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THE "MUI-TSAI” QUESTION. Important Meeting of Chinese.
MONDAY, AUGUST 1. 1991.
PROTECTIVE SOCIETY TO BE FORMED The desirability of continuing the ancient Chinese custom of buying servant-girls to be used as domestics and whether there are any dafaat in the present system prejudicial to the servant-girls, formed the subject of a Chiness mass meeting held as the Twi Ping theatre on Saturday afternoon. The Hon. Me Lau Chu-pak and the Hon. Mr Bo Fook convened the meaning in consequenes of allegations at Unicase buy servant-girls with a view to wiling them to brothels to become prostitutes and rundry socurations of misconduct on the part of owners towards thean girls.
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kave yourselves soon and heard of the 'cass of the girl kept by con- to know of it and the girl herself is As tho viows which I am going to cubines, similar formalities have to bound to talk, and in no few cases give, cover almost every point raised se gene through. Cases have also has she taken upon herself to leave in the questions, I don't think that a bean, heard of, in which, the girls her mistress' hosan. Whenever need deal with them set by set, but, who were formally made concubines there is proof of crachty even in the 1 will mera or less keep to the order became favourites, which the wirea treatment of one's own children, the the senior concubines Chinese public seldom let things in which they have been put. doing so, I may have to repeat some wore relegated to second places rest without making a noise, “Cruel of the remarks I have already made, This is one of the instances of what ty when reported, iš inwestigated
the Chinese commonly call as slight and punished by the local authori in order to make matters clear.
In and
I. There are two distinct classes ing the wife to please the concubine, tisa. Many girls who had loarowi of people who buy young girls and and soch offence is punishable by hair-dressing, sewing and other use. keep them; ons class buy and keep law. No cases have ever come to fut crafts refused to be married anl servant-girls for domestic service light, in which the masters had a bargained with their mistresses, to and the other for prostitution. The free hand to do what they liked with remain in the service for one or two The Han. Me Lau Chu-pak tempt at interference will rather two should not be mixed up. Those their servant-girls.
years longer either with or without presided and supporting him were ads to than reduce the miseries who buy and keep young girls for The Chinese Government has pay and after the expiration of the the Hon. Mr He Fuck, Megara the power. A10 the noties con-doruestic service are of the respect-nat up to now, enacted any law to period, went to work outside or con- S.W. Tzo, Chuw Shou-sen, and
acetog clearly shows able class, who would not have their prohibit the system of "Mut Tsai" tinued in the employ of their mis- Chow Shu-kr. altaodanes of two ur iurea hundred that we are beru do a sense to good names stained by such a do-las the commencement of the Re-tressos at ilo samo rate of weges us Chinced, a proportion of what auswer veniam accusations against signation as "tortoise" (a nick name public, the Commissioner of Police she could earn outside. In short as well as to for brothel keepers, the daughters of Canton attempted to do so. Hoja servant-girl generally works off represented the Variolan local our good name labour gunds. There were also a vistigate dispassionately what is un- of many of whom are prostitutes, compelled most of those families her pledge in about eight or ten and subjected to extortions by tha' kept mut tani to give them up and years. While in the service of ber number of Chinese ladies pressat. doubledly au mportant question. There were many speakers, they Having 'deals generally with the official underlings and local tyrants, he had quite a large number of purchaser, in addition to her lood. majority of whom suverated the systems of slaves and servant-giris. without whose connivance and pro- them lodged in a building specially clothing, medical attendance and their trade cannot be maintained for the purpose. Before other sundry articles which a girl I come to meal with the questions: tretion, The hou. M: La Chapak, icfore you and those, suggested by carried on quietly, for the buying of long, however, he had to ask the requires, she participates in the tips the course of a long spreču, ta w bieli
honourable
young girls to be brought up for families concerned to take back the usually given to the servants by the colleague Deniz bett ibu ¤Namustively
Podock and by the Editor of the prostitution is punishable by law.girls because the latter, which in purchaser's friends and relatives. whole question, saudi-
The subject which you have been "Ply Pres" since the publication Toung girls sold for dacaustic service the case of the commission clamour. In not a few cases, a servant-girl of the notice convening this aree cannot be made to prostitute themed for the same kind of clothing and has accumulated fairly substantial Jut summe voortance in that it ating. The questions by Mr. Ho Fook selves without the consent of their par-food which they used to enjoy in) savings in this way. Besides sher ents and that of the girls them their furmer homes, and those who has ornaments given her by her end myself are c
selves. Their purchasers guilty of old enough either wanted him mistress for good conduct anıl the offence are able to paring ato procure for them suitable hum faithful service. Sometimes the re- heavy damage in aditition to the bands or begged to be allowed to go word takes the form, of punishment provided by law, and to out to hura for inusbands. For the release. the return of the girls to their par-younger ones, he had to employ 6 No well to do people would sell be "water". whɔ bay and keep girls for prostitu he was peatered with so great a Those, who do, have either been re- Lilas the Chinese Government
tion generally make special arrange variety of teqcesta by the girl, and duced to straitened circumstance 、 passed any law to abolish the praments with the girls parents and worried so often by the poor who or driven from place to place by
ice of keeping servant-girls?
ko
invited to come here to discusa, la
fects not only the rustom of be Cümese, but uuso var respectauliş as a me. I urge you to demonstrate fully and with perfect launess what you have personally seen and heard of in connection with the subject, so
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1. As it fact that servant-giris| are brous,hit up for prostatation
Are servant girls slaves!
5. Are servant girls kept for the sexual purposes of their masters,
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be publicly in who, when tired of them, sell them eats without compensation. Those amabs to look after them. In short.sher daughters to
doing
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are 34
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to
rule
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that matters vestigated
Within the past few months, ques tions halver been asked in the
3. Can the owners of the servant, pay higher prices for them and involunteered to hand their daughters want of work or by famine. In some House of Commons in England as to
some cases they pretend to buy lot over to him to be brought up that cases to sell a daughter in her ten- why in a British Colony like Hong.girls ill-treat them as they pleas adoption: hence there are different he became disgusted and gave the der age is to save her life, and at & Any other matters relating to forms of documents, namely, "ire attemps up as a hopeless job. It the same time to enable one to tile kong the buying and selling wi alares had not yet been forbulden, the questing of servant-girls.
sentation." "Perpetuity" and "Ad-
was also suggested by some reform over bad times, or to prevent the The questions suggested by the and why the servant girls were still
option."
ers that both the concubine and other children of the family Iro
<vatema should 2. & 3. There are, now, to slaves servant-girl
be being starred to death. And many to be cruelly treated by Editor of the "Daily Press" are:- allowed
1. What d you their own. The Hongkong Gov-!
mean by China, or if there are still a abolished but that suggestion was a daughter has been sold to defray has already replied in domestic sentiers (b) slavery:
few, they are not recognized as not adopted owing to its impracti-burial expenses and to pay the fines 2. Are the "uni tsal" purchased such; or is is rather because they cabilites.
and other lives made by the officials. detail contradicting these accusa
by their owners in the vast majority find it pays them better to remain A Girls old tu the wealthy For wich purposes, even many of tum - tions and the local English news
so obtained and of cases for philanthropic or for with their old owners as servants families
well younger sons have been sold. Soc papers lase
that they have not left. Girls have| of,
Dttle work; cannot be redeemed, because they published my views on the subject. [commercal reasons i
l the object of purchasing
never been consted as slaves. They of again being Now reports
the middle are bought for adoption; but girls circulated in London among differ-"mui Isal" is in order to obtain are generally bought very young class some have to work fairly hard, can, even if they have been resold
protection entclasses of people to the effect tha: cheap labour, what
People do not like to buy big girls and others have light work, though Girls are generally bought at ages we Chinese in Hongkong buy and against abuse do these children because they are dithcult
to cut not w well of as those sold to the ranging from 4 to 12 They canset bring servant els up for prostatu.enjoy?
trol and after a few years' service, wealthy families. It is more or less be expected to do beyond odds mai tion, and for the immoral purposes 4. Are pople who proüt by this they will have to be married of a question of luck. In the wealthy ends until they are between the Their actuai nosystem trustworthy judges of the When the girls are too young to families, the giris aut na companions/4ges of 10 and 12.
period of service is betweeen 12 and pleased with them, re then desirability or otherwise of eating after themselves, the masters to their mastery children, wait an
12 From 18 they begin to assert amnahs and, 10 and that frequently the girls are ing the system?
the their mistresses, go on erranda, doļ Des not the continuance of the wasters" wives and daughters have title J.
sewing when they have their rights and steps must neces badly tried by their own re whol
sarily be taken to marry them or hrash them. injure her by present estem constitute racial die fan dress alienu and keep them clean learned it, and attend to the wants other arrangements Inade with
The origina tranination of which the conveners until they become odd enough toļot female sisitors when required. Jarious erud means
The prices paid for a girl declared op work. Their parents are allowed to In the families of the middle class vary between $10.00 and $15.00 for tuts of these reports requested the the meeting are
come and see them periodically, and they have to help in cooking, *** fevery year of her age, ie., for a gill lovernment of England to order therrita 2 Government of Hongkong to enact
6. În reference to the question of when they come, they are, as a rule, ing, washing, cleansing and sweep years old $10.00 or 800.00 and so a law to prohibit the buying and treatment, is it expected that provided with board and lodging ing, carrying light loads, marketing
In the famine stricken districts keeping of servant-giris, as to in the wire offend in this respect will and in many cases paid their travel and such general work as an ordin the prices are lower.
Ing expenses by the girls' masters, ary man's own daughter would have famine in North China there wer pose restrictions on these families give eruienes at the meeting t
Houwarable Mr. Pollock's In the case of rich families, the to do, were thee with their parents:) so many boys and girls dying f whu peassess servant-girls by com
guia' parents nut infrequently and they are sure of their food and starvation that their parents beggel pelling them to report an'i rezister) questions affi-
1. Has the person who purchases obtain gifts el monry and old cloth-fclothing, while with their parents to have them taken off their hands their poissions, and by appointing
ametega absolute dominion over ing. One's own clansmen'«daughters they could not be sure of either, for practically nothing. But this uvers 13 impact periodically t
For example, has be the right are often taken over to be servant-The percentage of cases, já which was exceptional and we are pot girls.
onder her.
jol the masters
who, when
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to be his concubin,
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them.
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In the last
git Girls cannot be maried as the mistresses are exacting. bakdealing with that partcular inei. wines or concubines to men of the tempered or cruel hearted in treat-[dvic Should a girl die at what- sane clan. The administration of ing their serenatgirls is infinites-fever age after the sale, the purchaser well tread must pay her burial expenses, and įdomestic service is, in every case. mal. These
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There might have been a small to number of eners in which tim owners wantonly ill treated their servante girls. In these cases, we should take to to do arg work about hous
of any description whatever. in the bombs of the mistress. S5 uld their own daughters no better, if has no right to demand the refund measures to prevent their reopen
do anethingja han take a fancy to his servant-ther daughters were as naughty. of the purchase money or claita con- ply in short, rente. Even in case of andma's
whatever which he directs girl, he must first obtain his wife lazy and diarbedient as some of the petsation for whatever money spent and birds, this Europeans have formed a society to prevent their ill.
which will not bring either consent and then that of the girl servant-girls are. It is not of mare on her maintaiarnce up to the time From 4 to 12 the ime within the grasperself and her parents, before he occurrence that the parents of girls, of her death treatment. I am sure that for the
of the criminal law?
jcan make her a concubine. If who are naughty, disobedient and costs of a servant-girl's food, cloth. servant-girls gual treatment of
2. Are we work tais ir pently carries un secretly with the girl, al with bad habits are to wake theming, doctor's fees, and periodical brought up by themselves, the Chin-
a consenting back by paying back what theyboard and lodging and travelling ex ese will not hesitate to help in form purchased for monoraical reasons, though the latter is ing a society to entry out the object, hot, merely as umans of uht..ining Party, he will have to ausway to luxjevuld, or, failing that, to consent to penses for her parents have to be som included in her bill and sho does not wife, when areli she finds him out. It their bong transferred to The Chairman reared the history claras domestic service!
system is the same in the case of his ron other families who would not mind begin to be really useful until 13 to ASTHMA | of the system in Chins and proceni. CURE ing said:-The Chinese residents in onetimes used ca a dleak fot purenbines' servant-girls. There is yor having them. Except in cases, in When she is married sometime this Colony know that it is against jelasing girls for the purpose of their greater source of danger to a man which the girls have been sok in between 18 and 20, 60% to 73% of Over 40 years ago the the wishes of the heal authorities becoming prostitutes!
who has seduced his servant-girl. perpetuity and these are compara- the wedding price has to be spent rastified to the benefis to buy and sell women and girls ant 4. Cannot the purchaser of a mea If the girl is eventually warried out tively few in the province of Kwongen the outfit in addition to the tips he received from Himrods that there is no remedy for winst. tai resell her to somebody else! of his family, and her husband finds tung, whence the majority of the she has saved and the ornaments leg There have been cases in which If he wants to resell her, the parent that she is not chaste and if she Chinese in this Colony come) the given her, which must be handed a confession, then her old girls' parents are in constant toner over to her. A girl brought up in FAMED FOR SO YEARS the mothers conspired with the gojor other person who originally sold makes
will not only be regarded with them if the masters or mis one's family with one's children can BEWARE OF IUITATIOs betweens to sell their daughters and her the right to be consulted with master
after a time reported to the Aureference to aurh re-sale!
scora by his relatives and tresses are bound to let the giria he expected to know one's ways and on their periodiest babits better than a servant enga What are the rights of the par-friends and cursed by his wife or inform them
Treated as a thorities 23. hazing lost their
ged hy the month. nature of the work daughters. Then they went to the nt or other person who originally concubine. as the case may be, bui visits, of the families who bought them, and sub the muisti, as to redeeming will also be subjected to
black they are required to do, and how member of the family, a trained girl
one's valuable things. regained evatody of their such mustas, ie, buying her back mailing by the girl's husband and they are treated. The girls' parents can be relied upon to take care of (a) from the person to whom he parents. There have been caces, in can redeem them, whenever they permanency of at least 8 to 10 years The Popular Assembly opened daughters without paying back a
which men in high social positions can afford to do it, and they are in a trained girl's service. originally sold her, on the 21st ios, fifty delegates cent, while those families dared not
from the person to whom quietly made their servant girls often urged to do so by their case of a conscientious girl, she still being present. Prince A. Knupor- bring their case4 into court. Buying
she was re-gold?
their concubines without the know-daughters or to find another good keeps her relationship with the kin was elected president. The is therefore seldom done in Hong- social revolutionaries and peas-kong unless there can be producevi | The ahore Questions, if fully an-ledge and consent of their wives, family, if they feel that they are family in which she was brought up, ants were absent. The elections bona fide evidence of good faith. fszered, will. I think, enable each but in such cases the girls' parents ill-treated; to take them over, the after her marrige, thus keeping up have not yet been completed in do not propose to repeat verbation one of us to judze for himself. were bribed and separate establish parents have also some voice in the the ancient system of mutual help some districts.--
In and mutual responsibility, particul- The real status of a mai trai, menta provided for the girls nad marriages of their daughters, DIVORCE SUIT AT SHANGHAI,
6) Whether the mui tai system their children who were in after many cases in the past, when no arly in the case of childless folks. days, recognized as lega! heirs. | suitable husbands could be found for On the girl's part, when young, she ought to be continued
Other cases bate occurred, in which, their daughters they were asked to is safe from starvation and has the (a) at all, or (by in its present form, in ajalter having made the girls can take them back to marry them on chance of learning to sew and read cabines, the wives whose consent payment of a sum mutually agreed and sequire good habits, which, as British Colony. By way of e'rcidating the above had not previously been obtained upon. The masters generally check a poor man's daughter, she has not. estions, I will first give you the made things so tot for the men, say harsh treatment of the girls by When grown up, she has the chance press, the Native Bankers' As- I need scarcely say that it was views which I have both before and that they had to pay the girls large their wives or concubines, as they of marrying above her position as a Customs with a view to putling at, for, as you are aware, the quite recently gathered from various sums of money and send them care too much for their good names poor man's daughter and when stop to the importation of certain ystem is more or less a part of the sources, and also tell you what I secretly back to their parents, gir. to slow their women folk to go married into a good family, the hau light-weight ten and twenty cent question of economies in China hate peroually seen and heard of, ing them a free hand as to whether beyond certain limita Whenever a the means of benefiting ber pieces which are said to have Without improving the economic before asking you to express your they should bide their time or marry girl in badly treated, the other ser- and her brothers, if she como from Kwaugtung.
conditions of that country any at-own views and tell me what you other men as they might please. In wants and the neighbours are bound)
GENERAL NEWS.
THE VLADIVOSTOCK ASSEMBLY.
the
what I roll the reporters of tho
It is stated that the first suit English papers, for it would take up. has been filed in H.M. Supreme too magh of your time, nor do I
the same argumenta I. Court at Shangbai under the wish to we divorce rules which recently used to them. for people have already aid that this meeting was came into force.
called to defend the "aui tsai" According to the vernacular system.
odation has approached the
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