t it was a serious matter that we had to
have the translating of our state documents done at that time by
representatives of the very nations we were contesting."

Unless I am misinformed, one of the men who did the translating at that
time is one of the Orientals who has since "suicided," and the reason for
that suicide you might as well try to fathom as to follow the windings of
a ferret in the dark. Certain royal clans of Japan will suicide on order
from their government for the good of their country.

"The trouble with these foolish raids on Chinatown for gambling," said an
educated Chinaman in Vancouver to me, "is that the city police have no
secret service among the Chinese, and they never raid the resorts that
need most to be cleaned out. They raid some little joint where the
Chinese boys are playing fan-tan for ten cents, when they do not raid
up-town gambling hells where white men play for hundreds of dollars. If
the police employed Chinese secret service, they could clean out every
vice resort in a week. Except in the segregated district, which is
white, there would not be any vice. They need Chinese police or men who
speak Chinese, and there would be no Chinese vice left in this town."

To go back to the matter of the poll tax and the system of indentured
slavery, the bosses mapped out every part of the city and province in
wage areas. Here, no wages under twenty-five dollars, to which green
hands were sent; here, a better quarter, no wages under forty dollars;
and so on up as high as sixty dollars for mill work and camp cooking.
About this time riots turned the searchlight on all matters Oriental; and
the boss system merged in straight industrial unionism. You still go to
a boss to get your gangs of workmen; but the boss is secretary of a
benevolent association; and if he takes any higher toll than an
employment agent's commission, the immigration department has never been
able to detect it. "I have no hesitation in saying," declared an
immigration official, "that for four years there has not been a case of
boss slavery that could be proved in the courts. There has not been a
case that could be proved in the courts of women and children being
brought in for evil purposes. Only merchants' wives, students, and that
class can come in. The other day an old fellow tried to bring a young
woman in. We suspected he had left an old wife in China; but we could
not prove it; so we charged him five hundred