The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-06-10
OUTLANDERs IN HAWAII.
New York Tribune.l

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The South African Republic is not
the only country that has an Outlander
question to settle. The Hawaiian Re
public has one, too, which may present
~ prove quite as troublesome as that
with which Dom Paul is trying to
deal. In this latter case 1t is the Jap
anese wLo are the Outlanders. They be
gan u settle there many years ago,
when Japan was as little civilized as
China is today, and Hawaii was still in
the bonds of Kanaka barbaTism. Then
the civilized settlers discovered that
the japanese were admirable workmen,
and began to import them in large
numbers as contract laborers." At last
the awakened and enlightened Japan
csc turned their attention to the island
realm to which so many of their cOun-
trymen had gone, and judged it worthy
of peaceful invasion and industrial and
commercial conquest. The result is be
fore us today. There are now more
adult male japanese in the Islands than
men of any other race, not even eXclud-
ing the native Hawaiians themselves
They are increasing in numbers more
rapidly than any others, and are in
creasing in wealth and influence as
we'll They are beginning to demand a
controlling voice in political affairs.
Within a measurable space of time at
the present rate, they will largely out
number all other elements of the popu-
lation put together. And then what?
Only one result is reasonably to be ex-
pected.
That result can scarcely be pleasing
to citizens of the United States. This.
nation has, of course, no hostility for
Japan, but only the warmest friendship
and the most earnest wish for prOsperi-
ty. But it could not regard with salts
faction the possession, even by Japan,
of that group of islands, so near its own
shores, so closely related to it by his
toric ties, and so well designed to be an
appendage of it's own realm Hawaii
was redeemed from savagery and put
on the high road to civilization by Am
orleans. 1t occupies a place of great
strategic Importance in relation to the
American Pacific coast. It's commercial
value to America is incalculable. The
natural tendencies of it's people have
been toward closer connection with the
disappointment and a serious material
loss to this country to have Hawaii
! pass irrevocably into the possession of
another power, and that power which
! however friendly, is Enthusiastically a
| dangerous rival to America in the COM
merce of the Pacific
Against such a procedure, however,
| this Government can make no protest
Mr.. Cleveland and his Paramount Com
missioner have put it out of court. The
| Islands might long ago have been in
dissOlubly united with the American
Union. 1t was the desire of the Ha-
waiian Government and of the best ele-
! done. But the American Executive re-
fused to have it done, and went to ex-
traOrdinary pains to prevent it's being
done, and did everything possible to
ALLEVIATE the young Republic and to
drive it to seek alliances with other
powers If, then, this rich Jem of the
Northern Pacific, this midway station
on the great trade routes between Am
erica and Asia and Australia, shall pres
entity pass into Japanese control and be-
come an Asiatic outpost toward Ameri-
ca, instead of an American outpost to-
ward Asia, the consecrated diplomacy
of Mr. Cleveland will alone be respCn-
sible for it. And such a state of affairs
is now to be regarded as among the Sc
riOus possibilities, and even the proba-
b1lit1es, Of the near future.