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Show INTERMINGLING OF CHINAMEN AND WHITE GIRLS. The father of Elsie Slgel. breaking the silence he has maintained since the finding of the body of his daughter, daugh-ter, relates how Leon Ling, an admirer ad-mirer of Elsie, was one of several Chinamen who attended a party at the Slgel house on June S. while Mr. Sigel was absent from home. Leon, so Mr. Sigel is informed, came to the party drunk. "He called Elsie to one sldo and told her that if she had anything to do with his rival for her affections, he would kill them both". This Is a startling disclosure of t"ie mingling of the Occident and the Orient in New York City. The Sigels are highly respected, in fact they are among the elite of the big city, and their daughter Elsie was so enthusiastically religious that sue was selected by the church peoplo to, labor among the "heathen Chinee." The Chinamen in this country are principally of the coolie class from the district In and around Canton, China. They are a treacherous people when fired by hatred or prompted by material gain or sensuality. In San Francisco's old Chinatown they lived in a world quite their own. having underground dens and secret passages where white-men white-men had never been. Almost -weekly murders were committed .ind Highbinders High-binders ruled the place with guns and knives. There were comparatively few Chinese women there who were other than prostitutes or Imported slaves. Morality was never thought of and tho only fear that possessed tho average "Mongolian" was that of tho Devil, who was propitiated by offers of rice and chicken. The Chinamen who make up New York's Chinatown are tainted with the same corruption that prevails among the Chinese of the Pacific Coast. They arc tarred with the samo stick. To accept them into the homes of American?, Ameri-can?, where there are young impressionable impres-sionable girls and to send those girls out to the dens of these licentious creatures arc crimes a thousand-fold greater than the tolerating of bagnios in isolated parts of a city, for in the first case virtue Is inveigled, eventually eventual-ly to be robbed, wiile no one is deceived de-ceived as. to the purpose of the houses of the underworld. The story of the opening of homes In Now York to Chinamen comes as a shock to western people, where miscegenation mis-cegenation Is viewed with abhorrence, and is legislated against. This placing plac-ing of a Chinaman on an equality with a white girl and encouraging association as-sociation and confidence could onlv come through the blinding of the eves of parents with faith in the power of religion to purify, sanctify and save j even a degenerate Chinaman. |