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Letter No. 2.
“To the Cleveland Times:
I am glad to see that the Times has sufficient backbone to condemn raids on the Cleveland Chinese editorially — while the — was still puttering about in characteristic fashion, debating the policy involved in opposing the anarchistic enterprise of Mr. Barry.
“One Chinaman was murdered, and Mr. Barry’s department knows no more about the murderer than it knows about a score of murderers who have gone unpunished since the first of the year.
“Yet 800 persons were grossly wronged and a nation insulted as a consequence.
“But Mr Barry reckoned without the justice that still exists in the courts and the spirit of fair play that still dominates American men and women...”
from the second of eight public letters from the local newspapers, presented toward the end of James K. Shen, “The Arrest of Chinese in Cleveland,” The Chinese Students’ Monthly 21:3 (January 1926) : 39-54 : link
notes —
- on the event, see Shirley Sui Ling Tam, “Police Roundup of Chinese in Cleveland in 1925: A Case Study of a Racist Measure and the Chinese Response,” Ohio History Journal 109 (Winter-Spring, 2000) : 5-23
Ohio History Connection : link - the same journal carried an article by Jean D. Lyon, included earlier in these putterings :
“Attitudes in Washington,” The Chinese Students’ Monthly 21:7 (May 1926) : 40-42
see Jean D. Lyon, other writing : 1920-1952 : at putterings 319a
21 January 2026