first of in which there fraud, contains is rers, who cpme here hinery 5 rst time. This section the pie t through its w hordes of | s who werp yesl- | There a regularly try and having departed | establishe 3. organized under the terms of | i this « ex n a fes, to Teturn. | g amissi this demand al- | tion 6 of the act an honest right to | ” tained in the Orie with evidence of their | tne trade in make y have A traffic is muin- The prices of the Federal laws are e and with the.testl- | ;hatters of common gossip among lawy : witnesses who cannot be | {n this eity. The tremendous traud Is | ( rigid in regard | yorqly dtsguised. U authority of s y enough &sks |y, § of the act of 1884, Chinese e once been iIn the | (pants, students and touris k to return more 1 is exacted from | not profess ever | never been in the 1 ted § may be landed upon which establishes thelr « s before, | of a cer- < - et | tificate aracter untry bln 3"“"5 and which is not only issued by ithe Gov- b aga. ; “‘é . . ):”N’““ ernment of the c in which appli- A e r’.‘f‘ . ¢ | cants reside, but which must also be | - he first class of | ;.03 by the American Consul at the port/| a comparatively | B5CC N e e startling revela- ( istration of Collector | ile the act of 1884 provides Wi an hat any | of Jackson. The testimony of | Government issue to | n Chinese must be obtained | Chinese mer stude; ourists | erchants at this port,| who wish to enter this country, the vital | an inspection of the | section of thé law res that the docu- t the number landed is 0 that an inves- the interesting fact that ush transla e s are the last of the | but that the tificate itself must be in three ciasses to be landed, as they have | English. In this respect there have been | | AN ARMY OF wholesale violations of the law. Certifi- cate after certificate in Chinese and in Portuguese - with English translations have been accepted. The widest oppor- tunity forsfraud has been given and ac- cepted. When it is found that the Chinese and English versions of the certificates do not agree in vital points the fault has been placed to the discredit of the English version-and another Chinese has been GEORGE. A.. MESGOWAN.. I : [ e e e e e ] CHINESE AND e b+ P-edebede@® B landed. The demand that English and not any other language be used was placed in the law for a specific, and it was believed, sufficient protection agalnst fraud. Lach | D e e S o S S B o o e IR Y @+ 040400040009 0000-99+0 R g e S e o SOME OF THElR‘ certificate is supposed to show that the LUM Yow, ONE OF FIPPY’s CoOLIE VOTERS, PLEADING LT RIG«HT T0 CIT)ZENSH)F 04-0—04—00-0—0-0—0 | before in ‘the history An Army of Native Sons and Voters Sen t Into China- town by Fraud of the Grossest Kind. George H. Pipp and George A. y, Frank V. Bell McGowan, Aided by Powerful Friends, Cheat the Exclusion Act. his place of residence and the official an- | poor and . nouncement of his right to come to this | Vits inder the conditions prescribed icant be a merchant th tificate must also state the estimated value of his busine vitally import uments , but they mu ised by ericai Consul at t of de- parture. It is gigantic avd at in th m icates begir The the point of departute the law of 1884 to make a t tigation of the pretensions of appli- cant before indorsing the ce How this investigation was done ustrat- ed in the loe, th was $100 for sty The Consul's legal fee Is one The illegal ser which was Qe dessiestrdeoeseag + ? . * t - b4 . * b * L 4 * kS ® . L 2 ! ® N 4 * + 1 ° 'LOCAL FRIENDS| dered raised the tariff to $100, the price which the Consul received and for recelv- ing which he was deposed. It is just such an outrageous traffic which is now being malntained through a gigantic conspiracy at Hongkong. | Coolie laborers are salling from there to this country and are being landed. The exclusion law is being cheated and vio- lated, and to a degree greater than ever of Chinese legisla- Under the remarkable Chinese ad- tion. | ministration of Collector Jackson another | | ! palpable violation of the act of 1584 is be- ing. not only-tolerated but encouraged. The act states specifically that the evi- dence which shall entitle a merchant, stu- | dent or tourist to a landing shall be his certificate in the English. Not only must it be this but it shall be nothing else. The ‘commg Mongol must rest entirely upon | | Chinese asking admission at this or any | other American port as a merchant, stud- ent or tourist has the permission of the Government in whose country he resides to depart for the United States. In this particular alone the certificate is a badge of character. These certificates must show also the signature of the applicant, his individual, family and tribal name, his official rank or title, his age, height and physical char- acterlstics, his formeéer and present occu- pations, when and how he pursued them. | serious thes: his certificate and shall not have the right to introduce evidence of any other sort. He may be attacked in any legal way by the Government, but he can do nothing except show his-certificate and rest upon it for admission. Notwithstanding this specific character of the provision of the law Collector Jackson has permitted in- coming “‘merchants, students and tourists" toisupport their claims and their certifi- cates with affidavits which clearly have no place in the investigations. To pile one fllegality upon another and to reduce the entire matter to a farce if it were not affidavits in many instances have been rettirned to the men who made them, thus leaving the criginal certificates, inadequate in themselves to warrant the landing of Chinese and now without the $ lllegal corroboration of afda- |HOW THOUSANDS OF COOLIE CITIZENS ARE MADE. |t Oriental slaves s lect jargo: tive-born power of the privileges « | The trem can hardi | San Francisco politicany, | cammerctally can hardly be | Thousands of citizens have | and every on m is a sl | onistic to tvilizatior . of Western manners and ideals and con- temptuous of Western instf . sands of cooife laborers would have been a nance and the poor sion, must now be t zens of equal pow | equal dignity with uation is one that nat | Under the law t who come b are native strictive open to of any exclusion 1s extreme readmissic have bee re ably mlmum for | merchan solutely ‘a(I‘RV|<"~ ar d the ad sior f Chi- nese w 2 1 ha s | of the 1 E < and voters. When Ho Yow, the Ch eral, made a plea f | struction of the exc had become more than safely was thinking of the K game, of which more sha plaining the remarkable fairs of the adminis the Port John P. Jackson of the Un: h itizens be nat omn the States may come here w S papers of any sort. T mere assertl that America en eve protection and privilege of consid enjoyed by Americans. They constitute the mos | class of coolies which is as | city through the Golden Gate. | says that all that shall be nece | thetr admission to this countr nese, who shall certify to the of the incoming “native son.” Collectors of the Port who occupied office before Col- lector Jackson recognized, however lax they may have been, how serious and | how grave a problem was presented by (hase Mongolian slave “native sons.” Pre- cauuuns were taken therefore against their admission. They were forced to fight ‘lhflr way into the country through | courts, where testimony is taken in a leg: | manner, where the proceedings are reg | lar and where the chances of detect | fraud are reasonably certain. The res | has been most startli to give even casual attention that affect the welfare of San | It 1s a fact of appalling signific Collector of the Port John P admitted to this city more t than all of his predecessors combinec has made more Mongolian citizens of Francisco than all of those who prece him in office. He has clothed thousands of slaves with the privileges and dignities of citizenship. That there is some reason for this remarkable conditi affairs no one can doubt for a moment at the reason brings shame upon a system and an administration of immigration and treaty obligations is palpable. The facts to which accompany the admis of “r tive sons.” the association ring ¢ favored attorneys and their business re tionshigs are as startling as the admission of “native son” Mongolians itself When these coolle citizens come on a ship to this port they come, as a rule armed with documents which state that they have been residents and that on a certain date they departed from this city. The age of the “citizens,” their place of birth and the names of their two Chinese witnesses are sometimes also gi but, as already given, they are unnecessary’ under the law. The “citizen” has but to announce himself, remember the lesson which was so well learned in China and trust to the good-will of the Collector of the Port. The law opens the way and the