Ogden Daily Standard | 1909-11-06 | Page 4 | How the Chinese Settle Their Disputes

HOW THE CHINESE SETTLE TH THEIR EI R DISPUTES The Chronicle Sees In the criminal history or of the tho Chinese In California justl justification for Jor the exclusion act and says Tho Chinese have havo been in San Fran Francisco Franciseo cisco for man many years yet ct their moth meth metho o otis s of settling private feuds are as little amendable to the laws anti and cus cuis customs toms of California as they thoy ever eer were The latest ton tong murder In China Chinatown Chinatown town lacks none of the tho familiar accessories the stor story or of it has even Oen been long since dramatized A frisky daugh daughter ter of one clansman elopes with a member of the other tong long the losers want monetary compensation which is refused Then the tho cousin of oC the tho thoman theman man who the tho girl while passing through a dark alley aller Is ambushed b by some or of her friends who are arc conceal concealed ed cd in a vacant hallway hallwa Their ers do the rest an Innocent man manlies manlies lies dead In tho street antI and the tho mur murderers are arc hidden away not more ore from dread or of the police than of the tho bul bullets bullets lets of the tong thug they have hao embitter embittered ed cd For fort forty years this sort of thing has bas been goIng on One may clearly jUdge from these that is they lr Jy are In lie tho lives lIos of our ChInese den would happen to Sau Sati Francisco and California If the tho Chi uiese Iese lund had the strength or of great grent num I Ibers hers bers What chance would the lie law have Ime to enforce Its Hs processes pence peace peaceably ably among them Wh What lt certainty could there be of confining their feuds and crimes to theIr own raco Iaco As It ItIs itIs Is tho th San CI Chinese defy the tho law on occasIon If their strength were ten times what It Is the days dars of the vigilance committee might have to be 10 revived