Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-03
TI-JAPANESE
CRUSADE IS ON
ATTEMPT TO RID EIGHTH WARD
OF BROWN MEN
Committee Of Reformers, at Head Of
Which Is Attorney e. L. Hutch.
lson, viii lnausurate
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of the hundreds of Japanese who have
| settled there and who have secured
leases on nearly every available shack
and cottage I'm the district. a commit
tee of reformers of the Eighth, headed
by Attorney 70, LfHutchison, the pub
lie ownership candidate for the city
council, will take immediate steps In
a crusade, the purpose of which Is to
make the ward as morally clean as
possible.
The Eighth ward encircles the slums,
the tenderloin and red light districts,
and most of the scum of the city is
inclosed by its protecting dimensions.
but to a reasonable extent the reform
ers hope to clean up some of the ward
and make it as presentable as possible.
To Clear Out Japanese
This crusade will commence imme-
dlately, and If Hutohison is elected
councilman, as the warders declare he
will be, then 1t will be good by to
the Japanese district, for Hutchson
promises to fairly clear the little
brown men from the face of the earth.
Don't talk to me of those Japanese
in the Eighth ward" was the opening
statement of the attorney yesterday
while he was holding conference
with other warders for the purpose of
trying deal being made by Japanese
for the lease of property for lodging
houses and pool rooms.
"They have been. the curse of the
ward, and talk about the white women
of that section being a menace, why,
the Japanese have instituted a system
of cribs lin the Eighth ward that would
make the old Ballerine cribs in their
palmiest days look like a moral ex-
ample of civic decency.
And since the Japanese have taken
hold in the ward there is no stopping
them. They are renting every avail
able foot of space and are simply
growing cancer to that district. The
Eighth ward can never hope to inn
prove or benefit so long as the brown
men are there. and have pledged my
self to the warders to root out the
Japanese if such a thing can be done
and that will be the chief platform in.
my campaign and think it will be a
winning one.
Run by Japanese Women
For example, there are several score
Japanese cigar stands in the Eighth
ward. OF that number, with the ex-
ception of a possible ten or fifteen,
Japanese women make the sales and
run the business. These women' are
Geisha girls who have become so dis
reputable in their own country that
they are given free transportation in
OTQef TO TlQ the OTlelI OI lDeIn anu
thrust them upon America. They sell
cigars and at the same time they So
licit both Japanese and white men who
stop to buy cigars, and in that way
more of the young men of the city
have started on the downward path
than in any other way I know of.
Another menace are the pool rooms.
Visit any one of the pool rooms con-
Quoted by Japanese in the Eighth
saf n
will you find? You will find the low
est representatives of nearly every race
of the globe. The lowest of MeXicans,
Greeks, Italians, Arabs, negroes Jap-i
anese and Chinese--men to whom de-
cent people of their own country would
not speak.
Dens of Vice
These pool halls are dens of vice, |
where most of the crimes committed
in Los Angeles are concocted, and it
is a shame and a disgrace that such
places have been foisted upon the
Eighth ward simply because the
Eighth has had an evil reputation in
the old days,
"It is not fair; there are a few good
citizens left in the ward and they are
goinr to do what they can to clean
it up.
''In the Japanese pool halls you will
stand around and rub up against the
players until some one finally pays at
tention to the solicitation. There is
more gambling and deviltry in a Jap
anese pool room during an evening
than in any saloon of the Eighth.
On Jackson street, where the cribs
were recently closed by Chief Auble
after the expose by The Herald, Jap
anese have rented all those cribs and
have lodging house signs on them.
Now, after careful examination of
those lodging houses, not the Jackson
street ones in particular, but all the
Japanese places in general, we are at
last prepared to state that there are
not more than dozen of the hundreds
of Japanese lodging houses of the city
where standard of morality is OBJ
served.
Large Proportion Bad
"Ninety-nine per cent of the Japan
ese in Los Angeles have no idea of
ing houses there are women attend
ants for purpose only too evident to
the dodgers there.
Much has been said of the Chinese,
but they are a thousand times prefer
able in the Eighth ward to the Jap
anese. The Chinese have always kept
in the section set aside for them. and
not wanted They gamble among
themselves, smoke opium among them
selves and have their own vices, but
they do not intrude.
''The japanese. however, without any
qualms of conscience, after soiling
themselves until they are utterly rot
ten. go out and mingle with the
whites. many of whom are unsus-
pecting and fall easy victims TO the
willy brown men. Nearly every Jap
anese criminal before the local courts
for the past few years, and there have
been many of them, has been a resi-
dent of the Eighth. We are going to
try and clear up that neighborhood
at any cost, and put me on record as
saying So"
THEY TAX Ap0IIT nulI npEN