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Los Angeles Record, November 8, 1907
PUT AUTO SPEEDERS
IN JAIL
This Is the Only Method of Preventing
Reckless Driving of Machine
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Oct. 1 — Roy Briganer, 107 N. Hope. Struck by auto at Temple and Flower.
Oct. 12 — J.W. Ross, Santa Fe and Harriet. Thrown from wagon by collision with auto at Pico and Hoover.
Oct. 20 — N. Xeptates, 561 New High Street. Hit by auto at Main and Alameda.
Oct. 22 — H.M. Vierth, 1062 S. Los Angeles. Thrown from wheel by auto at Pico and Hill.
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Oct. 31 — Mrs. J. Arnstio, 916 Valencia. Killed by auto while alighting from car at Ninth and Valencia.
Nov. 2 — L. Jandison, 380 Alameda Street. Thrown from wheel by auto.
Nov. 4 — Munroe Stevens, 3 Plaza. Thrown from wheel by auto at First and Spring.
Nov. 7 — J.F. Stewart, cripple. 411 E. 21st. Knocked out of tricycle by auto, Pico and Main.
(From records at City Receiving Hospital.)
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This is the price Los Angeles is paying for its refusal to compel reckless auto drivers to observe the law and the ordinances relating to speed on the city streets. . . .
Chief Kern says:
“I advocate jail sentences for the speed maniacs who come up time after time for driving at express speed through the streets.
“These fellows are for the
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most part rich, and they charge up the $25 fine to the cost of running the machine and smile at the court behind its back.
“A fine is but a drop in the bucket to them. But they would sit up and take notice if they got themselves on the chain gang. . . .”
More than 20 cases are awaiting sentence before Judge Frederickson, until after
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the holidays. . . . they were arrested by the auto squad at nighttime for driving over 35 miles per hour, which is 15 miles over the limit.
Judge Austin, who was struck by an auto once, says that he almost afraid to cross the streets in daytime, and never at night, until he takes a survey of the streets for several blocks each way.
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Los Angeles Record, November 8, 1907
WHY YELLOW RACES ARE UNFIT FOR AMERICAN ASSIMILATION — No. 3
Repulsive in Religion and Repulsive in Their Habits of Life;
Fearful Uncleanliness in Houses in San Francisco
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By C.H. Tavenner
Written especially for
The Record
The Japanese question is nearing solution with rapidity. This is true because the American people are being educated. . . .
Congress will be forced to pass an exclusion law that will exclude the Japanese as effectively as the Chinese exclusion law excludes the Chinese.
Japan’s religion — Buddhism — will forever make the little brown man morally unfit for American assimilation. This religion offers no hope whatsoever for a woman.
Buddhist dogma, ecclesiastical law and monkish asceticism in Japan, China and India knows woman only as a temptation, a snare, an unclean thing, as scapegoat, an obstacle to peace and holiness.
In Japan — and whatever is true in Japan is true in the Pacific Coast settlements of the Japanese, for they bring their lowest habits with them — duty to parents overshadows all other duties.
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At the command of her father, the purest Christian virgin will sell herself to a life of shame, to enable her father to pay his debts.
She might prefer to die, but she dare not do so, as she is bound not to injure herself. . . .
Orientals are a menace to American life not only because of their immorality, but also because of the fearfully unclean life they lead.
From an inspection of a dozen houses occupied by Japanese and Chinese in San Francisco, I found the occupants were living in a condition so utterly opposed to American conditions of decency as to be a public menace to life and health.
The filthiness was extreme. The noisome odors were unbearable. In some instances, 10 and 12 Japanese not only cooked and slept in one small room, but [also] rolled the cooking utensils up in the bedding in the daytime and used the room as a tailor shop.
It is this kind of life the American workingman is complaining about competing against.
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| The author of this piece may have been Clyde H. Tavenner of Illinois, who was later elected to Congress. Surprisingly, Tavenner was an avid backer of Phillippines independence. Go here for a biography. |
| For a similar screed about the Chinese, click here.
For a chronology of Japanese immigration, click here.
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