Chinese Immigration and Oregon Prohibition
The law prohibits Chinese workmen from coming into this country, yet the anxiety to come here is evidenced from the fact that they have been smuggled across the border from Mexico to El Paso, and from there shipped in nailed-up boxes to New York, and twelve were found dead when they reached New York. A Chinese telegram from New York states: "Twelve boxes has received all right, but all qui hin, which means 'gone to heaven.'" Not long ago some who had been put aboard somewhere in Canada were found frozen to death in a refrigerator car. The returns from the Oregon election, recently held, indicate that twenty-one counties have voted prohibition.