Show california AND SLAVERY there is probably as much personal liberty in the state of california as in any part of the civilized world yet that state is now acquiring a notoriety in this country and in europe for being as nearly in a condition of maintaining slavery as though the latter were permitted by law one feature that gives rise to this impression is the virtual slavery in which many chinese women are stated by the golden state papers to be kept beyond the reach of a correction of this evil by officers of the law another is the incident of 13 year old emma davis who is now en route over the continent bound for her former home in rock perry ferry a few miles above liverpool england four years ago this little girl came to america with a family named tubbs and since then has lived with them at madera cal she was not well treated by the tubbs family in fact was kept in a condition of serfdom according to the state papers in her account as published she says 1 I have never been inside a schoolhouse mrs tubbs made me do all the work of the place and I 1 had to do the too along with the men they used to send me to the saloons for beer and I 1 got thrashed with a stick every day I 1 often asked about my father and mother but they told me that nobody had ever written from england about me so I 1 thought all my people were dead last week they sent me away to fresno in a great hurry and I 1 wondered what was the matter then the officers came and told me that kind people were looking tor for me and that I 1 was never going back to the vineyard any more mor e but would be sent home to england I 1 was so happy that I 1 cried for a long time I 1 thought before that that I 1 would be a slave girl all the rest of my life the san francisco papers say that the authorities have been working for eight months to secure the girls freedom the statement of this little girl which probably to Is true and the accounts of the case in the california papers will go to great britain and elsewhere and with what result the idea will be conveyed that not only is s slavery lavery possible but is a common condition in that state A few exceptional instances partially a result of official neglect can do incalculable damage to a great commonwealth as is being done now to Cali fornias reformation |