o TH EE AMERICAN. iiiiMro. X ("ormponuVnt itf To A merlon Till What Hp Saw. Sortie Unit! go 11. H. Kirhy Invaded Chinatown, in San Francisco, and tliU I what bf has to nay almut hi vUll: lU'injf of an inquiring mind, and thinkiiij; the Chiaiaman a morv ela tied amlriHt than alnntnir, I determined to lnvetijraUj for mMlf, m a jmrty of four, im'Uullii the i'uldc. who wan an . -policeman, took the town in, a the ayltif ih. Wo ftartcd alwul 8 p. iu., and di voted uKuit four hour to tho job. Chinatown proper cover about twenty blocks, or njiiare, live one way and four the other. Tho firxt ihinjr to bo, learned la that a Chiuaman neither eaU nor wear any thing produced in thin country If be can poMibly get it from hi native UnJ. Tho tirr-t place we investigated wan their markets, where we saw the food fret.li from China. I will enumerate some of the lmortalloii: Sujjar cane cut 10 to 12 inchca In length. They boil that and Ret a ayrup out of it that an wers for tnolatutcs; watermelon, MjuntihoB, common jn-ppora or mangola, rice and beans. The lcans are put in water and left there until the itprouU are 10 or 12 Inchoa long, when the vprouU are taken and cut In Binall pieces' and then smashed Into a kind of pulp or cake about the ttizo of a teacup and one-half inch thick. 1'Ihbo arc sold two for a nickel, and tho flavor from those rotten bean bprouta did not have the smell of Hoses. The next was chickens and ducks, cleaned, cut In halves with the heads left on. The chicken i cooked, pressed and packed In boxes and chipped hero. The feet are cooked and tied in bunches like radibhos or early turnips The giz zards and entrails of tho chicken Is treated the same as the feet. Imagine chicken-head soup flavored with rotten bean sprouts and chicken entrails. Hut don't let your stomach get away with you, for we have something more de licious In store for you, such as eausage made of puppies and the fat of hogs. The dog is cooked, chopod aud stuffed in skins like oi.r sausage, about one-half inch of fat pork and then one-half inch of dog, as I was told. The half inch of hog would be white, while tho next half Inch would be dark, so one can Im agine how Inviting It would look, to say nothing of the taste. Next comes the dried frogs and fish, with just enough salt to keep them, but not enough to keep them from stinking. Then comes dried mushroom and squash, i Onions and garllch are Im ported green, and there arc other veg etables that I dlu not see. Duck eggs are packed In pulverized charcoal mixed with water or soma other liquid to make a paste of It, and each egg Is rolled In it and packed in boxes, about 100 In a box, and the first time "his eggship" sees the light of day after be ing packed is when he arrives in Chinatown, in San Francisco. While the United States, I suppose, raises as good rice as any in tho world, Mr. Chinaman will not cat it if he can get it from his own country; all the seed that will grow In this country, the Chinese gardener Imports from his own country. We will now go to the butcher shop. You seldom sea meat hung up in their shops or btoret; it mostly all lays on benches or blocks, and some on the floor. Some of the hogs are split in half and roasted, brains, eyes and all. The reason for this is that nearly all the poor or laboring clut-s of the Chinese each does his own cooking, so by going to the butcher he gets a slice of cooked hog. Take an empty fruit can, sit it on a Couple of bricks, and take a couple of wooden barrel hoops and he can cook enough rice to do him for two days; so with pork, rice and a couple of cakes of rotten bean sprouts, Mr. Chinaman will have what we used to call in the army A square meal. We will now go to the doctor shop or drugstore. They have no bottles or jars labeled like anyone else, but keep their medicines in drawers, about fifty in number, and no mark of any kind on the drawers. The druggist is supposed to have each and every one in his mem ory, ana instead of the doctor going to the sick person, the patient Is supposed to come to the store for his medicine. The sick man states his case, when the medicine man goes to these drawers, takes out his stuff and puts it in a little iron pot In the back room, cooks it down, while the sick man waits for it the same as a hungry man would wait for a meal at a restaurant. Now, their medicine may be all right, for I am no big medicine taker myself, but I don't think I want any of it, and I don't think -any sane man will after I tcii ,-,11 V lm . their medicine is composed of: Dried locust, beetles, scorpions, lizzards,drag- gon flies and any number of insects that I never saw before, for they were all imported from China, with some roots and herbs. But what amused me most was that the poor sick devil has to go to the doctor instead of the doctor go ing to him, and sit there and wait until his dose is cooked. If the patient had the cholera or some other 'fetch-me- quick" disease, the doctor would lose the price of his medicine, for the under taker would get the man while the medicine was cooking. We have gone through the grocery, meat shop and drug store, and now we will go to his sleeping apartments. The first place was an old frame building. In year cone by it had Usee a theatre, but was now a ale plr.g arliinul. There was a hallway built through the middle of the building, and every tlx feet a floor wa put in and an oen hall or varatida alout four feet wide opposite each story, and the rooms often off of this varatida. The room are about eight feet deep by i-evcn wide, and each room has four bunks, to below and two above, ac cominiHlatlng eight ktsoiis, and they are seldom empty. Their bedding eon titsU of a block of wood eight inches square and sixteen inches long, cov ered with nothing but a gunny sack rolled around it and sewed on, and two gunny suck laid on that board shelf constitute their sleeping apartments. I don't think they takeoff their clothes to sleep, only their underclothing, aud 1 don't think that Is rulable, for I aw some sleep with all their clothes on. Just imagine how pleasant it would be to occupy a room of the slte above men tioned, then have eight men in it, four of them smoking tobacco and the other four smoking opium, and when the door is closed there Is only ono show for air, and that is a hole just above the door 8x12 inches. The holes are just large enough to keep anyone from getting In and stealing from them. This alley way or varanda extends from the ground floor to the top of the building, and the ground is covered with brick, with a kind of a brick range running through the middle of it, but no chim ney, and here each follow cooks his own meals and furnishes his own wood. Between 5 and 7 in the evening you cau see that pluco lined with Chinamen cooking their supper. Each fellow keeps his own wood and cooking uten sils in his room. These rooms rent tor two dollars a month, and down In the basement, and even under the sidewalks, where one time it was used for store rooms, such as is used for coal bunks in the east. These animals take one of these pluces, not over eight feet square, put in an extra floor above, and four sleep upon the shelf, and put about a dozen bricks on the floor and do tholr cooking there, so that four men will cook, eat, smoke and sleep in a room eight feet square and lees than eight feet high, under the sidewalk, with not a spark of light and only the regulation hole 8x14 through which to get breathing material. These rooms rent $1.50 a month. I was told that in this building alone 1,300 Chinamen sleep every night, but that is only one building of that kind, but this is the largest, and Is called the Palace Hotel, on account of the hollow-square In the center like the Palace bar. We will now investigate the opium smoker. Nearly all smoke it more or less. It is quite an art, as well as a novelty, and difficult to illustrate with out seeing it. The opium comes in cans, I believe two ounces in a can, and is worth IS an ounce. It is the con sistency of a thick paste, and a dark brown color. The opium plje I can compare it to nothing but the bottom of a tea-cup with the convex side out and a small hole in the center not larger than a knitting needle. This little hole connects with a quarter inch hole in the back of the pipe, where a wooden stick or stem two feet long is inserted to draw the smoke through to the mouth. But the opium has to be pre pared before it is ready to smoke. The process is this: A small lamp is placed on the bunk, a little wire like a knitting needle Is run Into the opium box and a portion about the size of a pea will ad here to the wire, which is held over the blaze and cooked as long as Jhere appears to be any moisture left in it or it ceases to boil, when what is left Is placed over the small hole in the pipe and held over the blaze of the lamp and the smoke drawn through the little hole into the mouth. One roast or cooking will make three what an old smoker would call whifs or mouthfull's, and It takes from three to six smokes or roasts to produce stupor and put them to sleep. If the opium was not roasted before smoking it would cause death by poisoning, hence the roasting. In years gone by white men and women used to visit these opium dens, and it was having a telling effect on some of the most respectable people of the city, and stringent laws were passed pro hibiting white people in any of these places. If any person thinks the "heathen Chinese" are greatly abused, let them go through Chinatown and get a cor rect history of them, and I will venture to say that their opinions will be ma terially changed. They are a daylight robbery on this country. They buy nothing in Amer ica it they can get it from China, and every dollar they get goes back to their native country, and it is estimated that 1170,000,000 in the last twenty years haa gone to China, never to return to Uncle Sam, and the people of the Pacific slope have just cause to make war on that class of their inhabitants. Their joss houses, or mode of worship, and the disposition of their dead will be a chapter for another time. "The divine right of kings" is a bar barous myth. "Apostolic succession" may please prelates and bishops and befog the minds of those who never think seriously for themselves, but human liberty never grew into self government under the mvths of kingly or hierarchial power The Champion- Atctuson, has. HOME AM) M.AVEKY. African .Slavery Ha- 1 IrM Instituted by Human Catholic. Many otherwise Intelligent people have been misled by the boast of Home that she has been an opponent of physi cal slavery. In a recent lssuo of the Christum Iwjuirfr, Uev. Dr. It. S. Mac Arthur throw thl Important light on tho subject: It is a fact comparatively unknown that Humanism is responsible for Afrl can slavery; and this is a truth that ought to be proclaimed. In 1412theI'or tufruoso, under Prince Henry, captured some Moors on the Atlantic coast of Africa. These were afterwards ex changed for negroes and a quantity of gold dust, and soon after some slave ships were built, and some negro slaves were' brought from Spain. Hut the vast territory known as the kingdoms of Benin, of Dahomey and of Yoruba was later visited, and these kingdoms through the years gave more people into American slavery than any other part of Africa. These negro empires once wero intelligent and powerful; they had a social state and a political government of an orderly people. In 1483 Alfonse de Aviro, a Portuguese, discovered Benin, and established set tlements of Portuguese. When he re turned from tho coast to Portugal an ambassador from the negro king of Benin went with him, asking for chris tian missionaries for his people. Fer nando Po was sunt to the Gulf of Benin, and he ascended the river of the same name to Gaton, and there lo.ated a Portuguese colony and soon established tho Horn an church. Men with the spirit of the Jesuits of a later day fol lowed him, and at once had the king partly under their control. The king offered to turn over all his subjects to the Roman church, provided the priests would give him a white wife; and their part of the contract these priests under took to perform. A strong appeal was made to various sisterhoods to furnish a white wife for the negro king in order to lead him and his people into the Roman church, and one Bister finally agreed to accept the hand of the swarthy ruler. Her name Is not known, but surely she ought to have been canonized. The missionaries worked with a will, but sickness and death swept away the Portuguese as with the fiery breath of lightning. But they established the slave trade. Soon, however, in the minds of these untu tored savages there was some contra diction between a christian church and a slave-pen under one management. The Inhuman treatment given to the people led them to doubt the sincerity of the missionaries, and It is stated that today there Is no trace of the Roman church In that country; but itwas there long enough to sow the seeus of ono of the most gigantic evils the world has ever known. It laid the foundation of the slave trade, whose cruelties were so terrible that one's heart grows sick as he reads of them In the May number of the Century Magazine. The Roman church in this instance, as later through the instrumentality of Columbus, showed an astounding alacrity to seize innocent savages and to subject them to inhuman slavery. The slave trade, having been established by the Roman Catholic missionaries, was followed up by the i atives themselves. They left their fish-nets, their cattle, their fields and their villages, and went forth to battle against their weaker neighbors; and their prisoners of war they sold to slave dealers for rum and tobacco. They became thieves and murderers in order to secure slaves for this satanlc market. This was the real beginning of African slavery; this was the first enduring contact of the Roman church with this dehumanizing crime. What was the last semi-official rela tion of this church to slavery? The years passed by; the slaves groaned and died in bondage. Chief Justice Marshall died In 1835, and the president appointed Roger Brooke Taney as his successor; and a year later the nomi nation was confirmed in the senate. In 1857 the Dred Scott case was decided. In that decision Judge Taney affirmed that the patriots of the revolution and their progenitors regarded the negro race as so far inferior that they had no rights which the white men were bound to respect. This was his interpretation of the opinion of the fathers; it was, doubtless, especially the expression of his own conviction and desire. Presi dent Buchanan knew the decision be fore it was promulgated, and he shaped his inaugural address, delivered March 16, 1857, accordingly. He believed that this decision would speedily and finally settle the whole question of slavery. He was a prophet, for this decision led, In no small part, to the civil war, and then God settled the question by the arbitration of the sword. Judge Taney was a loyal son of the Roman church; that church sowed the seeds of African slavery, and after the lapse of hundreds of years, in the person of this judge, it erased the last trace of manhood, and shattered, apparently, the last hope of freedom on the despised and hated negro. Later, that church capped the climax of her cruelty to the slave and her crime against humanity by the conspicuous part taken by others of her r h U 1 r" n In tfin accou.lnntlAH ,.t x. liberator president, the ImmorUl Lin- - - " buu, 4w eye to these terrible facts, to thl long line of Infamy begun in Africa aud ended in America. .ut Worthy. According to the Roman Catholic papers, Archbishop Ryan says, "We do not consider the A. P. A. worthy of our notice." Let me tell Mr. Ryan the A. P. A. thinks the Roman Catholic church is worthy of their notice, and had been taken notice of her for several weeks, and Mr. Ryan will undoubtedly be aware of the fast of this notice by the A. P. A. As soon as some Paddy, let It bo Ryan, Murphy or O'Brien, shakes the bog-mud from his boots, be Rays to the supporters of American in stitutions, "We do not consider them worthy of our notice." There is a big difference between a mean man and a "hog." When Ryan was a "Paddy," the "Paddy" had red hair. The Satolll temjwrance baloon is "busted." Says Waterson to Pope Sa tolll: "IIelp me to close the Roman saloon." Says Gibbons: "It is rank folly. It will rack the church and that right soon." Go back to your whisky flock, old Roman druukards, you are all right yet; and you old bloated saloon keepers, sell all tho "tanglefoot" you please, the pagan Roman church will take your "backsheesh." Father James A. McFaul is also under the delusion that the United States be longs to the pope. Of course when he was made bishop and things were going his way, It was an easy stretch of the imagination. Jimmie was a nice boy. I am glad to see him succeel, but he has fallen into bad company. He may come to the conclusion some time that the pope has no right to assume the title of "infallibility." God Is a jealous God, and he will thrash the fellows who are wearing His overcoat, and Jimmie does not want to be fooled on this line. I tell you things are lively. The leaders of the Roman Catholic church may not fear the A. P. A. as much as they fear contention, such as has been witnessed in Patterson. They are try ing there to refute the statement of the A. P. A. that they have, no redress, but must submit llkecringingslaves." The A. P. A. is not absent by any means. Wrhen the old church begins to fall to pieces, it has its influence. I thank you very much, Mr. Thomp son, for the opportunity of saying a word. I will call again when It will be convenient for you, and say another word through your paper. GiMKL. The Arbitrator. Mr. Pecci. About forty years B. C. the Jews were in trouble and wa read the following: "The Romans interposed to settle the succession. Pompelus led Anstoblus and his sons to Rome, and gave the thrown and priesthood to his brother Hyrcanees, placing a Roman Catholic govonor by his side. The troubles,how ever s'.ill continued; and th9 Romans at last set the Idumean Antipater over Judca, whose son Herod, became king, a prince well known for his cruelty. On the death of Herod, the Romans divided his kingdom among his three sons. The whole was united under his grandson Aguppe, and after his death reduced to a Roman province." This was a plan that took several years to perfect but it worked like a charm, and that is the trick your men, the Jesuits, are trying to play at the present time. There are discords in the United States and many people are so blind they cannot see the undercur rent that causes these discords. There will be a demand for an arbitrator, some one to give some common sense advice, so a to help them out of the dfticulty. and you are the man you will expect them to select; and in time the prize will be expected to be in your hands to do with it as you please. You have some hounds here in this country which howls because the A. P. A's are proving they are of a foreign extraction; and I hope they will be made to continue to howl until they are taught to tend to their own business, until they can live here as American citizens and not parasites for a foreign despot, who wishes to show his fatherly care, such as the fox showed toward Little Red Riding Hood. I tell you, Pecci, you are a cayote. If you are not one personally, you are one officially. 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