San Francisco Hoodlums and Chinese Citizens
By Editor
THE San Francisco Alta of recent date says:— “The Chinese seem to be getting ample attention; now, suppose that the respectable citizens of San Francisco get together and decide that the hoodlums must go? Within two years a gang of these heartless, conscienceless wretches outraged a poor old widow, who had been to visit her children, and abused her until she died; and now another gang of the same sort of hounds has repeated the crime on another helpless old woman. The good earth would be greener if these scoundrels were swept off it. This city would dignify itself by sending to the jail a sufficient force to take these brutes out and kill them. The next Legislature should take steps to punish such guilt as theirs with death.” Very good; but although such outrages are part of the hoodlum’s every-day life, and are the exception among the heathen Chinese, we have no hesitation in saying that the Chinese will “go” a long while before the hoodlums do, because—the hoodlums can vote, and the Chinese cannot.