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MONDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1929.
not been eradicated from our midst as, the proclamation published by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs in May Last cannot be regarded us an effective means of putting an end to the evil,
An Act of Amnesty,
It will be recalled that on April 14, 1922 a similar proclamation was promulgated and since then, after a lapse of more than seven years, the effect meant to bear upon this system has hardly been felt,
been prostitutes before so that to mui-tsai placed on the records they might easily get the licence, against cruelty so that they may whence they might manage to find | not be sold as slaves by the way out of their doom and so unscrupulous owners and the kid- recover their herty and indepen- fanppors who will find no more dence by marrying good husbands chance of practising their trude. while being prostitutos.
All this shows how easily these poor innocent women may be in- timidated into proferring to be come prostitutes rather than to be entrusted to the custody of Pa The compulsory registration of
Leung Kuk. Similarly, the cruel, heartless mistross can resort to not only mul tsai,but adopted
inasmuch 13 that pro- the same dodge to cowar the daughters as well, with the view to defeating a well-known subter mulgation provided no concrete ignorant, helpless mui-tsal into fuge of mari taai owners, was one or drastic measure to combat the submission because the latter look of the outstanding points discuss syetem with a view to its complete upon going into Po Leung Kuk as a charitable ed at the annual general meeting oradication. As to the proclama- as not so much of members and supporters of the tion of the Secretary for Chinese organisation but as a reformatory Anti-Mul Taal Society, held in the Affairs on May 16 last, it seems at for women criminala. auditorium of the Chinese first sight to have extonded a help- Y.M.C.A.. at Bridges Street, yes-Ing hand to the ill-treated muí-tgai terday afternoon.
as its sounds very much like an act of amnesty enacted by a Manchu emperor in the olden daya, bo-
Eradication Still Remote. For these three main reasons, very few oppressed mui-teai would go to make complaints to the Authorities, unless when they had
Registration Advantages.
4. Not only will no more in- nocent girls be bartered and sold, as slaves, but the present mui-teni can be either safely returned to their parents or set free at the age of eighteen when they can arn their living independently ne maid-servants. In this way the number of mui-tsai will be dim Inished year after year and I dare any in less than ten years this op- pressive system will die a natural death.
5. As cases of cruelty as well as uf kidnapping decrease, the Go- vernment will be able to save much trouble and expenditure in coping with them.
6. The expenditure will also be
Dr. S. C. Yeung, Chairman of the Society, presided over the meeting, other workers of the So- cause, according to this proclama been so cruelly treated that they saved for establishing a place of clety present being Mr. Ngan tian, all oppressed mui-tsai can re- Kwan-yue, Chinere Secretary), cover their entire freedom with found no other alternative of de- custody for emancipated mui-tsai. Mr. J. D. Bush English Seereinsters or mistresses a sum of reporting to the authorities. Re-atlvantages, we have every reason Keeping well in mind all these out being required to pay their liverance but to run the risk of tary), Dr. Chau. Wai-cheung, Mr.
cently the Secretary for Chinese to request the Government to en- money for redemption. Lam Woo, Rev. Li Kau-yan and But when we come to the cou Affairs has adopted quite drastic force the registration of mui-trai Mr. M. F. Tsui.
erete facts it will be seen that measures in some extreme cases of inasmuch as such a measure is the
by in ting cruelty
corporal their emancipation is not en very.
only means to do away with this punishment easy a matter after all. We may
00 ne oppressers. inhuman abuse once and for all. ask how many oppressed mul-trai But this will not have any dazerIt is indeed a great pity that there there have been who have effected rent effect on the callous oppressure still those who are in favour their emancipation since that proots, while the complete eradica of it, and their one orthodox pler is that these mui-tani will find no clamation was published. I dare tion of the odious mui-tsal system say there have been very few is still as remote as ever. Now, means of earning a living once cases. Is it because these mui-tadiet us venture to enumerate all the they are set free. do not wish to be set free as in drawbacks of the promulgation of a dependent human begins? Gormers proclamation forbidding the tainly not. Underlying it all, buying and selling of mutans without enforcing an Ordinance of registration.
The Chairman said: Ladies and Gentlemen.-It is in accordance with the regulations of the Society that we have this day convened the annual generni meeting, at which we are to give a resume of the business and work doge during the past year, to formulate plan and policy, and to elect new officers who will help in the furtherance of the worthy causes of our Society.
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I am heartily glad that this meeting is so well attended and with such enthusiasm evinced en your part, all of which goes to show that you are definitely taking the side of humanity and justice. Your very zeal will have heartoning effect on the committee of this Society. For my part, regret to say that I have done very little since you were kind enough to honourine by re-electing me to this chair at the last annual general meeting, though I have been trying my best to be equal to my office and your trust, but it is gratifying to say that with the able help and assiduous co- operation of the executive,.com mitten we have completeden mest successful year,
there are the following reasons:
1. The mui-tsai are nearly all illiterate, as most Chinese women have not the advantage of any education. Then how could these uneducated girls be expected to read newspapers in which there was only one day's publication of a proclamation that was of such important concern to their life's welfare?
1. No mai-tani will dare to claim liberty until they are ill-treated to such a degree as they can see for themselves that such a miserable life of slavery is no better than death.
2. Owners of mui-tsai will not be able to see that cruelty to these girls is a crime itself and is punishable by law, therefore, they are liable to continue committing the crime nonchalantly. the
3. In order to escape the con- sequences of the breach of this law, they are apt to sell the mui trai for prostitution.
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Such an argument. is really no stronger than that held by those who opposed Lincoln's cause of set- ting free the negro-slaves, who, but for that firm and liberal cham-. pion of humanity, would not have attained such a social status as they now hold in America.
Besides, they accuse us of being vain and over-zealous in rendering
service to
the community. But surely it is no vanity, to serve humanity and it is no excessive
zeal to further a cause that has so much to do with our social well being. For this reason, we have
refused to beat down our con- science and have stood by br
guns for fully eight years in com- bating a great evil in our midst.
2. They are all afraid of the con- sequences of reporting themselves and their grievances to authorities. In the proclamation it was clearly made known that "ni-tsai, who wished to be set free and returned to their parents
4. The crafty owners will
In Humanity's Cause.. must first report to the Secretary
O.F bonds,
We are all permanent residents for Chinese Affairs or to the deatroy the deeds nearest Police Station." To all specifying, their legal possession of the Colony, each having his pro- intents and purposes the authori- of the mui-tani, so that they can per work to do in his own walk ties seemed to have afforded safe still possess these girls as adopted of life. Far be it from our mind, protection to the oppressed mui- daughters instead of slave girls. therefore to create trouble. We isa, but on the other hand, they It is heard that mui-tsai will concentrate our attention on the found no little hindrance in this change hands without being problem of all problems, namely procedure as these innocent and legalised by possession deeds so as the mui-tsai and social evil. It is to escape legal consequences, the our heartfelt desire to fulfil the ignorant girls, who had been so used to cruelty and oppression that only requirement being an adver- duty of a citizen, to relieve the and tisement in newspapers specifying poor innocent girls of their misery
warn their the purchase of such and such and to
16 adopted daughters. against law-breaking. We cannot girls Should this be true, then this but hope that they will awaken to vicious system would have develop their duty to humanity and cease ed a new phase that is worth our
Among those who have rendered their invaluable service and as sistance we may mention Mr. J. D. Bush, our honorary English Secre. tary, to whom I am sure, you will join me, in proposing a vote of thanks for the profound interest he has taken in and the useful they help he has given to the welfare of the Society. Before the Hon Secretary reads his annual report, I wish to draw your kind attention to a most important function that the Society has yet to fulfil namely, the registration of all mui tasi în Hongkong with the Secretary for Chinese Affairs,
were disheartened frightened by the consequences of going to report to the author ties, would simply forsake, their intention and determination to re. cover their liberty and bear their lots with a patient shrug.
attention.
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from doing evil.
oppressors
As long as the mui-taci system exists, it will be a blot on fature A Mistaken Impression.
5. Failing the enforcement of generations. It remains for ins to urge you to help uphold a good "They are all afraid of being registration, the actual number of cause and spare no pains to take Government's Part.
committed to the custody of Pomui-tsat in the Colony is unavail- the part of great principles, to Leung Kuk, as it is often heard able and statistical records of their win over more members to the At the last annual general meet that mui tea, who have submitted increase or decrease are also im-Society, and if possible, to report ing, the resolution was passed their grievances to the Secretary possible.
every possible case of cruelty so that all mui teal in Hongkong for Chinese Affairs but failed
6. There is no time limit fixed that the enforcement of registra- should be registered with the Secreto obtain liberty pending the fina
for the complete emancipation of tion of mai-tsai may soon be an tary for Chinese Affairs and it decision of that authority, will be mui-tsat.
accomplished fact for the good of was also passed that the resolution committed to the custody of Po
humanity and justice. was entrusted to the Executive Leung Kuk. Under this mistaken Committee with a view to its impression, they have often re- eventual adoption as an ordinance frained from making complaints to by the Hongkong Government. the authorities. After much deliberation on the part of that committee and with repeated amendments, that re- solution was early this year trans mitted to the Hongkong Govern- ment through the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, with the result that a reply was obtained from the Secretary for Chinese Affairs to the effect that, His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, had kindly promised to forward our repre sentation to the Secretary of State for the Colonies for approval be fore its adoption and promulgation as an ordinance.
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7. Should the owners of mui-tani abide by this proclamation to set Mr. J. D. Bush, the Hon. English CAR TROUBLE? them all free, then the authorities Secretary, said. The Chairman lay would be at a loss to dispose of all touched on some valuable points in these girls as some of them might his speech this afternoon and I ena I learnt from my deceased find no parents to return to, some
pot think of a 'hetter figure to Blus- friend, the late Mr. Au Fung-chi, might have been kidnapped from
trate his undying devotion to the that while he served as a clerk in the interior and changed hands cause than to remind you of the the Secretariat for Chinese Affairs more than once, some might have
true knight of old, who was on his he often found innocent women been left by old masters to theath and honour to rescue and aave being kidnapped from the interior young ones, some might have been the oppressed lady. He feels that and forced into prostitution. While bought from parents who could no it is as much his duty to defend the they were.
cross-examined be longer be traced or located, while weak and redress the injured, as some might still be too young to it is of the savage and the brutal lead an independent life as maid
to usurp and uso others." I have servants. All these cases of such
no doubt that many of you at this an intricate nature and origin can easily, be dealt with by an Ormecting can readily visualise in dinanca of Registration.
your mind's eye the mountains of
stern On the other hand the enforce-difficulty surmounted and ment of the ordinance of registra trials met by the Chairman' during | tion will entail no drawbacks but the past eight years. six advantages, which follows:
fore being registered as licensed prostitutes with the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, they would all make more or less the same con- fession that they had already beer. prostitutes elsewhere, and would deny that they had been forced to get a licence. Of course, most of On May 16 the Secretary for them were found out after rigid Chinese Affairs published a pro-cross-examination and investiga- clamation forbidding the buying tion. and selling of mut trai. All this
are
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In return for all the Sisyphian task, he has reaped only invectives and hatred and branded, perhapa, ps a fomentor of trouble. I make mention of this fact by way of telling you how undeserved I am paid me. The credit rests entirely on him for devoting all his time and energy to this responsible task of emancipating the mui ti of the Colony.
(Continued on Page 10.)
Mr. Au would try to question 1. It will positively stop the buy- has shown that the Hongkong them after each case. why they had Ing and selling of mui-tsai and Government is liberal, enlightened not confessed that they had been secure an actual number of the and is always ready to sympathise forced to become prostitutes, and present ones to be set free and with and espouse the cause of in most cases they would plead | place them on official record, of the tribute that the Chairman has humanity. Though it is very clear that they had been under the mis 2. It will ensure the right of that this much-cursed, inhuman giving that they would be sent to owners to use mui-tsai until they mui trai system finda no the Po Leung Kuk if they had are emancipated so they have no countenance in such an enlight made the true confession. They fear of failing into pitfalls of ed government ag the Hongkong would add that they had been legal consequences. Government, yet the system has forced to confess that they had! 8. It will afford safe protection
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