Show THE LITTLE IJKOWN MANS VICES Tho attempt of tho clerical friends of the Chinese to belittle their vices is very foolish if not immoral Chinese vices are as much worse than whisky drinking drink-ing and tobacco smoking ns can well Iw imagined Their opium dens their private courts of assassination and their disgusting luiblts of lifo have no counterparts counter-parts in our civilization When therefore there-fore Dr A S Ficko of Ithaca N Y rises ns he did 1 before tho 1rcsbj terian Social Union in Chicago the other night to nay that opium smoking not as offen HIve as liquor drlnkini that tho private tribunals of tho Chinese vxhcie tho murderous highbinders get their ordera nro all right and that a people who prefer to live in cellars and holes and feed on vermin are morn clonnly that another an-other class of laborers ho exhibits both ignorance and prejudice Ho does not know what ho is talking about or else ho hils an idea of morality which happily dopn not obtain In this countiy |