The San Francisco call., 1910-07-29
Chinese and CITY
OFFICIALS CONFER
Mayor Warns Celestials to Obey
the Law and Urges Them
to Gust White Migrants
MOngOlians Are Promised Fair
Treatment and Investigation
of Wong Dick Shooting

At conference yesterday in the
mayors office between members, of the
city government and representatives of
the Chinese community the latter were
warned not to violate the law, urged
to cast the white vagrant from their
midst and guaranteed "the right to
enjoy their exclusive pleasures in their
different clubs as the white citizens in
their exclusive clubs" In return the
Chinese asked for a legal inquiry into
the shooting of Wong Dick by Police
man McEachern in the recent raid, re-
questing that they be treated as other
nationalities and, above all, that they
be let alone.
The conference was called by Mayor
Mccarthy in response to a petition.
The purpose, as expressed by the mayor,
was TO have definite and fair un-
derstanding which will guarantee a
better feeling for the future" Those
present We're: Mayor Mccarthy, Chief
of Police Martin, Cleveland Dam, Dis
trict Attorney Fickert, Police Commits
sioners Percy Henderson, Walter OCon-
nell, Joseph F. Sullivan and Isaac Spiro,
Gilmore Leffingwell, the mayors secre-
tary, members of the press and the
nese colony; Louie Toy. president, and
Lum B. Lowe, secretary, of the Chinese
chamber of commerce; Louie Quong,
Chin Yen, Gin Sick Quong; Wong You,
owner of the Chinese World; Tong Min,
Chin Sack Gee, Wong Tong; Yee Lin,
secretary of the Chinese six companies.
LEADING MERCHANTS
The oriental delegation was com
posed mostly of leading merchants of
Chinatown. 1t was identical with the
Chinese committee that assisted in the
Portola festival, and it was for this
service that the mayor chose them as
the representatives of their people.
The mayor began by reading a pre-
pared statement in which he spoke of
past misunderstanding pledged him
self to give the Chinese rair treatment,
urged them to expose the blackmailers
and to discountenance any effort to
protect crime by injunction. In con-
clusion he said:
/ say to you that l want you to .
live within the law and not to feel
under the necessity of paying blood
money for the right which is yours.
1 do not believe, and | will not ap-
prove of such conditions either,
should signal the location of your
exclusive clubs. L believe that it
is part of your duty to ban1sh
the white gambler from your dis
trict, and that you must do. | want
no news to reach me that lotteries
are fiourishing in your section and
that white men and boys are pa
irons thereof
I shall see to it that the police
treat you honestly and fairly, and
ask you here and now, in all fair
ness to the white community, to
bring direct to me the first evidence
that can be obtained of white men
or other persons extorting money
from you or holding up your peo-
pie for graft. l leave it to you to
bring me the complaints and give
me the chance to make examples of
who thus imposes upon you. You
can remedy, all this by paving
home VIII fae5 pc ca and want fo
me with your grievances at any
time the policy | have outlined is
not being faithfully and carefully
carried out in your quarter.
District Attorney Fickert then read
a prepared statement, in which he ad-
monished the Chinese against seeking
injunctions by fraud, quoted the anti
gambling laws and added that legiti-
mate clubs would be protected.
Chinese clubs conducted for a legiti-
mate purpose" he said, "are entitled to
and will receive at my hands the same
conSidera ton that is extended to White
clubs conducted for legitimate pur-
poseS."
THANKS THE MAYOR
Lum B. Lowe, who acted as inter-
prefer, thanked the mayor on behalf
of his countrymen. He was asked If
the Chinese had any complaint. par
ticularIy in regard to the invasion of
their homes by policemen. After
consultation among his colleagues,
Lowe replied:
"The Chinese merchants appreciate
very much what you are doing for u.s.
We wish to be treated just as any other
nationality would be treated, and as we
would be treated in any other city. The
merchants do not like to See violations
of the law or criminality. Those who
are getting the injunctions are a very
small part of us. We ask merely to
he treated as any other nationality,
and assure you that we desire that our
countrymen should not violate the law.
We have heard the rumor that police
men have entered private homes, but
we have paid no attention to it.
''There is another important matter
the shooting in Chinatown of week
ago. We would like the police officer
to be treated according to the law. BY
so doing you would satisfy our people.
I'VE wish to express our thanks to
YOU We hope from now on that the
police officers will act within the law
and let us alone"
District Attorney Fickert assured the
Chinese that the shooting would be
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