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The average citizen might think that a measure of this 

 kind, advocated by all the great experts of the country, 

 would not be attacked. Again, it was so evidently a move- 

 ment in the interests of the marketmen themselves, that 

 it might be imagined that they would be sufficiently in- 

 telligent to appreciate it, but I was not one to indulge in 

 such a Utopian dream. They acted immediately and be- 

 gan to devise means to render the law ineffective. I ven- 

 ture to say there has not been a week since the passage 

 of the bill that efforts have not been made to break the 

 law, and it has been necessary for the friends of conser- 

 vation to have the men arrested and see that their nets 

 were destroyed, all of which was very much against the 

 desires of conservationists. 



In the spring of 1914 a society was organized in San 

 Francisco whose object was to enable the markets of San 

 Francisco and California in general, to place game on 

 sale. That this might be accomplished with dignity and 

 without creating any suspicion, it was given the euphon- 

 ious title of "The People's Fish and Game Protective 

 Association of California." I am reminded in this con- 

 nection, of the statement of an old friend and missionary 

 in San Francisco many years ago, when we were dis- 

 cussing the "ways that are dark and tricks that are vain" 

 of the heathen Chinese. He told me that to enable them 

 to purchase slaves and bring Chinese women into the 

 country and to sell them at high prices in San Francisco, 

 and to protect their criminals caught in carrying out 

 their nefarious projects, it was necessary for them to have 

 various organizations through which to work, and here 

 are some of the names which he gave me and which were 

 named by the most notorious highbinders in the San 

 Francisco region. Note, if you please, the high-sounding 

 names under which these desperadoes carried on their 

 affairs : 



"The Chamber of Far-Reaching Virtue, or the Kwong 

 Tack Tong" ; another the "Ping King Tong, or the Hall 

 of Maintained Justice"; still another conveying the idea 

 of lofty sentiments, was the "Po Shin She, or the Guild 



