Show HORRIBLE Many tales of liorror are told concerning concern-ing the Chinese and their ways but they are not always credited or credible So long have people been used to hearing of these horrible crimes and misdeeds from California that they have come to look with suspicion upon all of them and rarely do they believe any of them In Utah people have had no experience of Jliese things and probably never will have The absence of such experience has made us in Utah doubt to a great extent the existence of any such condition condi-tion of affairs as it is claimed exists in the Chinese quarters of San Francisco and California But tho San Francisco Post of Monday last relates the stoiy of one of these outrages not merely against California but lgai st llUmanity and the world The Post says thatsome months ago it made public the fact that many white infants in-fants were in the possession of the Chinese of that city and that they had come into possession of them by purchase from the lyingin hospital Such an announcement announce-ment served to throw the entire city into a state of intense excitement and as the result of the excitement the police bestirred be-stirred themselves and made thorough search and inquiry Their search and inquiry discovered nearly a score of babies in the possession of the Chinese which were rescued It was hoped that this discovery and rescue would result inputting in-putting a stop to this infamous trade in flesh and blood But the hope was vain Only last Saturday a case of this kind occurred oc-curred Detective Avan stopped a China man who was about to go on board the City of Peking bound for Hong Kong The Chinaman took unusual care to conceal con-ceal the face of the infant he carried in his arms and it was this excess of care that aroused the officers suspicions He found that the infant that the Chinaman carried was a white child and a girl a year and a half old As the Post remarks re-marks medals are given to men who save others from drowning and why should not one be awarded to Detective Avan Such things as this make one shudder to think from what shame and degradation degrada-tion that little child was saved it can but make men hold the Chinese in horror hor-ror But are they more criminal than those who have the lyingin hospital in charge and who according to the Post sell babes to the Chinese Is not the moral obliquity of the white person who can do such a thing greater than that of the Chinaman who purchases from them The laws against such practices should be of the severest nature and stringently enforced As the Post suggests above all every steamer leaving for China should be watched and searched and watched to see that white confederates do not carry them aboard for the Chinese |