Show CHINESE the number in san francisco Is rapidly increasing they are being courted by who are looking forward to the coming elections how they are enfranchised there are about 2000 chinese voters in this city and within the next five years or male chinese barn in this city will anve attained the age of 21 years and therefore will be entitled to ote they acquire this privilege under the amendment to constitution of the united states yet under the treaty between this country and china the voters father cannot be naturalized and is therefore not a citizen the population or the chinese quarter is about arl the coming chinese m addition to those who hae already ai rived at the voting age will soon cut an important figure in the politics 0 this city and state they are now being coin led by the politicians who are looking forward to 1896 notwithstanding the prohibitory laws chinese ti krogh columbia on the and come up through mexico on th south the chinese not only in nil li inda of industrial indu atrial labor but an leading the californians in the inami failure of many articles and are entering the professions they manufacture shoes and sell them at 25 to 1 per cent cheaper than does the can casian manufacturer they have nu marons morons where mending and re pairing arc done at cut rates and these cobblers are largely patronized by white people who are not averse to saving a few dimes they make line calfskin shoes for three and five dollars for which the white shoemaker will charge five and eight dollars they manufacture and retail cigars at one cent which the white man sells at two for five these are mainly purchased by youths and blatant hoodlums who stand upon the corners and denounce alie heathen recently several new markets have been established in the chinese quarter where every kind of ish and game may ba had fresh hundreds of chinese are continually engaged in fishing and trapping game A great deal is dried and shipped to eastern markets but it is common to see housewives and servants in the chinese markets bargaining for vegetables and fish A few years ago such a thing was not to be thought of bevies of women are seen daily in the chinese quarter buying ladies and chi ildren F shoes the manufacture of which is r specialty with the chinese and wherever a woman can get things cheaply she will purchase because she will then money to buy other things with the manufacture of is a specialty with these deft workers and their stores are daily visited by feminine shoppers selling vegetables and fish is one of their leading industries market hours continue throughout benders venders on foot and in wagons may be seen in all parts of the city crying their commodities in cracked voices and broken english in addition to shoes and all kinds of clothing aliey manufacture brooms jewelry and preserve and can all kind of fruit for shipment they learned this on the fruit ranches and in canneries where they were employed n one dollar a day now they the fruit can it and undersell then former employers when the caucasian manufactured imported what they termed heathen they little thought that in a few years they would have a rival ano one that is gradually driving them out of business the chinese w ent to worl at making shoes for a day supplanting white men who were receive ing three dollars a day the manufacturer fac who employed from 50 to men prided himself upon his stroke af economy now alie chinese have their own factories and in order w compete the white manufacturer mu sl act skilled labor at one dollar a or go out of business the same may in said of the other branches of indus try into which the chinese have entered to the neglect of our own heathen aiho are filling the prisons and reform lory institutions our avei zealous but mh guided missionary societies under took to christ this heathen who lias a religious belief much older than our civilization missions and schools were established and the missionaries sion aries passed through the slums of our city to the field of chinatown the shrewd chinese took advantage of this opportunity to learn english without purse or scrip and after they had graduated the missions saw them no more some of them cucu wore american clothing or civilized clothing as it is termed butti oti one of bliem ever cut off his queue the badge of his religion about the only real conversions were the white women teachers who married their chinese pupils As an evidence of their underhanded will sock work in a baskets factory and ina few months after he ikast learn edthe secrets of the business where the material may be obtained and who aretha customers he will bring his cousin to his employer saying me quits my cousin work all the fellow instead of going to china sets up 11 basket making or broom making shop im the chinese quarter and begins to undersell his former employer and also capture his customers the other chinese soon brings bis cousin to take his place continuing until enough of them have learned the business to set up a large factory it is by this means that they acquired the knowledge of shoemaking etc ban francisco cor philadelphia cimei |