Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1886-02-10
TELEGRAPHIC.
Gratifying Distress Among
the Chinese.
BoYCoTTING HAVING EFFECT.
The Olympia Chinese Ordered to
Leave at Onee-JOhn's Day Of
Doom Arrived.

Special 10 the Herald bv Assocfdted Press.
BAN FRAscIsoo. February IA visit
TO Chinatown shows most depressed
condition of affairs among its inhabitants.
Never was there less apparent business
doing at the various stores than now.
The theatre, despite the fact that the
New Year festivities have not yet come
To close, was not well patronized. The
recent heavy influx of boycotted Chinese
from outside sections, driven here by the
united action Of the white population, is
adding daily to the pagans hard times.
The different companies have their hands
full in providing even the most meagre
food for the hungry hordes, and as to
sleeping accommodations, numerous ar
rests for violations of tie cubic air or
diuance tell their own tale.
A we'll posted white resident OF the
Chinese quarter said that during the
twenty four years he had lived there he
had never before seen such quiet new
year among the Chinese or time when
they had less money to spend than now.
lie said that the distress now prevailing
among them from lack OF employment
was something frightful aud that the
arrival of even tw enty more idle men to
be provided for was Immediately felt by
those already here. What the Chinese
who are coming on the Queen of the
Pacific from Seattle would do or how
they would live II they are without
means. was puzzle. Ii was certain
that this continual influx of bankrupt
Chinese from the country was driving
the companies to their wits ends. All
Hung, n well known aud well educated
Chinaman, said that as yet a great ma
jority of the Chinese in San Francisco
nad not heard Of the latest phaze taken
by the Seattle trouble All Hung reads
and talks English fluently and Is a
reader OF the San Francisco papers and
several Eastern dailies. In answer to
q question as to what effect
the riot at Seattle would have
upon the Chinese here, All Hung said
"rhe Chinese have come to the conclu-
sion that the present movement is differ
ent from the preceding ones, and that 1t
will prove to be permanent one. We
bought some years ago that all opposi-
ton to the Chinese came from the Irish,
but we have been convinced from
subsequent events that the whole
people, Americans and all others,
UPON the Pacific Coast ale earn.
est in their desire not only to re-
strict them from coming to this country
but to expel those already here. 1t
seems to me our races are 80 very differ
emily constituted that assimilation is as
impossible as the amalgamation of oil
aud water. II the whites massacre the
Chinese here our people at home would
hear of it, and it would naturally
result in popular uprisings at
home for the slaughter of foreigners OF
all nationalities. The end of the BUSH
ness will be, think, that the existing
treaties between the two countries will
be abrogated aud limit of term Of
years fixed for the return of the Chinese
IN America to their own country. In a
couple OF months the new Chiaese Min.
lister, Chung Yum Pan, will be sent to
Washington. accompanied by another
prominent Chinaman as assistant, and
then, l think, important negotiations
will be set on foot.