The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-04-10

any laws to check their immigration.
In six years the Chinese increased from
1890 to 2l,626 being 6,325 increase, or
30 per cent, while the Japanese in
crease was from IL, $50 to "a, ,4O7, or near
ly 100 per cent.
JAPANESE POURING IN.
There is thus seen to be pending a
severe competition for the coming oc-
cupation Of these islands between the
white and the Asiatic races. As mat
ters now stand the latter have an
overwhelming advantage in numbers,
and in facility of transportation to
Honolulu. Packed in tramp steamers,
they are landed here from Yokohama
at 500 head, often ZOO to 1000 in a
single trip, making the passage in an
average Of twelve days. Whites can be
brought here at no such prices nor
Is there on your Pacific coast any such
vast surplus population to draw from
as Asia supplies Our only hope for a
white race, as the main popula ation of
these islands in the future, seems to
depend entirely upon an early anneXa-
tion to the United States. Only that
event can lend the necessary stimulus
to secure to us a large and rapid
Influx of whites. While independent,
this government is debarred by treaty
from any attempt to check japanese
immigration. But the United States
have the power to do that for us, when
ever we form part of the Union.
AT the increasing rate the japanese
are now swarming in upon us it will
not be fifteen years before they form
two-thirds of our population. They
have eVarU ip5upappap- 20 xo,oa loro
Wages are three times what they earn
at home. The climate is delightful.
These here send for their friends and
help them over. Scores run home ev-
cry month and tell what a paradise
Hawaii is, and how the Japanese will
soon fill up and own the country. II
is pet notion Of people in Japan,
high and low, that the Hawaiian
Islands are destined soon to become
their possession. The evidence of this
prevailing idea is abundant in Japan
ese newspapers. Apparently there is
nothing to prevent the early realiza-
ton of that result. Indeed, it may be
clearly asserted beyond contradiction,
that without a very prompt and active
interposition on the part of the United
States, Hawaii will in a very few de-
cades become mainly japanese in pop
ulation. Will you permit your great
central outpost for dominating the Pa
cific thus to be made Asiatic, and
your prosperous American colony thus
TO be smothered by the Mongo!oid
hordes?
Nothing can possibly prevent the Ha-
waiian Islands from becoming effect
ually Japanese colony within twenty
years except annexation to the United
States, the active white immigration
which would spontaneously follow that
event, and a positive check upon the
Japanese influx, such as the United
states only can administer. No one
who knows the ambition of the Japan
ese people, and that love of political
action which distinguishes them from
the Chinese, can doubt for a moment
that whenever they find themselves in
a large numerical ascendancy here
they will assert themselves and take
possession of the government of this
republic, electing japanese officials.
Observe that no guaranty of independ-
ence to Hawaii and no mere nrotecto-
rate could prevent a Japanese major
ity Of the people from uniting and
claiming to rule.
HOW 1T WOULD BE DONE.
There would need to be no assertion
OF japanese sovereignty,or interference
of the japanese government with the
independence of the republic of Ha-
wall That government would only
need to claim from Hawaii what could
not be denied by us, or lawfully pre-
vented by the protecting states, the
equal rights of her people to the fran
chise with other foreigners. The jap
anese would then outvote the rest of
us, and install their own president and
legislators. Who could say them nay?