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California (California, United States) (search for this): chapter 21
en, but we have our own religion; and our religion is not, like the Melican religion, only for those who like and only when they like. Our religion is for while we live and after we die. So, when the Five Companies agree to bring a man over to California, that is one thing; when they agree to take his ashes back to China, that is another thing. You see? The agreement to bring him over is a contract; the agreement to carry his ashes back is an obligation. Are all your passengers placed un the people to come over? The Five Companies send their agents up and down the provinces, both near the sea. and far in land, to tell poor people, who are pinched for rice and tea, of the great markets which are opening for their labour in California, Oregon, and Nevada. Of course they talk big. Melican talk big; Chinaman talk bigger than Melican. These agents say the hills are made of silver, and the rivers run with gold. They offer help, giving passes to such persons as care to move.
Nevada (Nevada, United States) (search for this): chapter 21
co free. We have a contract with the first class only; but we have our obligations towards the second class also, since we are bound to carry them back in case of death. Tell us how you begin your labour. Where do you find the people to come over? The Five Companies send their agents up and down the provinces, both near the sea. and far in land, to tell poor people, who are pinched for rice and tea, of the great markets which are opening for their labour in California, Oregon, and Nevada. Of course they talk big. Melican talk big; Chinaman talk bigger than Melican. These agents say the hills are made of silver, and the rivers run with gold. They offer help, giving passes to such persons as care to move. They find all means of transport; here by road, there by river; doing things so well --having plenty of rich men to help — that they bring a man to the coast in carts and boats for less money than he could get along on foot. For five dollars they pick him up in his vill
China (China) (search for this): chapter 21
Feeling some doubt as to the truth of this Chinese legend, taken as a whole, we seek for light age of the facts — the upper class of resident Chinese. Among the small group of rich and educated Chinese living in San Francisco, Lee Wong, a merchant of high standing and approved integrity, secoast. The Five Companies have their seats in China, and are known by the localities in which theiing; when they agree to take his ashes back to China, that is another thing. You see? The agreeme redeem his bond. Do the Five Companies in China take his personal bond, trusting to the Sixth es of our people till they can be sent home to China. Do many of your bondmen run away? The. Not men, but curs. Except these dogs, all Chinese go back-when they are dead. Still you are. In Melica, plenty land, not much people; in China, plenty people, not much land; so Chinamen likty people, not much land; so Chinamen like to live in Melica, and go back to China when they die. [6 more...]
America (Netherlands) (search for this): chapter 21
Chapter 21: the Chinese legend. The Chinese legend current in San Francisco is a little wild; making the Chinese in America a mere gang of bondsmen, owned by the Six Companies, and governed by an Asiatic Vehm Gericht, Grand Lodge or Council of Ten, who wield a secret and mysterious power, which neither male nor female can escape. Feeling some doubt as to the truth of this Chinese legend, taken as a whole, we seek for light among persons who are likely to have ferretted out the facts-oft the Six Companies? Six Companies! Your people make mistakes about these Companies. We have, in fact, Five Companies, not six. The body called by you the Sixth Company is a committee of management and arbitration, a local body, living in America, and charged with looking after business on the Pacific coast. The Five Companies have their seats in China, and are known by the localities in which their members live. These Five Companies are-1. Ning Yung; 2. Kwong Chaw; 3. Hop Wo; 4.
Oregon (Oregon, United States) (search for this): chapter 21
San Francisco free. We have a contract with the first class only; but we have our obligations towards the second class also, since we are bound to carry them back in case of death. Tell us how you begin your labour. Where do you find the people to come over? The Five Companies send their agents up and down the provinces, both near the sea. and far in land, to tell poor people, who are pinched for rice and tea, of the great markets which are opening for their labour in California, Oregon, and Nevada. Of course they talk big. Melican talk big; Chinaman talk bigger than Melican. These agents say the hills are made of silver, and the rivers run with gold. They offer help, giving passes to such persons as care to move. They find all means of transport; here by road, there by river; doing things so well --having plenty of rich men to help — that they bring a man to the coast in carts and boats for less money than he could get along on foot. For five dollars they pick him up
San Francisco (California, United States) (search for this): chapter 21
e legend. The Chinese legend current in San Francisco is a little wild; making the Chinese in Amoup of rich and educated Chinese living in San Francisco, Lee Wong, a merchant of high standing and The Sixth Company (or Committee) sits in San Francisco, where its functions are to receive the emy their own fares in Hong Kong and land in San Francisco free. We have a contract with the first cd by the Steam Company to our Committee in San Francisco. These five dollars paid by the Committee virtually a slave? In Canton, yes; in San Francisco, no. We never use such words. We are his on landing into our two great societies in San Francisco — the Wing Yung and the Fook Ting Tong — wcan magistrates. Nearly all the people in San Francisco think them bad men — paupers, convicts, anave our spies and head-men everywhere. In San Francisco we have many spies. It is thought a good ney or not. Money makes no difference. In San Francisco, you kill a man; if you have plenty money,[2 more...
Hong Kong (China) (search for this): chapter 21
Companies collect the emigrants, carry them to Canton and Hong-Kong, make all arrangements for their transport, and see them under bond to us; second, such as pay their own fares in Hong Kong and land in San Francisco free. We have a contract with rs they pick him up in his village, and carry him down to Hong-Kong. If he is poor they take his bond for those five dollarsk, for which they take a second bond. When he arrives in Hong-Kong, they get his licence and secure his berth. The fare is e Dead Fund. Then, as a rule, each man who sails from Hong Kong to San Francisco is not merely a pauper, but a pledged deompany have some authority over every man who comes from Hong Kong, and lands in this port? We have the moral obligationnamen good, some bad. Melican law make bad men worse. In Hong Kong if you kill a man, you will be hung, whether you have pleribunal that may cause delay in sending back his bones to Hong-Kong. Is such delay frequent? Yes, for months and year
Lee Wong (search for this): chapter 21
ve sure and perfect knowledge of the facts — the upper class of resident Chinese. Among the small group of rich and educated Chinese living in San Francisco, Lee Wong, a merchant of high standing and approved integrity, seems to be a man more likely than any other to give true answers to plain questions. Lee Wong happens to lLee Wong happens to lie under obligation to our excellent Consul, for certain good offices in connection with his business. He is willing to pay some portion of his debt, by giving us any information we may seek. We therefore ask him to a conference at the Consulate. He comes at the appointed hour, and after formal compliments we seat him in a chair, so that the majesty of Queen Victoria's face may beam into his Asiatic eyes. Will you be kind enough to tell us, Lee Wong, about the Six Companies? Six Companies! Your people make mistakes about these Companies. We have, in fact, Five Companies, not six. The body called by you the Sixth Company is a committee of man
Tong (search for this): chapter 21
n San Francisco — the Wing Yung and the Fook Ting Tong — where he is watched over in life and death. What are these great societies of Wing Yung and Fook Ting Tong? Wing Yung is our living office, near the county jail. When the ships arrive we bring our people to Wing Yung, where we lodge them, feed them, and hire them out. Fook Ting Tong is our Dead Office, in Laurel Hill Cemetry, where we lay the ashes of our people till they can be sent home to China. Do many of your bondmen run away? They cannot run away. They have no food, no money. They speak no English words; they know no Melican magistrates. Nearly all the people in San Franciur bonds and mortgages, the sway which those who lend money have on their debtor. All beyond is moral force-and the two great societies of Wing Yung and Fook Ting Tong. Chinese ourselves, we understand our brethren; having the same religious rites, the same family sentiment, as the poorest followers of Tao and Buddha. Our chief
Booker (search for this): chapter 21
of Ten, who wield a secret and mysterious power, which neither male nor female can escape. Feeling some doubt as to the truth of this Chinese legend, taken as a whole, we seek for light among persons who are likely to have ferretted out the facts-officers of police and ministers of religion; but for several weeks we search in vain. The Chinese legend is in books and magazines, and no one cares to ask his neighbour whether that current legend be true or false. At length, by help of Consul Booker, we approach the only people who have sure and perfect knowledge of the facts — the upper class of resident Chinese. Among the small group of rich and educated Chinese living in San Francisco, Lee Wong, a merchant of high standing and approved integrity, seems to be a man more likely than any other to give true answers to plain questions. Lee Wong happens to lie under obligation to our excellent Consul, for certain good offices in connection with his business. He is willing to pay
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