Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-09-28

ON copy OF TINS puDllcdtlou 10 hast0ru
friends. The illustrations are acknowledged to
be the best ever Issued 10 this city.
Learning BY Experience.
The city Of New York is waking up to
the evil Of Chinese colony, which is
rapidly growing to great proportions in
its midst. Conservative papers, such as
the Epsning Post, are coming out in anti
Chinese articles which would do credit
TO California newspapers. The fact is,
the New York landlords pocket has
been touched, and the New York land
lords pocket is one of those sensitive
things that has an immense power OF
feeling and is sweePingly influential
throughout the great American
metropolis.
1t seems that property owners in that
part Of the city which the Chinese have
invaded are undergoing the sad expert.
ence of property holders in San Fran
cisco, whose property was situated in
what is now known az Chinatown. AT
one time property on Jackson, Washing
ton, Clay, Sacramento, Dupont and
Stockton streets was the most valuable
property in the city. Now it is almost
worthless. The Chinese as they spread
out drove away the white tenants. Then
they dictated to landlords the rents they
should charge. The landlords had to
suecumb, for they were completely at
the mercy Of the Mongolians. The logic
Of foothold gained BY the Chinese in
any city is to spread and soon
subiugate the whole vicinity to
their injurious presence. That pro-
cess is now going on in Los Angeles
At one tims conhasd to Niger Alley,
they are spreading in sll directions, With
the plaza as their pivotal center. Prop
erty in the vicinity Of the plaza, which a
few years ago was the best in the city, is
now unrsntable. The Pico House was
compelled to close, and no one seems to
want it. OF course the Chinese are bid
ing their time, ready to take it at their
own terms when the neighborhood is
sufficiently infected with the Chinese
walasro. We recollecs back in the
sixties that An entsrprising German
built q very nae hotel for that day in
6an Francisco, at the corner Of Jackson
and Dupont streets. 1t was called the
Globs, and run as first class hotel for q
while, but soon fell before the blasting
march of the Chinese. Unless some
thing arises to remove the Chinese quar-
ter in this city, the Pico House will meet
the same fate.
New Yorxers are beginning to realize
how Chinese quarter spreads. The
Nongolians Hrst located in Mott street,
just off the Bowsry. Steadily they have
gone on, taking possession of that street
block after block. Then they spread
outinto Mulberry street and subjugated all
the lateral streets. Up to recently, how
ever, their march has been slow and in
eidious; bat within the past few month 3
the increase of the Chinese population
has eclipsed anything it has done
in the past, aud Now York China.
town is spreading like pestilence
The restriction law seems to have made
that city the center to which great pro-
portion Of the Chinese, smugglsd into the
country in defiance of that law, are at
tracsed. They are landing them in large
numbers from Cuba as Spanish citizens
and the customs authorities are imbecile
enough to permit them to enter on this
transparent trick. All along the boundary
line OF Canada they are coming in by the
Canadian railway. They are brought
from Victoria, where they arrive in great
numbers on the steamers run between
China and that port by the railway COM
pany. These arrivals are rapidly filling
up Gotham's Chinatown, and the Six
Companies are looking around for fresh
streets to conquer. They have boycotsed
. number of landlords who have refused
to permit the Chinese TO name
their rents, and the District Attorney il
reading up the law to see If be can make
. case for the courts out of it. The New
York Post, which has in the past been
bitter in its denunciations Of the opposi.
ton to Chinese ia California, begins tc
see how it 10 itself, and sends out the fol.
lowing note Of alarm in late issue:
The Chinese have secured . foothold
in New York. If it becomes frmer, il
the increase in the Chinese population
continues at the ratio of Is per cent AZ il
has in the past year, despite the restric.
ton act, what will be the effect on prop
erty values? That is question tina,
ought to trouble landlords. Should the
Cinnamon greatly increase, and should
they pursue, with regard to other pr ,p.
erty, tactics similar TO those adopted in
the boycott case, the landlords would be
entirely at their mercy. In fact, they
are at their mercy now 30 far ae Mott
street is concerned.
This Is but the beginning Of tbs end.
If the restriction law cannot be made
TO restrict, tia future trend Of the bulk
Of Chinese immigration will be to the
largo Eastern cities. New York, Boston,
Philadelphia, Chicago, St. Louis. ETC.,
will have their Cbinatowns. Property
values will be gradually undermined in
ths bsst paris of ~ those cities. and
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