Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1911-11-17

market | was eager to learn how the
two races felt toward one another.
sometimes jealousy existing between
the black man and the yellow man.
While / was i'm Phoenix | met d col
ored man who had daily business
dealings with the Chinese. With the
purpose of getting his opinion of his
yellow neighbOr. ! asked him if the
Chinese were good business men.
Yes, sir" he replied The China
man is the truest counter and the
quickest / ever saw" With that he
went on to explain tn me the method
by which Chinese computations are
made. Ii seems that the Chinese mer-
chants employ little frame with
beads strung upon it. something like
that which we are accustomed to use
in the kindergarten. To make their
computations.
The Chinaman just pushes these
beads back and forth across that
frame" my friend continued, makes
some curious mark on a slate. and tells
you quicker than YOU can think just
what YOU owe him. He tells YOU right,
too"
From these remarks and from other
things which | heard | came To the
that, as far as concerned
the black man and the yellow man.
they were getting along pretty well
together.
| learned another interesting fact in
regard TO the Chinese While was in
Arizona In the city Of Phoenix there
is as in many other cities in the west,
a region that is inhabited almost en-
tirely 10y Chinese and is called China
town. In Phoenix, however. China
town" has mayor. II rs called
Mayor Dick" and he seems Ia ne the
supreme authority in Chinatown.
Whenever a Chinaman is arrested for
a small crime of any kind -anNthlng
less than a felony. in fact-it has be
come customary for tie polio author
tiles To turn the mar and his crime
over to Mayor Dick They have
found that they could get substantial
i-,stice riore surely and NOR" convent
ertly in that way th3n they could bN
dragging the culprit into the ordinary
DC lice courts and going thrnnSn the
ordinary processes. The reason Tor
tfis seems To be that the china'nan
las YER little UNDERSTANDING Of AMI
cry little confidence III
the American methods Of administer =
;rg Justice. And So the Ch;Laman in
h. iS .
zen. gets IN this indirect way certain
amount Jf self government.
During thc few days that [ was IN
the cit,. although | was very much
hurried. / took occasion To go down I"
Chinatown and visit Mayor DICK.
He was a little. dried up. yellow nan.
who smoke very broken English He
seemed. however. TO have pretty
clear understanding of American Gus
toms and manners. When ask q"
how he came To be called mayor. he
said in quite matter of fact tone:
well. you see. am here thirty year.
know American custom. When
Chinaboy get in trouble he come TO
see me When policeman get in rou-
BILE with Chinab both come To me
| know how To make il all right. So
the newspapers say ] am mayor OF
Chinatown. Yes"
Mayor Dick" told me that the num-
Der of people in Chinatown is gradual
~ decreasing. Some years ago there
were as many as 400 ChinameR-in. the
city. Now there are not more than
200. The reason is that every China
man must some time go back to China
He is never more than Il sojourner in
America If he does not go back alive,
he goes back in his coffin. Once out