Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-11-21
Japanese Jingoes Threaten to Ae-
quire the Islands.
ANNEXATION The ONLY HOPE
White immigration From America
Desired.
P R E s E Mt D A n g E R
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.


HONOLULU. November 6. 1895.
Our new minister to Washington. Mr.
Francis NJ. Hatch, leaves for his post
today. He carries with him the COM
mendations of all parties, as being the
ffttest available man for the position.
Whatever can be done by a Ha-
waiian diplomat for Hawaiian interests at
Washington we feel safe in trusting Mr..
Hatch to accomplish for US. In closing up
his work as minister of foreign affairs he
has been extremely busy upon the various
cases Of claims presented by foreign powers
for damages in behalf of their subjects or
citizens who received more or less severe
handling for alleged completely in the in
surrection of January last The final con-
illusions In none of these cases have yet
been reached. 1t is believed that in few. or
none. will any just claim for damages be SUBJ
stantiated. OF course. 1t would not be i'm
possible that in the stress and urgency of
suppressng formidable insurrection some
persons should have been dealt with more
severely for completely than subsequent
sitting Of evidence would Justify. But the
limited accommodations for prisoners made
1t an object with the authorities to make
no unnecessary arrests under martial law.
1t was also an object to release, by exile.
some persons unsafe to go at large in the
country.
Such was the case with the three men,
Cranstoun. Mueller and Johnston. who were
deported to Vancouver B. c., on the steam
er Warrimoo last February. The two for.
mer Immediately Instituted suits againss
the steamer for $4,000 damages. OF course,
the hawaiian government stand behind the
ship. A Vancouver barrister. E. P. Davis,
has been here in behalf of the steamer,
taking evidence for the defense during the
past three weeks. He left this week for
home. The testimony was taken in private
1t Is understood however to be entirely un-
n a
Mueller for damages.
Japanese In Hawaii.
Our japanese population in Honolulu have
been making things lively on the occasion
Of their emperor's birthday. This came on
Sunday. the Sd. That being by law day for
rest and quiet the Japs contented them
selves with filling up on saki or rice wine.
On Monday they let themselves out. Sah
| Is venomous tipple, full of methylic alco
hol 1t had worked in their insides and
| made them patriotic and pugnacious. They
had lambasted China, and now were ready
to trounce Hawaii on any pretext. 1t was
not long before the little brown men were
| fighting the Kanakas. whose curiosity to
see what was going on had brought too
! many of them around Jap-town. The po-
| licemen found the row too big for them.
| and had to call for reinforcements. A
! large haul of prisoners were run into thu
| station house. Some nasty knife wounds
| had to be cared for.
There are. by a late census, over 1000
| japanese in Honolulu to over 1900 Chi
| nese. In the whole country the Japanese
| are far in excess of other foreign nationali
ties and exceed also the native Hawaiians
| in the number of their males. The
great majority Of the Japs are laborers on
| the plantations. At Makaeven plantation
| alone there arc LOO of them. In this city
| the Japs are rather more in evidence than
the Chinese, although not one-third of their
numbers They are restless race. CAD
1 h IL
men attend strictly to business and make
little trouble. Especially conspicuous on
| the streets are the Japanese women, short
of stature, with Gathering clogs and soft.
| smpering faces. Chinese women are sell
dom seen abroad. Their men keep them at
home. hard at work and tending thar
many children.
There is a much larger proportion of
| Japanese than of Chinese women. In every
| crowd of contract laborers from Japan are
a considerable percentage of women labor
ers. This is not the case among Chinese i'm
| migrants. Nearly all their women have
come in at the charge of husbands or rela-
tives. Very many of them ladies with
| crippled feet and artistically plated and
| gummed hair. with rouged cheeks. Some
| are old crones. hard-working, with kind
| faces, occasionally met with heavy loads on
| their shoulders. common sight in Chi
| nese home is a mother with a swarm Of
children An older girl of six years will be
| commonly seen with the baby strapped all
day upon her back. She grows and plays
about. accustomed to the daily growing bur-
den. 1t is rather pitiful. Our good lady mis-
| sioE aries sometimes find in Chinese home
girl child groaning under the torture of
bound feet, which are to make a lady-crip-
pie Of her. This practice in Hawaii has re-
Gently been prohibited by law, on the ground
Of inhumanity. The foot Is completely
crushed and the bones of the instep and toes
dislocated by the bandages.
Jap Inning grafton Restricted.
The restless disposition of the Japanese,
their tendencies to political activity and
their predominating number have caused
our government some time since to check
the importation of contract laborers of that
race, and to return of late to the importa-
ton of Chinese instead The latter are COM
paratively quiet In disposition. They never
concern themselves about politics. They
almost never combine for a strike. as the
Japs are prone to do. At the same time they
are estimated as worth so per cent more
than the little Japs for hard field labor In
the lighter work of the mills where skin
counts for more the Jap Is more nearly
equal The Japanese are the volatile versa
tile Frenchmen of the Mongolod races while
tne Chlnese are the strong, solid, heavy
Germans. The Japanese have won in the
outset of the race by a splendid speed but
the solid strength of the Cinnamon will win
In the end, If they can ever shake loose from
the letters of conservatism.
The japanese in Honolulu find the action
OF the government in checking their con-
tract immigration a grievance, and are
making some open cutlery against it. 1t
is evidently their desire and plan to get the
country well filed up with their people I'm
the hope Of making Hawaii a JAPANESE
country. 1t is all very we'll for Minister
kurino at Washington to represent japan
as entirely Indifferent to the possession of
Hawaii, but such is certainly not the feel
ing Of the leading Japanese in Honolulu.
They clearly entertain the hope of vet
owning this country and making 1t an
appanage Of their empire. The same feel
ing Is openly avowed by the active politi-
clans of Japan. who are full of the lingo
spirit, especially since the Chinese war,
We have full and positive evidence of their
habitual talk in this direction. OF course
Japan Is unlikely to pursue openly an off,
cial policy looking to a seizure of Hawaii.
This her rulers know too we'll would in
stantly provoke collision with England, as
we'll as with the United States England
urgently needs and desires the possession
of this central station in the Pacific as
completing her chain of connection be-
tween Vancouver and Sydney, via Fill and
Auckland. England has only refrained from
occupying Honolulu in Difference to the
superior claim of the United States Japan-