Show TELEGRAPHIC THE CHINESE The Old Old Story Retold by a San Franciscan Chicago 24 Bergman representative of the SanFrancisco Trades Assembly at the labor congress recently held in Pitts burg arrived in the city yesterday and was interviewed regarding the state of affairs among the Chinese of San Francisco Fran-cisco Mr Bergman said Before a I Ohinaman leaves the port of Canton China he is compelled to sign a contract I to return 50 to Mr soandso with interest in-terest amounting to about S5G When the Chinese land here they are taken care of by the Chinese Six Companies and as soon as employment can be found for them they are put to work A Chi naman has to work about three years before be-fore he can pay his debts and furthermore further-more cannot return to his native country unless he gets a receipt that those debts are paid As everybody knows the Chinamans staple food is rice and he can live on ten cents a day while a white man cannot subsist for less than one dollar per day The Chinese in San Francisco are underworking the white man in every capacity The Chinese population is constantly changing for they are continually going and coming A man possessing 150 in China is considered wealthy It is estimated that they take out of this country coun-try over 10000000 per annum without with-out returning anything except their labor Among the 50000 Chinese in San Francisco are about 400 women who are devoted to prostitution only They entice en-tice their dens boys from 8 to 35 years of age where loathsome diseases are contracted con-tracted Nine tenths are thieves They have gambling and opium dens in i Chinatown China-town and thieving and murders are of frequent occurrence They are a constant con-stant draft upon tha city treasury for they avoid taxpaying whevever they can by passing their receipt from one to another an-other The assessed value of property owned by Chinese in California will ex 1500000 Mr Bergman then referred to the subject of Chiuese labor in San Francisco as compared with white labor and gave some very lengthy statistics statis-tics He thinks the result of the result of the meeting at Fit burg will be to I make better appreciated among tradesmen i trades-men the curse of Chinese to this country 1 |