Show SAYS YOUNG AMERICANS BRING BACK BACKMOST BACKMOST BACKMOST MOST DEGRADING VICES FROM CHINA That the American people have absolutely i no ni n conception of the appalling vices and sin which are tolerated in the tile Chinese cities and that young Americans are transplanting tr Chinese debauchery debaucher In hi our cities was the surprising declaration made bj by ET E T Colton In i a lecture in the Y M 31 C A building yesterday after afternoon afternoon afternoon noon Mr Colton who is a New Yorker is secretary of the foreign department of the International committee of oC the Y M 1 C A He has spent many man years ears In Y V M 11 C A missionary work In Asia and is isnow isnow isnow now touring tourin this country countr and lecturing on the efforts of oC the Y V M 1 C A to head off the Chinese immorality It is actually appalling Mr Colton said when you jou ou realize the vice of ot the Chinese cities We Ve abhor the red light districts In our American cities and are trying to stamp them out Why Vh they are areas ares areas as s nothing to the segregated districts of oC crime vice I nd sin in Chinese cities They hav have e gone so far as to stop team and business traffic in those districts in Chinese Ci inese cities after 4 I In the after afternoon afternoon afternoon noon so that the thousands may flock there and have full sway Whereas we have our comparatively small number of oC underworld unde inhabitants they the have hae their thousands upon thousands in each city elt there Young Y ung Americans America ns ambitious ambitiOns and fired I with the desire desIr for advancement in com corn commercial commercial mercial and find diplomatic circles are going to China in increasing Iner number each year jear ea Now I have found Cound from excellent author It ity and after investigation that less than 5 per cent of or those young Americans re tain tam their American manly and moral qualities They The y fall faIl into the alluring life there and return to this country countr to bring back the tile vices Ices We exclude the Chinese by b our gration laws because we think that we thereby shut out an apparently inferior people We Ve do not shut out o t your our young oung Americans from returning They come como In Inand inand inand and each one of them who has been con contaminated contaminated contaminated does more harm to our mor morals morals als than any an one Chinese man could do doThe doThe doThe The people pe from each nationality American English German etc have their own foreign quarters in the tile big Chinese cities and they are practically governed by b the laws of oC their native land landI I have found that they have haves vices which even the thc Chinese do not permit The Chi Chinese Chinese Chinese nese governments government is making a noble effort to stamp out tile the opium habit and the only place pla e where opium can be easily casU se secured secured secured cured Is in those foreign quarters That Thai Thatis is so because the Chinese government does not dare Interfere too strongly with the foreign and Christian quarters quarters quarters for fear car of oC the wrath of the world powers The Tile Y V M ll C A now has expert secretaries who are engaged in es establishing establishing our associations in the Chi CM Chinese Chinese nese cities They The are doing doin noble work in not only reforming the Chinese but the foreigners the Christians They The are heroes every everyone one of oC them They are struggling to make the foreigners pre preserve preserve serve sene their morals Our work has won wor worthe the unstinted stinted un sanction and praise of oC all the leading men of oC the Chinese empire and they the are helping us in ill every ever possible way We e are going to have men there therein in a few years ears and our Influence for up righteousness will have a tremendous ef effect feet Mr II spent several years in Asia and is well ell acquainted with conditions there He was scheduled to speak at 4 p m In the Salt Lake theatre but the bad weather kept many man at home and his lecture was transferred d to the Y V M 1 C CA CA CA A building |