The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-01-06
JUDGE WHITLEY
IN SAN FRANCISCO
THE SHANGHAI JURTST INTER-
VIEWED REGARDING THE STU
ALTON IN FAR EAST.

The foreign trade of the city OF
Shanghai alone is now $25O,OOO,OO in (.
gold a year Think Oh it! 1t is great
er than all the trade Of the Philippines .
and Japan combined. That's all we
Americans want in the Orient. our
share of the enormous business with
China There is our future Within
a few years Picking will no longer be
the chief city of China, the capital
it is far inland But Shanghai is al
ready the London of the Orient
Thus exclaimed LeDDeus r. Whitley.
Judge Of the United States Court in
China, after his arrival at the Fair
mont yesterday direct from the Orient
and on his way to Washington, d. Z.
Il am going to Washington for two
purposes" said he "One is to secure
the passage of a Congressional act Civ
ing to American courts in China de-
finite set of laws, preferably the Cali
fornia codes, which | personally con-
slider the pest in the Union. The other
is to secure an adequate appropriation
for a permanent representative con-
sular and court building in Shanghai.
The Chinese go a great deal on APP
pearances, and the nation that makes
a poor showing enters the CONNER
cial field there under handicap. You
should see the magnificent buildings
some of the other nations have right
in the heart of Shanghai. They are
enough to make their people proud.
England has a whole block and SPLEEN
did stone buildings for her consulate,
courts and other offices, and the prop
erty is worth about $5,000,00O. The
German buildings are worth about
81 600. 900, the French about $750,000,
the Japanese about S50O,000 and the
American quarters, off on a back
street and all crowded together. are
worth less than 100000.
There has been a wonderful awak-
ening in China, a radical change of
sentiment toward America within the
past twelve months. That whore
southern part of China is feeling the
commercial and reform leadership On
bright, wealthy, enterprising, educated
young Chinese from Hawaii and from
America. Three things nave brought
about the favorable change in Chinese
feeling for Americans. That return of
the 81 100000 Boxer indemnity by
America, the liberal American contri-
buttons last year toward China's fam
inc fund and the rigorous reforms by
the new United States Court in China
in cleaning out notorious American
riffraff in the treaty ports, and letting
all China understand that we are. a
moral and righteous people"
Judge Whitley is a young man, APP
parently under 40, a native of St.
Louis, a graduate of Yale and a law
yer by profession. He talks with a
rush that tells of enthusiasm, earnest
ness, patriotic pride and a scorn of
the whole type of Americans that Tor
the past twenty years, so he declares,
have made the principal Chinese ports
know the American nag as the recog-
nized street sign for a gambling house
or the heart of the redlight district.
Now as a result of Judge Whitley S
vigorous action in enforcing the sim
pie rules of the old common law there
is not an American woman in all Chi
ma conducting a disreputable house.
Before Judge Whitley had been in
Office two months he had two of the
biggest and most notorious American
gamblers in Shanghai placed in jail
and quickly after that followed the
legal suppression of the heart of the
disreputable colony that had so long
made all respectable Americans in
China silently refrain from mention
reputable had become the more evil
dent American element in these cities
Judge Whitley was sent to the Phil
ippines six years ago as Judge of the
Court of First Instance at Manila, the
appointment coming, it is said, from
Taft, who was then Governor of the
islands. Within the year of his arri-
val Wiley was promoted to Attorney
General of the Philippines, and in
that capacity started the vigorous
prosecution of the disreputable ele.
ment of Americans that Taft began
driving out of Manila for Manila's
good. Many of this renegade Ameri-
can element flocked over to the cities
of the China coast,
Last year, following Taft's reports
on conditions in the Orient and Roots
plan for improving the consular ser
vive all over the world, President
Roosevelt asked Judge Whitley to take
his five years experience in the Phil
ippines and go over into China and es
tablish the newly authorized United
States Court which should have It's
headquarters at Shanghai, but juris
diction over all the 5000 Americans
now in China.
Whitley stirred up a hornets nest il
the element he sought to drive GU
from the old shelter of the American
flag. He imposed bar examination
and required certificates of mora