Show MORE CHINESE TRICKERY There has been much outcry In Ma mmlia against the proposed opium control a 1 monopoly but it turns out that this is incited chiefly and paid for wholly by Ihe Chlnese opiumdealers who want to conduct the tiafllc In the old loose and Irresponsible way The junta paid for I the telegraphic protests sent to Washington Wash-ington and paid for getting up the signatures sig-natures It Is found too that the signatures sig-natures to these protests are chiefly fraudlent Thus the Manila Times says the twenty thousand Chinese who were claimed to be represented on the petition peti-tion represented in fact a total of 2001 in Chinese characters and CSO in script or a total of 2771 name The first petition pe-tition was sent to Washington bul petition pe-tition No 2 showed nearly all the signatures sig-natures in the same handwriting with fictitious names meaning gran mother moth-er to write to steal on credit etc Petition No 3 contains 282 stnmnn and signatures of which ten are llc litiouH and 121 have been written by the same hand There also appears In this petition B31 slumps which have been used several limes One signature and stamp of an opiumdealer appears on nearly every page In ibis petition as well as In others Fictitious names such as thief pig your mind Is I readable read-able from your eyes Easier jade head and Yellow pumpkin appear In all the petitions V All of which proves anew thai for tricks that are vain the heathen Chinese Chi-nese continue to be peculiar and that they have nothing to learn from our most expert manipulators of public opinion |