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pointed out, expected far bigger hand than $50,000 mong nearly seventy men; and were perhaps even lucky to secure this much from a Sunday, excursion steamer. They believed a very large eum waI UN board; In fact (as Mr. Wolfe confir ed) the opiam monopoly money. | nearer $550 000 than $50,000. The mosal is plain-the greater the pose ble boosy, the greater the extremes pirates will take., And now,' even the very day the Commission's report is published, pirates see found ready to brave the added risks resulting from the stricter precaution adopt ed since the "Bui An" coup and pla the capture of the "Fatshen," princip ally, if not solely, because the presence ot wealthy refugees makes the vessel |a richer prize: - -
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THE CHINA MAIL.
MUI TSAI BILL.
SYSTEM MUST Go.
- SECRETARY FOR ṚTATE'S EDICT.
SECOND READING DEBATE.
The pros and cons of the Mui Tesi Bill were argued at length at yester- day's masting of the Legislative Council when the second reading of the measure was considered. A fall report of the debate follows:
BRITISH UNOFFICIALS'
VIEWS.
HON. ME. FOLLOCK. -
After the motion for the second carrying reading had been moved and second- safer cd the Hon. Mr. H. E. Pollock,
K.O. ssid
deni
FAIDAY FEBRU, RY 9 19:3
general opposition raised by the Loropeuns in this Colony to com pulsory registration that the Un-1 official Members felt it incumbent apon them to nove in this Council that that Bill be withdrawn and that Bill, was withdrawn accord- ingly. In the face of such a pré- fcedent, we think that the Governi
ment cannot consistently insist in thia Bill on compulsory registru tion.
UNOFFICIALS. PROPOSALS. 3 Accordingly the course which the Unofficial Members would now nek the Government to adopt, is as followe
1. To go into Committee, of this ... Council forthwith.
2. To put clauses 4 and 5 of the
Bill into Tart. III,
..
and liberty, are not paid for their Jabour, and can be re-sold : at any time,d,
(8) There have beon inumerable cases of ill-treatment and.ne- glect of mul-tani: There, have ako been some cases of employ- ors seducing their unitsai, or alling them for immoral, pur poses. In all such case it is very difficult for these girls, owing to their ignorance to defy their employers..
(4) Child-drowning bears no rela
tionship to the mui-tsai system itias much as in child-drowning the victim is invariably one or two days old, while girls sold as mui-tsal have generally attain- ed the age of five or six years, an age at which they can he useful to their purchasers.
3. To transpoee the sections of
clause C of the Bill and to re-() number it as 4, and to insert two new clauses, to be nuih- bered 5 and 6, for the botter protection of mui-tsal. 4. To put the whole of clause 7 of
the Bill with the exception of (1) (a), into Part II.
5. To leaya 7 (1) (a) and clauses 8, 9 and 10 in Part III of the Bill.
6. To put clauses 11 to 15 in Part IT. of the Bill, subject to cor- 'tain amendments to clauses 12, 13 and 14, in the interests of the mui-teai..
7. To leave clause 16 in Part III.
of the Bill.
T
8. To pass. Part IV. as it is, sub- ject to a slight necessary conse. quential amendment at the beginning of clause 17.
9. To omit clause 19...
In asking Your Excellency to put| clauses and & into Fart III. of
view, of the time and trouble spent
(8)
The argument that the aboli- tion of the system would lead to the atoration of a large number of poor children can be met by the argument that when employers lose the services of their mutsai they would have to employ paid servant-girls, to take their place; and so the daughters of the poor instead of being sold as chattele, would becoine paiti servants.
Mui-tsai keeping is not charity. but,, on the contrary, tends to encourage selfish and mercen ary med to part with their children in order to enable themselves to be more self- indulgent.
To pass a law with the object of merely proventing- cruelty would mean the preservation of the in the
by neglecting the source of the di
*ease.
eral in seeking to justify the
pass- ing of that clause, says the system lends itself to abuse, and gravo abuse, in the hands of evil and unkorupulous persons." 'On this point I have ascertained that the Attorney-General meant to refer, in Now many people
addition to cruelty to a possible valuables think themselves
*** seduction of mui-tani by the em- travelling as onlinary Sunday
her being YOUR EXCELLENCY,As the Smior player or his family or trippers. They prefer to take the
Unofficial Member of the Legislative sold for immoral purposes.. risk thus entailed rather than apprise Council, I have been asked by my But, Sir, surely the proper way. the desperate that treasure is aboard British colleagues to address this to meet this latter evil is to put by having extra guards placed about Council on the subject of this Bill. prominently into the forefront of the ship. But since it is difficult-in What I am saying, therefore, must be Bill (as the Unofficial Members the East almost impossible, indeed be regarded as our joint views. The propose to do by amendment' in to keep the presence of valuables Senior Chinese Unofficial Member Committee) the fact that mui-tsai secres, is follows that every time will address the Council on behalf ore entitled to the same protection people carry treasure unbeknown to of himself and his Chinese Col-os are other young girls under the the authorities they are making the league. I should add that the provisions of the Women's and ahipa special mark for pirates. Siur'e Chinese Members of Council concur Girls' Protection Ordinance, 1897. this practice endangers the whole and support whit I am about to That Ordinance (the provisions of ship
should... bo made say, that we British Unofficial which, together with the fact that an offence and heavy penalties Members also concur in what the it applies to nuits, should be Hewenior Chinese Collicial Member Widely published by the Govern should be imposed over stringent the precautions the about to say on behalf of the ment deals in the minutest possible manner; and under very heavy Chinese Members, Commission's recommendations may,
We regret to find that a great penulties, including in many cases introduce, piracy can Dever
of misunderstanding has the punishment of flogging, with be wholly eliminated, the Com- gathered round this subject. The truffle in women and giris (sec.) mission itsel derating the restfui-tai systemu is neither so bene procuration of women and girls the evil is outside the water valent as the more extreme of its (sec. 4) defilement and procuring- the disorders in the neighbouring rain, nor, on the other hand, is it 5, 6 and U) receiving or harbouring by the Unofficial Members upon of the Colony. Consequently, with supporters have sought to main defilement of women and girls (sece, the Bill, we would urge that, in Chinese territories showing every so wholly wanting in good points girls for immoral purposes (secs. the consideration of this Bill they sign of continuing interminably, the as the opponents of the system 18 and 19) rape (sec. 21) and abduc are at least entitled to have their views on those clauses and on the necessity for taking very preoration would have as believe, and we are tion (recs. 4 to 27).
And, whilst we are on the ques registration clauses laid before the against piracy becomes acube. There content to accept the following Lore, when the Commission's recom language of the Attomey-General, tion of publication, we would ex- Secretary of State for the Colonies, mendations came before the Legislain moving the first reading of this. Press the hope that means will be before the solid weight of the Off tive Council for enactment it is to be Bill-Muny of the min-tai-1 taken by the Government to adver- cial Vote is brought to bear in think the majority are contented time, in the interests of mui-tsai, opposition to the unanimous viewe hoped that Mr. Wolfo's important with their lot and are fairly well not only the above provisions of the of the Unofficial Members. We do suggestion will receive the attention off. We, therefore, start with a women and girls, protection ordin- not ask for any further or longer it deserves. The strength of the system which, viewed as a whole, ance, but also the provisions of the delay than is necessary for the chain lies in its weakest link. The has not worked badly, which bus present Bill, pe they cannot be too above purpose, and in the meantime existing regulation requires that then practised in China for several widely known
(in fact, this very day) the other Captain Superintendent of Police thousands of years right up to the: RIGHTS OF MUITSAI
provisions of this Bill, which con- shall be notified when treasure is be-present time, and which has its
now consider whether tains all its vital principles will be (10) ing catribd. Unless neglect is made root in a superfluity of daughtere clause of the Bill is desimble., placed on the statute book of this a punishable offende, that link in the due to the ancestor worship impos- As regards this point, the Attor. Colony. There are two vital prin- pirasy prevention stain will be very ed on a man's oldest son as a filial ney tieneral has pointed out that ciples in this Bill and the Unoffi weak indeed,
duty (medical science not yet lay there is the danger that in attack cial Members of Council accept ing discovered any means whereby ing, the practice of employing mu both of them. The first is the a inrent can select the sex of the tsni, we may increase the risks of abolition of the muitai system child whom it is desired to bring neglect, kidnapping and prostitu- and this is effected by clause of The arguments of the other side into the world.) **
finn. We, therefore consider that the Bill, which gives the death for the withdmwal of the Bill are, clanse 4 is undesirable."
blow to the mui-tea- system as roughly, au follows :--- Clause 4 of the Bill is also wholly hitherto recognized and practised (1) Multani are not slaves aruf unnecessary, in view of the langu
by Chiness.custom...
have never been so regarled in China either by law or by ens tom. When arqui-tsai ́ ́i married, she is allowed to look upon the home of her former: employer as her own home, End in treated se a member of the family.
LOGAL AND GENERAL.
a
Indian guards. Obviously censurr
the
oficera Master, and
The Peak Tramway Co. Ltd, in-announcea in an advertisement that was inevitablo-Commision'e enticating marine mishaps are the service will besuspended after the traditionally revers and the piracy 10 pm., car to-morrow until the regulations, however ananitabi, had am, car on Monday. clearly not been observed. Manifest also was it that these regulations Mr. and Mrs. H. Humphreys would have to be entirely scrapped turund to the Colony yesterday by the
outs framed. The con.. "Empress of Australia" after sad new Alicting demanda
of the pissy long sheenes in England. Mr. J. H mulations, the fire regulations. Taggart also returned from a brief and the Board of Trade regulations trip to Shanghai, made this imperative. Separate de- |** fense mesaures for each ship,, wera
A time-table of bus service to obviously required, sad will now the Peak during the week end, is doubtless be found in the Commis-published in an advertisement of the sion's proposed "citadel of defence," Hongkong Hotel Co., Ltd., appearing fortified and garrisoned, the offi ers in the New Advertisements armed and the guards specially train-columns of this issue. ed men.
Izet s
3
The second principle is the pro vision for good treatment of mui-
of the Bill.
i This is dealt with by clause
(0)
unlue inconvenience and Registration should not cause trouble. At present, schools, companies, births and deaths, and medical practitioners bave To be registered, and no incon- enience has been experienced by the parties concerned. The system was abolished by law in China towards the end of the Manchu regime, and again at the beginning of the Republic; and if such could ha.. done in so vast a country as China; there is no reason why it should not be done in this small Colony.
Even if there were some flaws in the draft Bill, the proper way would be to helpt them put in order to have them re- medied, instead of asking that the whale Bill be withdrawn.
THE OTHER SIDE.
KVILS 'GĦOSBLY KXAGGERATED.
Whilst, however, we regret to find that the evils of the working of the system have been, grossly. exaggerated to the detriment of the clause 2 of the Bill which good name of this Colony, we agree system of employment of mui-tani, completely abolishes the whole with all the provisions for the pro- as defined by Chinese custom, and All of the amendments which the tection of mni-tsal from ill-treat entirely eliminates any vestige of Unofficial Meinbers will move in re-ment which are contained on the proprietorship or quasi proprietor Committes on this Bill tre framed
present Government, Bill, and are proped, na will presently appear of the atter han engaged the most strengthening the above two vital ship in the employer. This aspect for the purpose of furthering, and to make these provisions against earnest and anxious attention of er ty even stronger that they are the Unofficial, Members of Council, principles of the Bill and for the at present.
Clause 2 of the Bill is all-import-arrived at the conclusion that it is
with the result, that they have Protection of mui-tsai. ant, and may justly be regarded as the charter of freedom of the mui- desirable to alter the language of tani, for it, shatters at che blow the clauses 12, 13 and 14 of the Bill in mai-tani system, as defined by Committee so as to make it abund Chinese custom, and as it hasantly clear that any mui-tes of any The Hon. Mr. Chou Shou-son (9) Mui-tsai are not always sold: existed for some thousands of years, age has the rights referred to jo The "certain persons" referred to those three sections.
have
NEW CLAUSES SUGGESTED,
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said:
CHINESE VIEWS.
HON. MR. CHOW SHOU-SON
SIR, The Honourable. Senior
(2) The lot of the majority of the muista, in Hongkong is for better than that of the children of poor families in the interior of Ching, the former being much better fed and clothed. Their parents, if they so wish, are allowed to see them at-re- gular intervals.
some poor people, having too. many children and being un- able to support them all, may present some to well-to-do families in order to enable
Y
them to be properly brought
(4) It can truthfully be said that about ninety or ever ninety- five per cent, of the mui-tsii in Hongkong, are well-treated.
Those employers who over- work or otherwise ill-treat their
in that clause as the persons who For the protection of the mai-tsai thofficial, Member having expressed
erroneously supposed that from evil-disposed persone, it is the joint views of all the Unomaisia, } The report does not favour making The forthcoming manisge is the payment of money in return for necessary to insert in clause 19 I would, ordinarily, have contented wireless obligatory for the river or announced of hire. Nag of the transfer of a female child con- some words similar in effect to this, myself with merely endorsing his ocean steamers, owing to the probibi. No. 32, Morrison Hill Road, to Mian fers certain rights over her are the at the end of clause 13 of the now remarks; but in this case my Chi-up, and married off tive cost. That decision will doubt- Mabel Edus Musto, of No. 28, three or four hundred millions of and it is therefore proposed to move nese colleague and I have promised se revive much controversy and Marrison Hill Bead, eldar daughter Chinese who compose the inhabit in Committe the insertion between both the supporters and opponents the question i Aurs to follow of Mr. Maso of the Eastern. Asbestos ants of China.
the word may and the word of the Bill to repeat bere their res whether costly attacks might not Co., Ltd.
"leave" of the following-words, make wireless the chesper choice.
Clause 6 which provides for the namely with the sanction of Pective arguments, and to express However, three factors govern the
Captain Panlove of the China good treatment of mani-tsai is, ne the Secretary for Chinese Affairs," our own views on this important subject which so intimately con catered far awayver te mers als Navigation &.. "Luchow reports fur eit goog, good, but it does not and toph at the end of slag new cerns the Chinese, I would there. mai-test would not be deterred sion's recommendations, given effect, bal to Amoy be met with a strong of protecting mai-tsai from grose such sanction, as the case may be, concerned anyway. The Commis- that during the voyage from Shang go far enough, and we shall sng-paragraph at the end of clause 19 fore of the indulgence of this
gest, in Committee, with the view **In granting or withholding Honourable Council for so doing. will appreciably reduce the risk of monoon and picked up six survivors cruelly the insertion of the follow the Secretary for Chinese Affair first time, meetings have been held Since the Bill was read for the piracy. Without patrols able to woeke from the crew of a Changohor janking clanses :- prompt response to distress signals which had been wrecked by the gale. "In every prosecution for over-ests and welface of the mui-teni.
shall pay regard solely to the inter by various sections of the Chinese wireless in largely valueless. With The maa were landed at Amoy.
Community to discuss itby the The China Mail, petrols and these the report suggests
work or ill-treatment of a mui- OBJECTIONS TO REGISTRATION Chinese General Chamber of Com tasi medical evidence shall. bê -present signals will be quite
Clauses 4 and 5 of the Bill are merce, by the Raifong at the Tung adequate Regarding police search that they have received a cabló físi
given before the Magistrate try also in our opinion, objectionable Wah Hospital, by thirteen Chinese ing, steam hoses, and other their. Shanghai Agents, advising the
ing the case as to the injuries because, for their effective working, Commercial Unions, the Anti-the sense of discrimination/ received by such' mui-tsai,, and the report largely confirma
following drelaration of Dividende expectations. Likewise it merely affirma what ovRY-
Shangbai Loan & Investment Co., one knows when it declares China Ltd, Langkats, have declared a disorders the root of the whole evil Engineering & Shipbuilding Co., Lt
Dividend of Th. 0.25 per share. Now Thus the report, taken generally, fol lows obvious lines with caer Import Dividend of Tis. 0.60 per share: ant exception. Beyond midly obser Nett Profit, Tis. 266,390, 35 ving (almost incidentally tool) that money changer's shop an additional guards should be obtained Aberdeen was entered by three man from the Police Department when it armed with revolvers yesterday even
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the magistrate shall find whether they appear to involve some system Muiteal Society, the YMCA and auch ill-treatment amounted, in or registration. In regard to the YWCA and by the Chinese his opinion, to gross cruelty or question of objections to Regista Labour Guilds. Views on the med tion, we desire to associate our sure have; also been enunoisted in
not.
In the event of such Magis-selves entirely with the remarks both the English and Chinese frate finding, that much ill-treat which will be made presently by Press. As representatives of the ment amounts to gross cruelty, the Benior Chinese Member. We Chinese Community, the Honour the offender shall not be given feel that it is very easy and simple able Mr. Ng and I welcomed such the option of paying a fine but for Britons both here and my Eng views which have helped us të aboll be sentenced by the Magis land; and also for the numerous small extent in urriving at our own trate to imprisonment for a term Chinese in this Colony who, do not conclusions. The views expressed employ, monitaito adopt a philo have resolved themselves into, two not exceeding one year. Y In our view the strict enforce sophis attitude on such matters, broad divisions one in support
"SUI AN" REPORT.
Mostly the "Sui An" Commis sion's findings confirm forecasts made long ago. From the first it was obvious the owners must be exonerat. ed. When the "Sai An" became
is expected treasure will be carried, ing when $100 in change that was overdie they made every endeavour the report completely ignare being handed to oustomer and ment of each charge against seeing that much registration can the Bill almost in its with
locate her. They could scarcely the vital question of special between two and three hundred have been expected to guess that the motive. Tele omission is the dollars from the till were taken The missing veral wan miles away near more surprising because apart from robbers made of in the direction of
Pw the China Mai's repeated emphasis, Shamel until thorough search had the Captais Superintendent of Police Wanchai. Gap Read, firing several show she was not among the islands himself not less, very strongly urged between Hongkong, addulacao delay. the necessity, for now regulation ed through (847) a'macalnery break, making it an offence for parzone to down. Likewise it soon became clear, inour "the very grave" risk of taking that the personal condnet of the
to
·
•Masture and Officers during the
had bess above reproach. Taken
utterly by surprise jk would
sniaids for them to
kkst the ComDÍ
Buthoriting
shots at a crowd of partners,
Another robbery hey beg
the
from:
grora cruelty to mhi-tsai is what not possibly give them personally certain amendments design to areally required, and a few ones the slighest inconvenience.
Atreng
the ather it
thought gnising that mui-teni systəm
of imprisonment with hard labour In this connection we are forcibly. tion to it an it how stands
landlord, who wrote to the Land- has its evils. punishment for, grosa cruelty reminded of the old story of the Irish tomu-tami, would in our opinion, Losque as follows: do more to protect them than anyIf you think that amount of legislation
to deal with cars of to frighten me parents to heir own chil-
one would
lly look for the laws
by registration, and the only remedy would seem to ba ini. prisonment; without the option of a fine in case of grOSS cruelty If there are cases of ill-treatment of mulai ther are also cases of ill-treatment. of one's own children: a critel - Chearted person, în a rage loses
Ill-treatment of children is not the fault of a system, but of"," individeole. The illustration (that to take measure merely for
preventing cruelty to mai-trai without abolishing the system. resembles leaving the poison in the systeur, is not as convinc2 ing as the one, that to get rid * of a boil on the head one does
not cut off the head:
Before the Bill with its pre
Trksome prʊ
some people may
i-taxi to the
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