SLAVERY UNDER ANOTHER NAME.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2513, 18 August 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)

SLAVERY UNDER ANOTHER NAME.

The system of Chinese emigration is a system of complete slavery. It is conducted by six companies as wealthy as they are powerful. Each company is protected by the Chinese Government. Their home agencies are in Canton and Hong Kong. They are represented all through the interior of China by coolie traders. These agents, as the Hon. C. E. De Long, late Minister to China, reported to our Government find, for example, a family of old people with sons and daughters. As is common enough, the poor creatures have had a constant trouble to keep body and soul together. The trader offers to buy the services of a son or a daughter, agreeing to give to the old people a sum of money down, and stipulating to feed and clothe the boy or

irl, and to return him or her, dead or live, to the parents in China, after the erm of service has expired. In consideation for this, the young man or woman igns a contract which is absolutely rightful in its conditions. He or she grees to give faithful service to his or er master for a term of 6, 8, or 10 years, s the case may be, and, for a guarantee f faithful service, father, mother, brother nd sister are mortgaged with thousand penalties in case the Brvice is not properly performed. The asult is that the coolie is bound body nd koul, and hence, when the inspector sks, "Are you learing China of your wn free will ?" the answer is, "I am." .nd when called upon to testify on tho pot, he answers just as may please his laster. The men, toiling day after day i a strange land, are simply paying a ebt to keep their fathers and mothers •om starving. Mr Thomas J. Vivian übiisbed a financial view of these hinese companies, which showed that ley received from tho Celestials in merica a yearly stipend in proportion to le money they earned, and that the ■suit presented a vast profit to the nigratiou contractors. Of the six commies the Sam Youp is the most powcril organisation and the most enterprisig. Sain Youp men may not only be mnd in California, but in the other States id territories, from Tucson to Puget )und, and from San Francis to Masbusetts and New York. " Sam Youp lays 3W railroads in the Southern countries, :ws timber in the North, makes cigars i Sacramento and washes in Boston, im Youp is uhiquitous and all-powerful; i tenia I in the care .of its members, and nx-like iu the watchfulness of its own terests." Then, too, the Chinaman ves no loyalty to any one outside the impany. He has to pay taxes to the Red-haired Devils," who imprison ieves and murderers ; but he owes them > further obedience, and, while all the or.ey he earns goes back to China, he mains to feed on the stranger, and leapens labour to such an extent as to *ep the whites out of their natural larters of colonisation. This is the Duble the Washington Government has :aling with over some years of legisla>n, and the China question in America on "all fours with the China question in e British colonies.—Sunday Times. At the date of the recent decision of e Brazilian Chamber of deputies, votg the immediate and unconditional olition of slavery in that country, there ;re over 320,000 slaves in Brazil under years of age, and over 800,000 under years. Thus the decision affects the itus of over a million human beings, A young minister of Pennsylvania was lied to supply a mountain village near a Maryland border. His flock was dly aud quiet, but very Dutch, with t a slight understanding of the English lgunge. Once be called upon a little 1 woman who was lying at home very k. They conversed together with more less success for a while. Shs 1 old. him 2 had been a Lutheran for srmi sittye years. "Why, that is a long time, c •s Baunig," said the minister. "Yab," msly rejoined the old lady ; "it beats ; devil how long time I've leen a i theran." I