Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-16

desirable citizen" would have the sup
/ port of our immigration Commission,
| regardless of the origin of that immi-
grant, but 1t opposes laws based on
penalizing or favoring any people on
account of their race or previous con-
dition."
For example, at the last session of
Congress Senator Copeland of New
York introduced bill granting to rab-
bis certain special exemptions from i'm
migration restrictions. That was also
opposed by the Department Of Labor.
because it Disseminated in favor OF
one race, while it might have applied
without objection to all ministers c
religion" no matter what religion.
A fundamental basis for a deporta
ton law is suggested in penalizing and
deporting all members of any organiza-
ton which undertakes to substitute its
own regulations in place of American
law. That would cover the Mafia and
BLACK Hands as well as tongs. the
penalty would then attach to the act,
and not to the nationality of the Of
fender. The method of these alien or
CARNATIONS in taking law" into their
own hands. in place of American laws.
is what is so intolerable.
American law holds all accused in
1ocent until proved guilty, according
to evidence tried in a court, not in
secret society. Chinese have no more
faith In the justice of our courts than
foreigners in China have in Chinese
processes of law. All nations have
treaty exemptions in China from the
prosecution of their own citizens in any
Chinese court, except Russia, Germany
on ctTsfo hn nYnrHiCa
similar exemptions from American
courts, but they do so. not by treaty
rights, but by secret societies and GRIM
inal defiance of our justice.
Perhaps they have more cover for
their defiance and murders of offenders
than we Americans recognize. when
they see how boldly Kentucky feudS"
Sre carried on without the curbing
of our courts. In Italy. MuSsolini is
stopping the feuds of the Malta and
BLACK Hand" America lives in a
glass house" in the matter of crini-
mails and law, and "the heather Chinese
is not peculiar"
. A very prominent Chinese official is
authority for declaring that there are
no tongs in China, that the tongs orig
mated in the United States, and never
existed in any other country but the
United States, and that here they are
attributable entirely to the corrupt
American police, bribed by gambling
Chinese.
"A Chinese gambling house is set up
in some city," says the Chinese oficial,
and 1t Is prepoSterouS to assume that
It's presence is not known to the police
man on that beat. Probably the higher
h1tk
up to tolerate 1t, and so it buys rights
for that field of gambling. Then when
a rival enters that field, the first parties
who have bought protection take 1t as
an invasion of their rights, and avenge
themselves, not against the leaders of
its rivals but against all members"
The police declare that it is difficult,
II not impossible. to identify Chinaman
who is not an American citizen by birth,
for the Chinese suborn testimony of
and If man be arrested
Tor deportationA as criminal, he will
bring into court many witnesses who
swear that they have known the pris-
oner from his birth. and know that he
was born In certain American city
Then when the case OF his arrest is
dismissed for want of evidence, the ar
rested man sues for false arrest.
But, according to the Chinese author
ity, while 1t Is hard to convict China
man of having been born in China, 1t
is not so difficult to convict him, re-
CARELESS OF his birthplace. of running
gambling house on this police beat or
that one. provided the grafters on the
beat be eliminated.
Chinese in China are so honest that
1t is quite customary for stores to re-
main open, without clerk or owner
so that any one may come in and Sc
lect his desired purchase, lay down the
exact payment therefor and carry 1t
away without question. Occasionally
dishonest one may fail to make pay
ment, but he is such an exception that
the practice Is maintained of assuming
honesty to be the rule. This practice
applies mainly to interior localities,
apart from civilized foreigners. 1t is
inferred that they become contaminated
through contact with Occidental civil
ization.
tCopyright. 1925. BY Paul ". colIinsl