Bailey. consul at HongKong. with the State Department. Under date of April 25. 1871. He says: The subject of Chinese emigration from this portte tlstiUnited States has claimed my careful thought anti patient investigation for the last fourmouths. with a view to got at the facts. and to understand it in its surroundings mii bearings. The whole subject is an anomaly. Rtoules that will do elsewhere in the world. when pplied in considering questions of immigration. have no appliation to Chinese immigration to the United States. Imnigrants to Aierica from other parts of the woold go of their own volition. free and volontary. :Emigration fiom China to all parts of the world is an organized business or trade. in which men of large capital a Ld bongs of great wealth engage as i regohltrtrallc. by which men are iooght and sold for so much per bead. precisely as a piece of inerhandiso is handlcd. at its nosricet value. The poor laborer of Europeo applies his own scanty means to get to the land of promise. or is assisted by his friends. charitable societies. or benevolent institutiousto reach a place wherehe hopes to have ]is toil properly requited. whoro his labor will inure to his own benefit. The cooly of China is bought ty the rich trader to serve lois purchaser at low wages for a series of years in a foreign tountry. under contractfor the faith fil perforiiaiice of which iin many iustaniCes he gives a mortgage on his wife and children. with a stipulation tiat atiths coi of his term of service lie is to be brouglit back to China byhis purchaser. his contract is sold by the dealer through his agents in the United States imd elseswhere at a large advance. and is a source of great profit to the capitalists .vhosltvetlOnicaue to buy and sell large numbers of men.
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Chinese immigrants are described as being bought and sold like merchandise, controlled by their purchasers, and bound by contracts that mortgage their families.