Chinese Gambling Arrests
By Editor
It is stated that there were 3,247 arrests for gambling in Los Angeles last year, but that only twenty-two of the arrests were of white men. The others, we suppose, were Chinamen. It is touching to see the tender regard which the California policeman has for the morals of the benighted heathen who are among us. No one supposes for a moment that the number of Chinese gamblers exceeds the number of white men who indulge in the same vice; and the only reason we can give why the police do not arrest the white men as well as the Chinamen, is that they think the former are beyond reformation. Heathenism is not dependent on race or color, and we very much doubt if the Asiatic heathen could give any instruction in vice to those who are of American or European birth.