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On Feb. 5, 1885, the newspaper, which called the Chinese neighborhood a violent, drug-addled “leper’s colony,” wrote that it would probably be “goodbye to Chinatown” if an “unoffending white man” were killed there.

Phooey to dust on a random sea breeze or strewn on a field of unoffending vegetation.

The last step came after House members had gone home for the holidays—but left themselves a parliamentary loophole through which to pass unoffending legislation.

“After despoiling it of Furniture, Bedding, Clothing, &c. &c. — they deliberately sat fire to it, in different parts — simply because it was the home of unoffending colored Orphan Children.”

These children—unoffending, innocent, and beautiful—were the victims of one of the most vicious and tragic crimes ever perpetrated against humanity.