Salt Lake Tribune | 1900-07-23 | Page 1 | Boycotting Chinese

BOYCOTTING CHINESE I Laundries and Truck Farmers Hurt Laundre ad Farer r in and About Chicago Chicago July 2Thie Chinese population popu-lation of Chlcagols perturbed over the reports from the varIous Jart ot the city haL because of Caucasian antipathy an-tipathy aroused by the troubled Celestial Ce-lestial empire a boycott has been instituted against Chinese laundries and truck farms Vu Sung Lee a banker In Chinatown China-town aud probably the richest Mongolian Mon-golian In the city says four laundries I have been forced to suspend business Curing the past week and Chinese laundries generally report a falling off of 50 per cent In their Dusine3 Banker Wu said today The white people think that we are In sympathy with the Boxers and that they haye our moral support Nothing could be further fur-ther from the truth Every Chinaman In the city egrets the trouble and hopes that tho foreigners have not been murdered mur-dered Some of us have even authorized author-ized the Chinese Consuls at San Francisco to offer to the Chin e Government Gov-ernment our services and our property > to the Qnd that the foreigners especially especial-ly the Americans In China may be saved