THE CHINESE CURSE.

NZ Truth, Issue 83, 19 January 1907, Page 5

THE CHINESE CURSE.

AN. EARNEST WARNING TO PARENTS. Chinese Stores Altars of Lust. Confuscians One of the Curses of Chicago. Their Methods of Obtaining Wives.

One matter likely to receive the attention, and God knows not before it is wanted, of Parliament next session is the rapid advance of the Chinaman and the steady inflow of the alien race into the colony. What Parliament will do, if it does anything, ito grapple with this yellow curse, it is hard indeed to say. Whether a Commission of Enquiry will be appointed to investigate the condition of the Chow m New Zealand, or whether an Alien Restriction Act,, absolutely forbidding Chinese immigration into the colony will be paased. are matters presumably resting with the Government, who made a loud cry of a White New Zealand at the beginning; but seem now to, nave forgotten all about it. There is one thing as certain as that the earth revolves en its axis, and that if nothing is attempted or done, the present anti-Chinese feeling— and this paper is • roud of the part it has played m the crusade— is such that the evolution of more Lionel Terrys will be effected, and to effect the evolution of a Lionel Terry is sotaiethnvg achieved. Mad as they pretend that Terry is, his name will live longer m the memory of the people than Ihn.se of a worthless, shifty, set -of politicians playing at the game of. statesmanship. Lionel Terry was no murderer ; he was the instrument of a Higher Be-' m.":. It is coming to this, dangerous doctrine as it sounds, that to take the life of a member of one of the most degraded races on the face of the earth, ia to give emphasis to a protest that the white race must be freed from such a source of contamination. Will the enunciation of such a dangerous doctrine that

KILLING IS NO MURDER move the People ? China is awakening, we hear ; then let us iirst lull him to sound repose before fair New Zealand is overwhelmed by the Asiatic horde.

What will move you, mothers and fathers, husbands and brothers ? Are you going to stand' idly by and hear weekly (and the daily press . will not sully its columns with, the' disgusting details) stories of this Mongolian menace to N.Z. maidenhood ? Is the honor of your child, or your sister or those near and dear to you of such infinitesimal importance "to you that that you need not pause and consider the possibility of being grand-parent, uncle, aunt, cousin or blood relative to a-, little half-caste Chinese bastard, /ire you av^are that by your cold neglect and indifference and blindness and deafness to an evil never. more pronounced that now, you are practically playing the "grand, role" of Pander to .the .Alien by bfi'ermg your maiden child . as a sacrifice .to the Mongol Minotaur ? Thrfc is what j ? oi! do whf-n you send your rfauj?Mer to the Chinese store. That is^whyYow Lee told Detective Williams the other day that "plenty smaller come here." Persist m sending your daughter, ths tender plant so tenderly reared, so susceptible to the Oriental touch of impurity, to the atore and you deserve to have m your family a Chow begotten hybrid. Will this terrible warning suffice, or must the horrors, the terribly degrading exposures made m New Zealand nearly twenty years ago be dragged to daylight now. Will it suffice to .say that m and about the year 1886 there were more female children ruined by this devilish race m God's Own Country" (ths satire and blasphemy of it ! ) than the police then cared to admit. What head of a family of 18-86, not only m lowly circumstances but those well blessed with the Rood things of the world, will care to be reminded of the day he 'learned with shame and sorrow that his young daughter, a^e and eldar one, too, had been ruined by these lecherous yellow fiends, over whom the Law exercised' no control. Many of those cases were carefully suppressed ; the families were allowed to keep the skeleton m the cupboard, but like hideous, grinniJi" 1 phantoms they are hovering about us now. The state of affairs existing m 1888 i» eclipsed, if that %ere possible, by what is 'going on tddav. The police, and they are seemingly powerless to act, openly admit that r ninety-nine per cent, of the Chinese shops m Wellington are

BURNING ALTARS OP LUST the sacrifices o n which are our whiiteskinned daughters. This is no exaggeration ; it is police testimony. The police cannot protect you. Who will •? Nobody but yourselves. Buy what you want from white men. Boycott the Chow. Send your 'daughters to the Chinese store and her utter ruin will foe on your ov/n heads. If your future great-grand-children have Mongolian Wood coursing through their veins, hell's fire will not have' torments enough for you.'

In Wellington alone we are rearing a choice brood of half-caste Chinese. In years to come .they will seek, and even now they are seeking, wives. And where do they expect to find them ? In New Zealand, of course, "their own native country," and they will cast covetous eyes on your fair daughters. And they will woo and win them, and rear more mongrel broods. Once a white woman becomes a victim, willing or unwilling, to this slant-eyed race, she can never hope to rear her head again m respectable society. She is

A SOCIAL LEPER and an outcast. Educate your daughters, and your sons, too, to hate and fear the race, so that your daughters will help to keep the nations blood undefiled, 'so that your sons' hatred and fear will help him vent bis preuidice. aye, even as Lionel Terry did, if the occasion arises.

There are m 'evenry community white-skinned apologists for the Chinese, who is described by these mean whites as honest and industrious ; but never is a word said of theiir morals. The Chinaman is said to be kind to his wife. The kindness is this: T-Te docs the hescvor': ; he keorss his wife m idleness : she npvf»r soils hftr hands. So kind is the Chi-

naman that we find that at a recent inquest on a Chinese white-skinned paramour he allowed her to drink herself to death. Opium and drink generally help to kill the Chinaman's wife qr paramour and fancy the kind of children an opium-smoking, harddrinking woman is likely t 0 bear to a Chinaman ! And these children, m years to come will seek their connubial couch-mates. Where the Chinaman gets a footing, vice, squalor and misery are inevitable. They axe most of them cruel, lustful, lecherous satyrs. The white wives of Chinamen m New Zealand were not always what they are, bvtt by degrees they succumbed to the fatal hypnor tism of the yellow man ; he dtagged them down and they seemed powerless to resist. Wellington is not the only city m the world ; nor New Zealand the only country m the world where the Chinaman has sought and secured a white-skinned wife. It is the same everywhere. There is the same

TRAFFIC WITH YOUNG GIRLS ; but because a similar state of affairs, better or worse, is found m other climes that is no reason why the fight, of the \vhite against Yellow for race i preservation should not be fought out unrelentingly and to the bitter, and, if need he, bloody end. In many American cities besides San Francisco the invasion of the Chinese is alarming. Chicago has been, stirred of late by the announcement that there are about 200 white girls m that city who are married to Chinamen. On an average of over"" one a month the Celestials of the Windy City continue to win white brides.

The downfall of the white race before the yellow m the Japanese war seems to have inspired not only -the Japs but the Chinese with new claims of equality. One' result is the increase of marriages between white girls and Chinamen, which has* been noticed m all our large, cities during the last year, says an American paper.

But this wiping out of racial prejudices is not given by the brides themselves as their reason foir choosing Chinamen. Twenty-five of the most recently-wedded gave the following as the object of their aotion :— Love, money, opium, a home, kindness.

But, behind thesre assigned reasons is, another and deeper reason. That is that a Chinaman, when foe takes a white bride, wipes out her vast entirely, and, no matter what she midlifc have been, she, as his wife, is honored. . •

The "Tribune" Roes on to say that the Chinaman never considers marriage until- be is financially able to support, a wife, m which h8 differs from the white races; but, like the white, he believes^ m the' power of money to make coifftsjbiip. ;£asy— and he srettds lavishly. Ttin^y -take him w.eeVfi to attract the attention of the object of Ms love to himself, but once he has made her acquaintance and broken down the racial barrier, HIS PRO&RESS IS RAPID. He spends money, he banquets her m the private rooms of. chop suey restaurants, and— it is alleged— if then she does not agree to marry him, he does not surrender and mourn the loss, but -he inveigles her into smoking opium— and, havnicr- once tasted the charms of 'the pipe,' she is his. For a few weeks she smokes.

Then, perhaps, she is arrested m some Chinese house, dazed and filled with opium dreams. When abe is bailed out by the Chinaman who does a-, professional bond business she returns. She knows the police will pick her up if she is found m the Chinese haunts, and then comes a proposal of marriage.

The girl knows that once married she can smoke as long as she pleases, m her own home, secure from molestation by the police and secure and certain of opium as long as she may want it. So she becomes the bride of the Chinaman, and lounges m the •rrilded den he /its tip for her, scarcely ever caring; to ' go out— even were she permitted, which she seldom is, except m company with her lord and master, who, during his leisure moments, delights m taking her out, attired m her most gorgeous gowns,, to dma with him.

But not half of the brides are won by opium. Some admit that they married Chinamen while under the influence of the drwr.. which Wiled the prejudices against Chinamen, but the reasons alleged by the others are varied. .

. Naturally the Chinaman's chaHoes of meeting white women are not numerous or. auspicious. They meet them sometimes m chop suey restaurants, at the counters of stores down town and m the missions. An investigation of the old tradition that white women and GIRLS WHO WORK IN CHINESE MISSIONS are won by Chinamen (revealed the fact that so far as the mission workers themselves and the Chinese know, there is but one such case on record m Chicago.

That the <Chinaman might become a dangerous rival of the white man m love affairs if he had equal opportunities is shown by the fact tnat m a period of 18 months m 1905 six f^irls m one department of one of the big down-town department stores married Chinamen. The first raid upon the department beauties was by Eop Sun, who won a pretty bride and took her away. Whether her, marriairo to the Chinaman and the visits of her chums to her beautifully furnished little flat on the south side caused the. stampede, or whether the friends of Hop Sun met these friends and improved their opportunities for courtship, is not stated, but at any rate five others on that floor wwl.rl Chinamen m the next year and a half.

Hop Sun refuses to-tel! t!is maulon name of his vhit? wife, and rihc vcfusps to tell t]v n mies o r Tier friends;. Wh A n ni'o,st;orr : -is to. why she marrierl a Chin- "- on, Mrs Hop Sun grew a hit indignant..

"Opium had nothing to do with it.. My husband does not smoke, and no(tj one of his' friends who married the white girls that I know smokes, I married my husband because I liked him, and because he is kind and generous. I have plenty of money and plenty of clothes. I have my own servant, and Hop insisted on my* mother coming to live with us. SHE CARES FOR HIM almost as she would for her own son. "True, I don't go out much, except with him. I married a Chinaman, and I intend to live as he wants me to live. My friends and I exchange calls. We go to the theatre, and I have my baby to care for. I am hapry and have comforts that no white man would have given me." When a white girl' marries P Chinaman the problem of the mother-in-law is settled at the same time. Instead of taking the comic paper view of the mother-in-law, the Chinaman insists on treating her with even more regard than he does his wife, I and m perhaps a third of the households m which white brides live with | their yellow husbands the girl's mother is one of the inmates who are honored and treated with deference. The social life of the white brides of Chinamen is limited m the extreme. Not only are they barred from any. intimate social life with the Chinese wives, but the lines between the tongs are. closely drawn. If a WHITE GIRL MARRIES A • CHINAMAN and her chum happens to marry a; Chinaman of another company* *they, cannot meet except as strangers. In their own households they rule— if they prove good housekeepers there is no trouble. They are supplied with, nlenty of money to spend for household wants and with more than enough for themselves. They dresa beautifully, and m most cases the only complaint uttered by them is that they are/forced to live m squalid neighborhoods. The Chinaman's idea of comfort at home means the interior. He does not care about the exterior, how dinn-v or even dirty it may be, and he never is m the market for exclusive residence property. An. alley apr nears to suit him better than a 1 street, and he seems to prefer a ! down-town street, the narrower the better, to suburban property.