The Washington herald., 1922-03-12
Links West Coast japanese
Problem with Wide Unrest
California Situation Appears to Gibbs an Evi-
dence of Rising Tide Of Color, Demand
ing Anglo-Saxon Unity.

tween certain Chinese clans. family
vendettas of Sicilian kind. so
that IL a man Is killed in one FAM
;ly. he is revenged by the murder
of brother or cousin or maternal
uncle, or infant son, in the family
of his assassin. The police are get
ting the better of that-wiping II
out. Their chief trouble now Is
with the gambling dens and the,
dope traffic. They have got the
better of the gambling dens, by
drastic measures, but the dope
business is harder to- kill and is
demoralizing many white folk.
The tall Irlshman glanced toward
young Chink slouching through
the public gardens.
see that boy? He's waiting to
pass the dope. I'm having him
watched"
White men and women are fall.
ing to the vice In great numbers,
in spite of the law. and police ac-
tivity. 1 saw groups of these mis-
cradles in the prison of San Fran
cisco. pacing \up and down like
Gagged animals in, the narrow cor
ridors between their cells. Some Of
them were well dressed young men.
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the women's part of the prison.
them spoiled the sunlight for me
in the city outside.
Apart from that vice the Chinese
are law-abiding, good natured folk.
and honest in their way of bust
ness. They did not seem to re-
sent the presence of the Irish de-
tective, but greeted him with grins
and a "Hulloah, boss" as he strobe
into their houses, where old 'Chinks
sat playing cards. led me up high
flights of stairs into large rooms
filled with the incense of joss
sticks, and furnished with gaily
colored affairs, with wax figures and
paper flowers, and gilded carvings,
and then downstairs into dark pas.
sages through secret doorways.
He walked with the assurance of
man who knows his way in the
dark. flashed his lantern son bolts
which could be operated by cords
and pulleys from upstairs rooms.
showed me how the walls and pam
els disguised doors through which
the Chinks could bolt at the first
signal of alarm.
wonderfully good work." said
the Irish detective, with profess
isional admiration. "All these rab-
bit-warrens cost us a lot of trouble
to locate"
Japs and Chinese Hostile.
There is no friendship or alliance
between the japanese and Chinese
in California. In San Francisco
they live in separate quarters, sus-
piciOus of each other, hostile, and
the Japanese are arrogant towards
those other people OF the East who
glance sideways at them out of slit
eyes and read their newspapers
with no assurance. | Jam told, in
the clauses of the Washington con-
ference which guarantee the integ-
rity of China.
So in San Francisco the problems
of the Pacific are intimate and hu
man whereas in New York they are
remote and theoretical. These prob
lens in my mind are linked up with
the rising tide of color throughout
the world. with the spirit of revolt
in India Egypt, Mesopotamia, Syria,
Persia and the old Turkish Empire.
and all Mohammedan peoples. The
thought impresses one great moral
upon white people, IL there is ever
to be any common sense among
them. 1t is the necessity of peace
between them. If there is another
massacre of youth in Europe like
that of the last great war, if the
white races tear each other to
pieces again, other races will take
their place. There is no possibility
of doubt about that. Another con-
viction comes to an Englishman in
San Francisco. 1t is the vital need
of union between the English
speaking peoples of the world-in
the British Empire and the United
States. Our interests are the same
in the Pacific and the Old World.
|. (Copyright, 1897