Evening star., 1897-03-19
One or the Other is Sure to Have
Hawaii.
PROBLEM OF TIE VARIOUS RACES
The Japanese Are Increasing More
Rapidly Than Any Others.
ANNEXATION THE REMEDY
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.
HONOLULU, February %, 1S9


Recently gave you some points obtained
from the census of Hawaii made last Sep
tember Some further details have been
tatulated and published. The whole num-
| Der of Mongoloid Asiatics is given at 49,
| 023, which is 42.2 per cent of the whole
population of 10000. OF the remainder,
80, J04, or 1862 per cent. are Hawaiians and
| part Hawaiians. Europeans number %, 43S,
or 20.6 per cent. OF these last. over two
thirds, or 15.191, are Portuguese. Ameri-
| cans are 306S; British, $3.50; Germans,
1,432, and Norwegians, 37S, making 7,146
Teutonic whites or 6.55 per cent of the
population. The Portuguese are Ii per cent
of the whole.
1t is somewhat of surprise to US, and
not disagreeable one, to find that the Jap
anese males are hardly at all in excess of
the Chinese, there being 1922 Of the
former, and 19,167 of the latter. Together
these Asiatics form 53 per cent of the
whole male population. Either nationality
has males much in excess of the pure Ha-
waians. Fortunately these two classes of
Asiatics are antagonistic to each other, and
unlikely ever to combine for political as
cendancy. The Japanese, however, have
5,195 females to 2449 of the Chinese, and
hence will multiply by births more than the
latter. we'll as by immigration. The
Japanese are not only nearer to Hawaii
than the Chinese, but are also by treaty
protected from any laws to check their i'm
migration. In six years the Chinese in
creased from 1890 to q .626. being 6.;s25 in
crease, or % per cent, while the Japanese
increase was from 1880 to ~, 40I, or near
ly 100 per cent.
The Portuguese number soc males to
$3.50 females. They have increased 81 per
cent in the six years entirely by births.
They have had no immigration, and many
have left for California, without bettering
themselves. They are prolific race. Teu-
tonic whites have 4.463 males and 2,6S3
females. Many of these men are married
to nalf and three-fourths white women.
and some to pure natives. The same is
true of many Portuguese males, their wo-
men often marrying Teutonc whites. 1t
seems reasonable to note this distinction
between these two classes of whites. al
though the Portuguese born here and
| taught English in the schools which all
are compelled to attend, become nearly
indistinguishable from other whites.
The Japnnese Pouring In.
There is thus seen to be pending Sc
we're competition for the coming occupation
of these islands between the white and
the Asiatic races. AS matters nov stand
the latter have an overwhelming advan-
tage in numbers, and in facility of trans
portation to Honolulu. Packed in tramp
steamers, they are landed here from Yoko-
hama at $50 a head often 100 to 900 in a
siiSiS tIlp, ihdhlHS lHe passage In an aver
age 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 Asia supplies
Our only hope for a white race as the
main population of these islands in the fu-
ture, seems to depend entirely upon an
early annexation 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 immigra ton
But the United States have the power to
of the Union.
At the decreasing rate the Japanese are
now swarming in upon us it will not be
hfteen years before they form two-thirds
or our population. They have every in
ducement to come here. Wages are three
times what they earn at home. The eli
mate IS delightful. Those here send fer
their friends and help them over. Scores
run home every month and tell what
paradise Hawaii is, and how the japan
ese will coon fill up and own the country
1t Is a 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 japanese newspapers Ap-
parently there is nothing to prevent the
early realization of that result. Indeed it
may be clearly asserted beyond contradic-
ton, that without very prompt and active
lnterpoS1t1on on the part of the United
States Hawaii will in a very few decades
become mainly Japanese in population. viii
dominating the Pacific thus to be made
Asiatic, and your prosperous American
colony thus to be smothered by the Mon
goloid hordes?
waiian Islands from becoming effectually
JapaT ese colony within twenty years ex-
cept annexation to the United States, the
active white immigration which would
a nSly fnl1n fLot
positive cneck upon the Japanese influx
such as the United States only can admin
ister No one who knows the ambition of
the japanese people, and that love of politi-
cal action which distinguishes them from
the Chinese can doubt for moment that
whenever they find themselves in a large
numerical ascendancy here they will
sert themselves and take possession of
the government of this republic, electing
Japanese officials. Observe that no guar
anty of independence TO Hawaii and no
mere prctectorate could prevent a Japan
eSe majority 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 inde-
pendence of the republic of Hawaii. That
government would only need to claim from
Hawaii what could not be denied by Us,
or lawfully prevented by the protecting
states. the equal rights of her people to the
franchise with other foreigners. The Japa-
nese would then outvote the rest of us,
and install their own president and legls-
lators. Who could say them nay? Japan is
strong military and naval power, and
we'll able to enforce any not clearly un-
reasonable claim for the rights Of her SUBJ
5ects. 1t cannot be doubted that the amoi-
tions of the japanese in Hawaii would en-
JOY the fullest appropriate support from
their home government. without at all vio-
lating the independence Of this little re-
public. Thus Japan would practically
achieve her aim of making Hawaii a Japa-
nese colony under Japanese control even
though nominally under United States pro-
lection.
This is the menace which now, more than
any other, threatens the influence of the
United States in the Pacific. An immense
commerce is growing up in the Pacific It
Is advancing with gigantic strides toward
colossal magnitude which is to surpass
any ocean commerce now existing Ameri-
ca needs to have and rightly claims the
foremost place in that commerce. Her
thousands Of miles of coast line fronting
this ocean entftle her a that nlaco