The Redwood gazette., 1897-05-13
TO GRAB HAWAIIl
Japanese Pouring Into the Is
lands.


lands.
When the cruiser Phi1adel-
phia was despatched to Homo
lulu there was a very general
feeling of satisfaction through
ont all the Pacific coast States.
That sentiment was due to the
belief that the Japanese Govern
ment has for months been
steadily pouring subjects of
Japan into the Islands, in order
to getcontrol of political affairs,
and eventually gain possession
of Hawaii.
Men familiar with affairs in
Hawaii say that it has been the
intention of the Japanese Gov
ernment 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 demand for them the same
political rights as the natives
enjoy. Even with limited suf-
frage they would soon be in
practical control of the Govern
1nent, and it's affairs would be
administered as the Mikado's
Government saw fit. And
should some crisis arise, such
as diplomacyc can always create,
Japan would step in and take
actual possession. A gentle
man who spent nearly all of
last year in Hawaii says that
during his stay there the Jap
anese Government has been
simply pouring its people into
the islands. There was no de-
mand for plantation labor, as
the sugar plantations had time
contracts not yet worked out
with all the laborers they will
need for months to come.
Many of the new arrivals evi-
dently were not accustomed to
work, and they did not attempt
to find work after they landed
in Hawaii. They were young
men, with no funds of their
own, and yet they were support
ed in idleness, apparently by
the same power that sent them
there.
Chief Justice Judd of Hawaii
gives the number of Japanese
in the Islands as "a, 400, of Chi
nese 21,6OO, and of Hawaiian
natives $1,000. He says that
recently 1,500 Japanese were
landed in one week and that
the regular increase has beer
from 1900 to 1000 a month. Al
this rate, he says, "It will not
| be long until they have over
run the islands. And what we
most fear then is that they will
think that they ought to have
political supremacy
A gentleman of this city
whose business makes it nee
, essary for him to spend r,aucl
time in Japan, takes all ever
more startling view of the cas'
i than those already quoted, HI
{. spends every year from thre'
to six months among the Jap
anese, living intimately will
them in their houses and goinE
with them to far inland villages
He has been doing this for 81
a many years. that he know
them as he knows his owl
countrymen. He said to-day
after he had read about the send
ing Of two Japanese warship
to Hawaii:
at has been evident to m
for a long time that the Japan
ese intended to take Hawaii
and to do it gradually, in jus
this sly, stealthy way. The.
are amazingly ambitious, as
i nation, they want to becom
: the conquerors of the world
+ + But to do that sort of a thin,
!: takes much revenue, and the
. are planning to spread out am
: seize whatever they can la.
hands on which will bring il
revenue without much outlay
? And this sort of colonization
job which they have been prac
tising on Hawaii is the yer
cheapest way of acquiring ter
ritory. They know how t
smile and bow and be SO es
quisitely polite as to disguis
their real intention, whethe
that be grabbing territory O
making foreigner pay thre
times it's value for a piece O
pottery. But they never forge
for a moment what they want
and let them get as much a
one finger on it and they neve