Show CHINESE wickedness IN NEW YORK llie ibe chinese question nas one ODO of jhc thc most dilli cult problems to solve ali flat it like american Anici ican con congress ices his has been lican called upon to deal with fit relent joins 0 lit ti lie hiie hill ham aks tile hnud principle of tile american constitution and civit civil policy is which guarantees a home belle beneath kill I 1 alic lie stirs mars and stripes to tile opp oppressed lessed of nil nations of course china on oil the lie other oilier hand noo cie the allegations of 0 the alic moral lateral de pravit of 0 the lie chinese suil and the impossibility of transforming itself into useful soft and valuable american citizens the proof in ii support of these allegations came principally from the pacific Coast constand Coa stand nud was iris so fir far credited in ill congress ns As to induce that body to lo enact a law prohibiting for it a PC period of twenty yours years the f further it arther im ila lui migration of chinese chinene into alli lii country who advocated tile the necessity of such null 1 a I lily law will doubtless deem deatra their position strengthened by recent developments in ill new N CW yet york k city which certainly are arc dot colon laical to cri liance the public citira tima lien in ED which the chinese ire are held beld i if published accounts ot of dicel are arc true 1 alic lie new cw york MCI IM been exposing some of the chinese opium dens of that city and tile accounts it publishes of them are shocking in tile extreme it seems that girls bariny of them Incie children kranjik ranging from belito lan to twenty years of asere age rare arc lured to these vile places and there taught to smoke opium is as a training to a worse vice the herold herald says tile facts about tile modus ope operands randl by N latch scores biou pliant scores of burls eirls on have been lured bared to lo physical anti ami moral rula are arc in a tho the extreme tu in one den in reu ical N which bich Is con coil ducle dby abac ol of the most depra tied type there liae bale been evil iila ol of front ten to twenty years ol of age c I 1 cuned in ill 1 a 1 T back room up tip a still murkier 61 0 13 tho denobile ati while the front room loom to evies 51 a a sort eort ol of parlor here it in i 1 that hat little girls are induced to first firt firstal units tal tile fell drug NN bit it is intended to apte tho way v to tomoia ile biu tho the N lethal is coa coaxed x c d x up ip stairs by some one n no he knows lier ter ruid onee once lusa iu among lOll tho I agid ery toung creatures tt 00 oo tie lio I 1 lime im e ali 1 kaily d y b sk v ft reek reeked ell they are arc induced to try so pig pip at opium alic ollae ti if ance are arc disei ibid and abid ilia gill I 1 tries out ol of I 1 ty let first drat few indies art are flanked in a ceremonious wy way with willi evcic one oo 00 and urean abion a oun chinaman who aws how bow to roli roll the opium and fix the pipe is introduced is as a companion As soon OB as the h I 1 la become addicted to the opium habit her ratio is cainey accomplished and thus it Is that wro aclo ol of girlhood sit in the darkened room loom in pell itu street meet and waste M ay their bonns hi ta helpless victims of 0 tile the keep ers loci and their customers the herald describes the of a catholic charitable to scenic the arrest of Chil linvell who were the icee keepers pers of 0 opium dens then follows a long lon account of 0 R want a reporter ot of lite herald saw find and bicard while ascertaining the life linth about the vile ilcin kept t liy lay the chinese situated principally principal y it in I 1 that of the city formerly fon known as 11 five ive Pa points ilits a region where poverty and crime moat ilio o abounds anol anil his acomie ot of his experience is w king in to hie to extreme late tit nl night dight while watching certain localities in the vicinity mentioned lie he saw a large lare number of young g girls some ome of of tender cutler years enter the alic ulc lite places kept by chinese CLin cac for the ali purpose of smoking mucking opium and en engaging a ing in n ore e dogs lie ile saw ei c ideale going ing to show that these ichi white tc girls were intimate with tile the chinese of these opium houses ani and that the were making makin sail sad havoc of the morals of many of the daughters of respectable residents in ill that file ic porter describes individual tasca of if eirls girls whose u names and ami addresses add reses lie ind ami depicts the results of the hie opium habit babit contracted by blim and of their association h with rith the chinese the anti chinese law was certainly cerbin ly a of a fundamental principle of american institutions lut but it if anything could have justified it such a condition of things as the herold herald describes among tile the chinese of new york would tender render it justifiable the broader and more liew would lio be to give the chinese the ike same privileges of inuos immigration ration and inize it ahill that are arc efte extended doled to other oilier nationalities and then enforce the law 1371 8 upon them IS they would on he be enforced upon buy any other class of residents |