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With the Francis Thompson miscellany is a speech by an unknown author read before the Professional Club [location unknown] ca. 1880, regarding Chinese immigrants in California. This speech asserts that most are from Canton, and gives census and other figures relating to Chinese in Calif.: land ownership, taxes, etc. The main focus of the speech is Chinese in California organizing themselves into democratic social service "clubs" (i.e. Tongs) which provide room, board, mediation, care of the sick, etc. Specific clubs listed: Yeung-Wo Co., Canton Co., Yan-Wo Co., Sze-Yap Co. and Ning Yeung Co. Pages from an unidentified work listing rules of the Yeung-Wo Co. are attached. The author mentions that most Chinese are not slaves. The speech ends with a summary of newspaper accounts of crimes by whites against Chinese, and compares abuses of the Chinese in California to abuses of Africans in the south. Hand written text has inserted between pages 6 and 7, pages of printed text concerning the Chinese in California (paginated as 153-158).
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