White Infants Sold to China
ANOTHER villainous practice has been unearthed in San Francisco. It now appears that the Chinese of that city have for years been engaged in buying white infants and sending them to China. Most of the purchases made have been from the keepers of lying-in hospitals, the little waifs having been left there by their unnatural mothers. It can only be conjectured what is done with the children upon their arrival in the pagan land. It is generally supposed, however, that they are to be trained to vile practices. It seems strange that a human being should become so depraved as to be a party to such nefarious business. When we consider, too, that we are living in the boasted enlightenment of the nineteenth century, and in a land of Bibles and churches, it is stranger yet that a system of slavery, the most vile and degrading ever known, could be for a moment tolerated. Yet it is said that there is at present no statute that will touch this base crime.