Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1907-07-23
CLEANED Up SHANGHAI
MAN IN new YORK TELLS
OF WHAT ROOSEVELT DID
WHY JUDGE whitley WENT
AFTER LAWYERS AND 9TH
ERS-DRAsTlC METH.
OBS WITH OTHERS.

James E. Dever, arriving yesterday
on the Campania, finishing a circuit Of
the globe told how Roosevelt has
cleaned up Shanghai says the New
York WORLD of July 10. When Secre-
tary Taft returned two years ago from
his celebrated trip to the eastward ha
reported to the President that in tina.
treaty port, famous throughout the
world, he name American" was %,n-
onymous with crook" "disorderly"
and 'dive-keeper. The President he
came exceedingly angry over the re-
cital and Immediately determined to
change this order of things and adopt
the most drastic measures to purge not
only the American concession but also
the whole city of Shanghai of its "un-
desirable" citizens, whether a strict
Interpretation of international law or
eXtra-territorial rights would bear him
out or not.
Il will change all this the Presi-
dent is alleged to have declared, 80
| that the name OF American instead OF
being reproach and by-word
!! throughout the treaty ports shall be
synonym of honor
! For the purpose Of conducting his
moral crusade President Roosevelt Sc
lected Judge Wiley, who had per-
formed similar work in Manila, for
the post of Extra Territorial Judge at
| Shanghai. A complete court was
given to Judge Whitley. His clerk is
a graduate of Columbia, who has writ
ten several books on international
law, and mis- prosecuting attorney is a
bright young man, not yet forty. He
has also staff of bailiffs. who gather
in the disreputable Americans where
ever they find them, within or without
the American concession. Mr. Rogers,
the American Consul, is an able sec
ond to Judge Whitley.
ITO Shanghai had hoated," said Mr.
Dever, 1.-The dregs and lowest outcasts
fthe Pacific coast and the interior
States. Many of them had been cast
out of Manila. The men outcasts were
swinders, thieves and cheap conf
dence men, living by their wits from
hand to mouth. They even posed aa
lawyers, but Judge Whitley established
an examination that they must pass
and thyew the shysters out of court.
Every woman, every man that
could not give good account of her.
self or himself and prove that her or
his living was honestly earned was
hailed before the court. Every one
was fined $1,000 in gold and ordered
out of the city, until the steamboats,
running up and down the river were
crowded with the poor creatures fee
ing from Shanghai, but having no
place to which to turn.
Reputation was enough to warrant
! a bailiff in arresting woman or
man, and Judge Whitley made short
tShrift of the disreDutables until the
name American in Shanghai was no
longer synonymous with 'disorderly'
81 saw woman arraigned who ac.
knoWledged she was an American, but
pleaded for further hearing. When
she came into court on the next day
she had changed her nationality and
said she was Spanish. You were
American yesterday and American you
are today, said the Judge One thou
sand dollars fine is your sentence and
out you go on the next boat
'"The English and some of the other
nations holding concessions are highly
pleased with the thorough way the
Americans have cleaned up the city
and are seconding President Roose-
velt's efforts, but some of the other
governments, in whose concessions
grating has been going on, are not so
well pleased. The American conces-
sion, like the English, which adjoins
it, is policed by three kinds of police
men-English boobies, Sikhs and Chi
namen, the last named concession to
Chinese prejudices, the natives pre-
terring to take orders from their coun-
trymen."