The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1909-07-29
THE CHINESE OLIGARCHY
IN THIS COUNTRY
Growth of an Organization That Is Un-
reIenting In its Feuds and a Menace
to the Great Cities.

N~ N~AAN PhAby III NulOu
jeeAh Sin played it upon Bill Nye,
Bret Harte discovered that for
ways that are dark and tricks that
are vain the heather Chinese is
peculiar. There is more truth
than poetry, although the poetry
IS great in its line, in the conclu-
sion. The opaqueness and dupli-
city of the character are not con-
fined to cards or any other gam
bling devices of the race. When
the heather goes into murder he
does it in way that raises an in
quiry as to whether there is any
punishment to fit the crime"
The average American shakes
his head over conditions resulting
from the murder of a white girl in
New York city last June in the
room of a Chinese who had been
converted" by the missionary
efforts of the victim. The recent
sentence in Boston Of five Chinese
to the electric chair next October
for the murder of four of their slant
eyed COuntrymen has brought out
other facts that have added to the
yellow menace in this country.
In every great city in the Uni
ted States there are two rival or
notwithstanding factions
known as the On Leong tongs and
the Hep Sing tongs. These are
the offshoots of the Chinese Six
Companies, the genesis OF which
is so remote, even in the empire of
mystery, that it is known to but
few Of that land S scholars.
The relentless feuds between
these two tong societies in the
United States started a scare a few
weeks ago that reached the state
department in Washington and
turned in an alarm to the capita!
of New York State, which was re-
peated to Mayor Mcclellan of New
, York city, who instructed the
!. commissioner of police to invade
the Chinese quarter of the metro
polls with extra detatchments, un-
formed members of the force and
detectives in plain clothes. " For
several days the usually stocial
countenances of the almond eyed
community were awry. The mer-
chants of the quarter sent ENJOYS
to the national capital to acquaint
the Chinese minister with the sit
uation. In the absence of the min
ster the embassy hurried the next
in authority to the state depart
ment.
The commotion in part was
caused by an eruptive state III the
Hep Sing society brought on over
the sentence of the FIVE Chinese
in Boston, whose conviction the
Hep Sing believed was the work
Of the On Leong tong, Tom Lee
mayor of, Chinatown and leader
of the On Leong tong, which is
composed for the most part of ner-
chants IN the quarter, got out OF
the zone threatened with danger
at the suggestion of the police. 1t
was the opinion of the inspector
vino had the job in hand that
Chinatown at the time was on the
rim of an outbreak and that it was
checked at psychological moment.
The situation was further agi-
tated by the On Leong tongs of
Boston, who held a meeting to
avert what they thought was a
plan ofthe Hep Sing tongs to open
ly avenge the approaching death
of the five who had been sentenced
to the chair. Conditions cleared,
but so intense is the hatred of these
societies, one toward the other,
and so full of cunning is the race
that the police of the cities named
have been instructed to keep Wig
i. liant watch of the quarter where
J craft and opium go hand in hand.
1t is believed that there has
been less sleep recently from drug
or otherwise in Chinese quarters
generally than for many years.
Whenever a policeman pulls a
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