A CHRISTCHURCH CASE.

NZ Truth, Issue 93, 30 March 1907, Page 5

A CHRISTCHURCH CASE.

Tempting the Little Children.

That malodorous person, the unspeakable Ohow is getting a good deal of attention m Maoriland just now, and not before it was time. The pestiferous monc;ol is now being recognised as a real menace to the health and well-being of. the community. His morals are as cronk, as his walk ; he doesn't know what "morality means; he. is the seducer of young girls, and any other class of petticoat that he c£n lay hold of, and why alleged respectable women can demean, themselves to deal, with the dirty yellow .heathen passes comprehension. But' for groceries, and washing,- ,a»d $je , cabbagee, callbtee, lupub and wg^able-mallow these women are stjutoph patrons of the mongrels from'-dffife East. In Christchurch the Chinkie's washing-shops are appearing a)I over the city, and they seem to be gaining charge lof the whole blaiiky business; In fact there have been va%ue rumors of more than one white laundry' being obliged to close down owing to the competition of the scum of the earth. The fact of young ejirls being lured into the filthy back premises of these yello\v beasts has been printed m- these colums ' before, but it is -more widely practised m r Ghristch'urch than is generally supposed, or even suspected. The fact remains i however, that these loathsome, j leoherous people, with the sovereigns-colored visage, make v the girlish population paymaiden tribute m a manner parents, and guardians, don't think about. The other day a child of fourteen or thereabouts called at a Chinkie's for some washing ; it was .

A VERY SMALL PARCEL : [ and didn't look as W- it would run into more than .a few pence. There, was a gentleman present who was being attended to, by . another Mongol, and he was noticing things. ''How much do I owe you now, John," asked the kid, sauoily. "Oh, only 3s lid," retorted John. -"But that's all litee, missie," he said with a. leer. ■■' so instead of paying him she went out to spend the money, which she had m her hand, and which her mother no doubt thought had been paid the .Cliinaman. Now, wihy didn't the Chink take that money.'? Has game is but sure, and is pretty well bound to come off— it it hasn't happened already. Such a young child is easily lured, and that is the Mongol 's game every time with youngsters who are more bold and. brazen than, they should be. The gentf wJ*b had witnessed the proceedings then began to think a devil of a lot. These heathens, he reflected, wouldn't trust, him •.a *ewbob's worth of credit, but they would a girl who was still under the age of consent by at least a couple of years, if appearances went for anything. He is off Chows now, and his laundry work is done elsewhere. <If everybody only followed his example the ' rotten CMnkie's would speedily find the place a good one to get out of. There are too many girls debauched m these loathsome, hovels, where nice, clean linen is turned out with the micrbbes of G-od knows what clinging to it. And yet parents , send maids there, perhaps m all innocence, and— well, it's time 'they were educated up to something better, a proper knowledge of their responsibilities which, of course, includes the moral welfare of their progeny.