The Hawaiian gazette., 1907-06-14
ENTER THE SQUARE JAW.


had paid any particular attention IL
the creation by Congress last year OF
"a new United states. Circuit court for
China. So Its stan was on the scene
before the Significance of the event was
at all understood, The Judge appoint
ed by the President was the one man
above all others pre-eminently quail
fed for his task. Judge Wiley had
gone with Governor Taft to the Phil
ippines as District Attorney. He had
set the legal machinery in motion there
and had run out of the islands n lot
OF vicious camp followers. big and lit
tie. who were exploiting the Filipinos
and soldiers, and making trouble gen.
orally. Judge Wiley is n quiet man.
with goodly frame a square jaw
and an even disposition: n man not
given to delivering homilies from the
bench or announcing his intentions be-
forehand or explaining his actions af-
terward. He is the sort of man to
scour the United States escutcheon in
Shanghai where it has been more
than a little furnished in times past
by Americans. official and unofficial.
The day after his arrival he calmly
expected to practise in his court must
pass examination as to their profess
sional qualifications and present certih-
Gates of their moral character. That
would seem an innocent enough pro-
cedure, warranted by practise in the
United States. until one has heard de-
scribed the type of legal shysters who
for the most part infest shanghai,
making its badness worse. Eight men
attempted the examination. Six OF
them failed ignominiously to attain an
average of so out of a possible 100. IL
is said by those close to the judge
that had these men passed the exam
ination all but one of them would have
been barred on the basis of character
At least, one of them is renegade
from the Philippines. and had before
felt Judge wilfley's hand.
CONSIDERATION AMONG CROOKS.
Here was a sensation for Shanghai.
The rejected men had been doing pusl-
ness in this city for many years; their
records We're, presumably, an open
book, so there is significance In the
fact that / have been able to find no.
body to question the essential justice
of the courts action. Naturally the
men can not practise In the British
court, and their face" is gone utterly.
This swift, summary. ominous action
set Shanghafs underworld agog. What
would this as yet uncomprehended
Judge do next?
Nobody had to wait long to discover.
Basing his action on the common law,
Judge Whitley summoned before him
eight proprietresses of the most infiu-
entail resorts. One escaped by plead
ing Spanish citizenship, which the Dis
trict Attorney was unable to disproye.
The Spanish consul issued certificates
for two american girls" but they We're
ignored by the court, and he after
wards attempted to withdraw them.
The girls pleaded guilty, thus leaving
the Spanish consul in an unpleasant
So each of the accused
persons, except one, received a fine or
$1,000, which was more eloquent than
many lectures. The immediate result
was to send post-haste out of Shang-
hal and out of China more than half
hundred american girls" whose reign
in the Far East seems now to have
been forever broken. OF course, all this
Is revolutionary here. When supposed
y respectable Britishers and Ameri-
cans objected. the judge dryly remark
ed that America was willing to sur
render the monopoly of this sort of
trade and reputation.
Then a notorious character, man
higher up" fell into the tolls on the
charge of running a gambling den and
house of designation. He is now spend
ng six months in Jail, with leisure to
the advisability of leav-
ng China. Another man, a hotelkeep-
sr and a Crook was up before the
Judge upon civil charge: he had rent
I'd to a syndicate of Chinese certain
gambling privileges at the racetrack,
when he knew full well that gambling
had been interdicted by the Municipal
Council. Hearing these facts, the
Judge. in open court, ordered a GRIM
nal information lodged against the
hem against America. From such acts
Is the throwing overheard of their Chi
lese boatman, instead of paying him,
~ three American sailors (this hap
,ened near the anchorage of the Unit
ID States steamship Quarus. at Chink-
ang. the night / arrived there), TO the
Wholesale defrauding of the govern
nent and native investors by rail-
way concessionaires, the Chinese have
ome to regard Americans with sus-
'icion and hatred. BY compelling JUS
ice and good behavior on the part OF :
lis countrymen Judge Whitley Is GER
ain to work a vast change in the at
itude of the Chinese toward America
The American missionaries will be
mong the first to feel this. With in
ignifcant exceptions they personally
o only good to the Chinese; most CT I
hem who have suffered death In China Z
ave done SO because OF the misdeeds
( others. Moreover. when the mission .
ry does not have to explain away the =
onduct OF his fellow countrymen he
Ill have n better hearing for his mes y
age. That II why. at time when
lany OF his fellow citizens are pulling y
Tres In Washington TO hamper judge
Vilfey's activity the missionaries are,
$ n body. hailing his work with en- .
huslasm and welcoming him as the
lost effective missionary OF them ALL
ian, Now he Ii spending a year in
III. n
Before this article Is printed certain b
Their eminent Shanghai rascals VIII h