Los Angeles herald., 1891-02-12
rHuRssDAY. FEBRUARv 1s. 1891.
CHEAP KALsoMINING GREAT EVILS.

CHEAP KALSOMINING-G EVILS.
The board of police commissioners
yesterday INDUCED in little cheap
whitewashing of Chief of Police Glass,
ON motion OF Commissioner Lewis. The
impulse on the part of any official body
is strong to say that everything is right
AZ to all matters as to which it has super
visory control.
But the police board OF Los Angeles is
by no means the first, nor will it be the
Last, official body which has allowed its
impulse to compliment itself to lead it to
whitewash its employee. Chief Glass
has received coat of skalsomining
What it shall prove to be worth depends
ON the judgment of his fellow citizens,
founded on developments. The opinion
which the people of Los Angeles shall
form both OF the police commission and
of Chief Glass will depend on the facts.
1t is not a long time since the Times,
under the administration of Chief
Burns, was filed with cacophonous
howls about the prevalence of gamb-
ling both in Chinatown and every
where else in Los Angeles. That puis-
SAINT journal OF the ultra moral people saw
in its every issue stream of bribes,
amounting to thousands OF dollars
menthly, percolating from the dives and
Chinese lotteries into the office of the
chief of police, which in that instance
was occupied by gentleman who did
not affiliate with the Times. That jour
nal even went to the extent, in one in
stance, OF saying that an honest man
could not walk the streets OF this city.
It has been mild, to the extent OF
rivaling the notes of the cooling dove,
ever since its special pet, Chief Glass,
has occupied the position Of chief of
police. And why? Has there. been any
sensible amelioration OF the moral con-
dition OF Los Angeles? Has there been
any diminution of the rampant vice
which has fourished here?
by no me ans.
The explanation of the whole riddle
is that the Times has got its man, Mr..
Tom Lewis, for commissioner Of police,
and its preference, J. M. Glass, for chief
of police.
Simply that, and nothing more.
As matter of fact, under the present
~'whited sepulchre' administration of
the police Office, Los Angeles is far wick
eder than it was at any time for years
past. Under Chief Burns, with J. M.
Glass oco;st;pr nc Jotaot;va tho borc;l,lo
depravity now witnessed on Alameda
street was arrested.
This is matter of our police history.
Today this horrible form of vice,
which is far more offensive than the or
dinary development of the social evil,
and which is largely an unnamable va
Tiety Of that evil, is more rampant and
audacious than at any time in the his
tory of this municipality. 1t faunts it
self night and day; and it has proved
TO be such source of lucrative revenue
that we are informed that a movement
is in progress to erect new buildings for
the accommodation of the poor creatures
who are used to provide revenues for the
basest deve lopment OF mankind.
This is fact. No whitewashing ex-
pedient OF police board can be effectual
in blotting it out.
Have these people, all at once, quit
subsidizing the powers that be? Having
been habituated so long to the use of
the nimble dollar in purchasing silence
and exemption, have they, all at once,
been allowed to bank theirow earnings.
all the time enjoying more immunity
than of old?
This question is surely pertinent.
To cap the climax, there are said to
be, on what the HERALD regards as re-
liable information, sixty-four private
poker games running in this city.
Whose husbands andsons are benefited
by Republican construction OF law
which allows these games to flourish?
Yours, Madam, or yours? Certainly
this is moral canker in the community,
which ought to excite the heretofore
moral Times to some sort of an outcry,
to some extent, to its old time
yigor.
AS to the fragrant fan tan and lottery
gambling in Chinatown, every one is on
to it. Probably we have reached stage
in which the Chinaman has become
evangelistic, and has turned from the
evil of his ways. But we confess that
we have not heard OF any unusual efforts
at his conversion. The leopard, we are
told, cannot change his spots. Neither
can the Chinaman change his ways. He
has been in the habit, in the past, ac-
cording to Republican authority, of pay
ing money for immunity. He has the
Immunity now. Whom does he now pay
fcr official exemption?
In yesterdays HERALD we printed a
permit to Chinaman to violate the
law. This was issued by Chief Glass.
Who knows how many Others may have
been issued? And if so, who knows the
conslderation? If Chief Glass can IL