Show CHINESE MAFIAS an alon of that the law ii Powe resi to suppress there is quite a striking analogy between the atall italian i an mafla mafia as it is r commonly understood and the chinese ton tong or organization of cutthroats cut tut throats murderers and high binders in talis city says gays the san francisco chronicle the 10 chief point of diRc difference rence is that tle the subdivisions of the mafia are arc not constant war with each oth other er while ahila the tongs tong s have deadly feuds feud continually on foot and generally select their victims from among 0 their rivals the question of these organizations of a assassins lassins sas sins in the heart of a civilized c community 1 y like ours has grown to bo be a n serious one we know in a general way that each tony tong is bound to together grether by oaths which its members dara dare not break breah that its purpose e is arii crime de of the deepest deepest dye that it sli shelters elters its members by every evary artifice which chic li chinese cunnin cunning 0 cr can devise and that it sotis at def defiance lauce the laws of I 1 the lie V land but here our knowledge on the sub subject j cat ends we do not know the motives which underlie the frequent murders nor do we wc seem to know how to break up these tongs or put an end to their care career r 01 of c crime r C the suggestion tp has been dwle and it is is 11 worth considering th that atan an indictment for criminal inal conspiracy would lie arrain against st an entire tong 0 or so society bety 1 whose members were wera I 1 known r or believed to be guilty of murder so far as we can cal know anything about the secret workings 0 of these organizations there i is mple ample reason to believe that the murders are committed af after ter fuu full discussion und and the murderer derer sz selected elected by ills his society e P ty and instructed a as to how and when lie he shall do ili hij deadly work if this be true there is bertal certainly i aly a cri cam ini inal conspiracy every one olle of 04 AA kllc c hi ic 1 11 d L mui u u loa J so society lck i li liable ble to i i m t a who losalo itta atta V ain TI I 1 cegret a e c r e t G c c i e ti e w would ou I 1 d d do 0 i aurb i u c 11 t to o 3 brcak r Q L 1 1 4 thorn them L up p As aa it i now they e Z 1 C VC rv little if ono one of their number ba babus pus I 1 to fall into tho clutches of the la v th 1 have plenty of assassins left and crl c no 1 to more or less makes no diff cliff orence ore V to HIP tong ton if 11 however tl the le whole tani were indicted i 41 di acte d the chin 0 se would 1 ic ul d 1 believe that th the C 0 ff L le rs of the luw law wore in earnest and it would work a change d in their system of getting gettin rid of those who were inimical to them |