The Washington herald., 1915-10-31

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mere glance, gamblers and slaves
remble at his approach. No longer
does he levy remorseless tribute on every
Chinese institution in America. For the
human tiger" has been trailed to his lain
smoked out and beaten into submissive
ness by Uncle Sam. Wong Doc King may
delay his deportation by appeals to the
highest courts in the land, but his doom is
rs sure as was formerly the death Of any
who stood in his way.
Wong Doc King is the last and most
formidable Of the highbinders who came
to America with his countrymen. here IN
exact blood tribute of them and to live on
the fat of the land through the terror built
up by the organizations they founded and
maintained through strength Of person
alty, personal courage and remorseless
purpose Uncle Sam has for years waged
war on the highbinders, uprooting them
from their underground quarries and
eVicting them from their iron-door
bound palaces of S-n Francisco, Chicago
and New York
But Wong Doc King stayed on. sur
rounded by his own tong, the most fear.
less and fearsome body of men ever kept
together in this country. Year after year
when lesser and more impotent high
binders were deported by the federal au-
thorities, the human tiger" continued To
pile up immense wealth by blackmafl.
murder, smuggling Of countrymen. fmpor.
tation Of slave girls and opium, the pro-
lection and earnings Of gambling houses
and all the other nefarious methods by
which the highbinders. with their tongs
and professional gunner, were able to ex-
tract the more or less honestly gained
money of their fellow Asiatics.
But now Wong boo has been trapped,
convicted and ordered deported. So strong
is the mass Of evidence against him that it
is uncomfortable that any appeal will avail
him. Murder. bIackmail, smuggling,
slavery have all been proved against him.
AS the Chinese spread eastward through
the United States from San Francisco. II
is to be expected they will make their
last stand there. And as the power of the
highbinders spread eastward from San
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towns" Of Denver, Chicago, Cleveland,
Philadelphia, New York and all the other
large cities, It was to be expected that the
last highlander would make his last
stand by the Golden Gate And so it was.
Wong Doc King was caught in San Fran
cisco. convicted there and from there he
will be deported.
With the exit Of Wong boo will be
shaken to its very foundations the
strength Of the Oriental in America, for II
is more than reputed that he was the DOW
er behind the The Six Companies" the
most influential and respected Chinese or
ganization in the world. The Six Compa-
mics" practically control the commerce in
native goods from China to the United
States. The immensely valuable cargoes
OF rich eastern goods that enter the Gold
en- Gate for the huge Chinese stores of
San Francisco are almost entirely con-
trolled by The Six Companies" And
when New York millionaires and the
wealthy nobility Of Europe 20 to San
Francisco to purchase eastern wares. it is
with the stores of The Six Companies"
that they deal
Through the heart of San Francfsco's
Chinatown runs Dupont street. a narrow
street lined with quaint oriental struc-
lures and the five and .six-story modern de-
partment stores of The Six Companies"
Next to the joss house, looking as II II
had been lifted bodily from the native
quarter of Shanghai, stands a steel and
concrete structure loaded from cellar to
roof with priceless oriental goods.
Commercially, The Six COMPANIES" e1.
ercised all the power and influence that
combinedNcould be exercised by any city's
Board Of Trade. Chamber Of Commerce.
wholesale merchants association and
clearing house. If 1t be true that Wong
Doc King, as has been half learned
through the investigations leading to his
deportation. controlled 1.-The Six Compa-
MES" he was indeed a power beyond his
black deeds as the most terrible of the
hfghbinders. The fact that he could go his
evil way for years after the other high
binders were deported or safely impris-
oned lends credence to the reports that
he did control this powerful commercial
organization.
Openly, however, Wong boo was presi-
dent Of the Bing Kong Association. This
association was the most notorious and
greatest feared Of the numerous tongs
that recently infested the Chinese quar-
tiers Of every city in America. 1t was an
organization of blackmailers and profess
sional gunner, opium runners and slave
girl procurers. And every member of the
association. in every city in which 1t
operated, from San Francisco to New
York, Cleveland to FL Paso, was at the
instant beck and call Of the president and
organizer. Their lives were his to ask
any time he needed a deed committed.
A tongman will commit any crime under
the calendar unhesitatingly, at the COM
mand Of his leader. Protection is guar
anteed him. Should he fall into the
clutches of the law hfs laadar's monev