New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-07-26
THE PASSING THRONG.

yesterday at the Fifth Avenue Hotel of some char
acterstics Of the Chinese Il have
CHINESE noticed in the papers recently he
JUSTICE IN said, "a story Of how Wung
AMERICA. Kai Kee Chinese artist had fur
nished a paper here with the Chi
nese symbol for Kill all the foreigners On
count of this Wung Kaf Kee had incurred the dis
pleasure of bis compa trots and had fled fearing
for his life. Fortunately, Wung seems TO have
found means of squaring matters for he has ap-
parently returned home, relieved OF dread. This is
a typical case, and will to point out TO you
In the East what we in the West all too familiar
with. The Chinamau has a thorough and progress
sive contempt for all laws but his own. He obeys
the law OF the country he is in If he has to, but he
seldom appeals to it, and is prone. when he thinks
0 wrong has has been done him to take the law in his
tcs, yet wherever Cinnamon TO be found there
Oriental justice having been administered by them,
A Chinaman ofends or transgresses some chinese
law in America The offence may also break an
American law, and the remedy in an American
81 tbair secra1 cdncaIs 80 rnc ~ Trs9cr Ii
out that punishment to the offender thereby break
ing the law OF the land wherein they live, and in
ninety-nine cases out of a hundred they escape
binders. or some kindred secret society and wher-
should be dealt out 10 the offenders. If they can't
lie caught, take a leaf out OF the Chinamans own
gTesso or reaves ri warrant YOU'D get the real
offender in this way and put stop 10 their work,
The papers have shown you the awful fear OF
wung Kai Kee and his wife of the peril he was
called upon TO face; peril IN
FEAR OF known TO you and without your
THE HIGH law. That fear Of the high
BINDER. binder. and Wung may we'll have
been In dread of his life. for the
highlander fails 70 STAY when once he makes
up his mind do Let give you a couple
Of instances out Of innumerable number which
we have endured in this line in San Francisco.
The most famous and possibly the richest China
man ever had In San Francisco was Little
Pete He exceedingly clever Monaghan,
skilled in American as well as in Chinese methods.
Pete it was who went into horse racing, and into
b on scientific American PRINCIPLES thar lad me
heels The ponies then ran AT the Old racetrack
where Camp Merritt was afterward established,
ess oS W5c i 6 b n RaEp9s lead Gour S
scientifically did he work it that before the ring
tgmGe e 70 the baGt that they were up agans5
100000 OF their good money. and he stayed away
with It. too Little Pete got into trouble with the
the police, he knew, couldn't help him much Pete
watch and ward as they could over him Pete
personally employed two Cinnamon as guards, and
this way he preserved his life for &' Weeks Bu One
get shaved Little Pete wanted to- see an eyen 10
ing paper, so he sent his guard across the street
about; The guard was gone less than a minute.
but that was sufficient, and when he got BACK
murderer was never apprehended."
"One evening, on a crowded street in Chinatown"
continued Mr.. LitteH. "a Chinese woman was shot
and instantly killed. At one cross
WOMAN street corner the time were a
KILLED AND lieutenant of police and three
POLICE NEAR patrolmen. At the other cross
street corner were two more
policemen, while directly across the street another
policeman slowly pacing his beat AT the shot
the three forces cOnverged rapidly to the point
where the murder had occurred, and arrested all
the 'Chinks' they could lay their hands on There
lay the murdered woman on the sidewalk deliber-
ately killed on crowded and brilliantly lighted
street within eyesight and earshot OF seven guar
dians OF the law. For all that, however her muir
derer got away scot free. 1t was found aftervard
that the Chinaman who had done the deed never
made move to escape, but having shot his victim
down. thrust the weapon up his sleeve and calmly
watched her die. The police arrested him along
with score OF others, but they could prove
othng and witnesses were Forthcoming tha,-
had to let him go. Yet the smoke OF that pisTol
shot was still In the air when the first policeman
got the
II give you these instances TO show vou The
deadly and hendish ingenuity of the Chinaman
when he sets out to kill punish. He defes vOur
law, and in utter contempt OF IL takes the law inI
his own hands. He should be punished for v-bst ~
it seem helpless 10 reach him a. -
protect those whom the Cinnamon in secret 80
clave have decreed must die. Some drastic rSotSa
Of proceeding with Chinese cases should he i,Iert5
TO inspire Cinnamon with respect for Arrer4coU
law, which they now hold in contempt ""