The times., 1897-04-26
THE AMBITIOUS MIKADO.
His Eyes Have Long Been Turned
Toward Hawaii.

His Eyes Have Long Been Turned
| Toward Hawaii.
Los Angeles, April 25. When the cruiser
! Philadelphia was dispatched to Honolulu
there was a very general feeling OF salts
| faction throughout all the Pacific coast
| States. That sentiment was due to the
| belief that the Japanese government has
! for months been steadily pouring subject:
| OF Japan into the islands. in order to get
! control Of political affairs, and eventually
| gain possession of Hawaii.
| Men familiar with affairs in Hawaii say
that il has been the intention of the Jap
| anese government TO wait until the Jap
anese in the Islands should number more
than the native Hawaiians, and more than
all the other foreigners, and then TO dernand d
for them the same political rights as the
natives enjoy. Even with limited suf-
frage they would soon be in practical con-
troll OF the government, and its affairs
would be administered as the Mihado's
government saw fit And should some
crisis arise. such as diplomacy can always
create, japan would step IN ard take
actual possession.
A gentensn who spent nearly all OF
last year in Hawaii says that during his
stay there the Japanese government has
been simply pouring it's people into the
Islands. There was no demand fer pIanta-
tion labor, as the sugar plantations had
time contracts not yet worked out with
al the laborers they will need for months
TO eoIne. Many OF the new arrivals evi-
IDENTIFY were not accustomed to work, and
they did not attempt 10 find work after
they landed i'll Hawaii They were young
men. with no funds of their own, and yet
they were supporiedin idleness apparently
by the same power that sent them there.
Chief Justice Judd, of Hawaii, gives
the number of Japanese in the islands as
q 400, OF Chinese, 81 800, and of Ha-
waiian natives, 81 900 He says that re-
Gently 800 japanese were landed in
one week, and that the regular increase
has been from 1 500 to 1900 a month.
AT this rate, he says. lit viii not be long
until they have overrun the islands. And
what we most fear then is that they
viii think they ought to have political
supremacy
A gentleman Of this city, whose business
makes it necessary for him TO spend much
time In Japan, takes an even more startling
view OF the case than those already quoted.
He spends every year from three to six
months among the japanese, living lnti-
Inately with them in their houses and going
with them TO far inland villages. he has
been doing this for SO many years that
he knows them as he knows his own oun-
trymen He said:
1T has been evident to me for long
time that the Japanese intended to take
trasf 70 d. dual =4tcf
this sly, steslthy way They are ambi-
tious as Z nation, and they want to be
come the cunquerors of the world. But
to do that sort OF thing takes much Teve-
nue., and they are planning to spread out
aud seize whatever they can lay hands
on which Will bring in revenue without
much outlay. And this sort of coloniZa-
tion job which they have been practising
on Hawaii is the very cheapest way of
acquiring territory.
They know how 20 smile and bow aud be
so exquisitely polite as to disguise their
real intention, whether that be grabbing
territory or making a foreigner pay three
times its value for piece OF pottery. But
they never forget for d moment wha they
want, and let them get as much as oLe
finger CD it and they never let go until
they get it. From making treaties down
to selling paper lanterns they can drive a
harder bargain than Yankee andlie more
braZenly than a horse trader, and be so
suave and so courteous all the time that
they can make you believe you are cheating
them out OF their eyes when they are
really skinning your very teeth.
''In politics they have the same patience
that they have in carving fvories, and they
work ar either occupation slowly and
cautiously making little apparent progress,
but keeping their own ends in view and
never making mistake They mean
to he some day the biggest greatest, strong
estnauionin the world, and from the Mikado
down TO the poorest laborer in the tea
fields there ISM japanese but is willing
TO contribute what he can toward bringing
about that result, though it may be 200
years in coming. For my part, can't
help believing that they viii accomplish
whatever they really start out 70 do.
And If they once get the kind of foothOld
they want in these United States-they
haven I got it yet-we are going 10 have
the biggest fight with them we've ever
had with anybody.
At present they are so cocky over having
licked the Chinese that they think they
could whip any other nation. But they are
shrewd enough to keep out OF entangle-
ments OF that sort until they can raise
revenues without squeezing their own coun-
try dry. That is whatthey wantin Hawaii,
andthey will get Hawaii, too, without much
delay, If this Government doesn't annex
the islands and compel the Mikado to keep
his hands off lam an xious about what will
happen when the Philadelphia and these two
warships all reach there, because the Japan
ese are going TO put up told front and
demandthe last letter Of their treaty rights,
and as much more as they think they can
get.''