The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-14

found that he owes his fellow iaborcrs money
and mas been gambling,
toms, In hpi Hiis t St,pY hS s,os1 sStS 20 4 . hospital H%n and SddI a
templo OF their own In tho country further
DSSK they form little settlements by, them,
IN preference to other garments. They also use
Sahansso tools. In several remote places II IL
the pIn ant tbsSlyandry Is practieod' az On nm S9mS %
as Held hands. Tho little brown creatures tie
up their hair In handkerchiefs so that the dust
with the men. The manager Of one Of the plan
hod t says that the gravest trouble he mas
women. fhcy came In from The fields one night
Spitung at ono another. Screechinp and CRYING:
wor Inc TmHT ,T not one Of them would y 70 gpo 5p
lumber had in some. way mado herself OBJ
noSions: This ono he kept at the mill and then
With the exception Of their desire to learn
d diSIIiiS;iionT They 5s, TilI not readily FIyS ~ th CIR
tho island Of. Hawaii there arc 1000 Of them.
they, arc only exceeded in number by the ma,
them. Tho Chinese arc already yielding. The
ninrrUS hawEiiens nave heretofore hnt Re, been an sm,
are now taking their places. In the corners OF
many cane fields what seem to be the grass hqts
Japanese, 6ungalows. Apparently they know
how TO, draw more sustcnance from rice and
men ana 0r1ed sen weed tnnn 90 inc SnlntbS.
Ihcy also have In many places their own doc
tors. In the Kona district one frequently meets
the Japanese doctor riding furiously fifteen
his saddiebag, for aii the world like the Amcri-
can country doctor OF a generation ago.
we'll as on the plantations. lie Is more ag-
gressivo and. disagrocable md. anxious, for
trouble. As Honolulu is the port to which all
the scum should settle there and remain. An
American merchant summarized the oblec-
tioas and pre 81 Another AmSrlcan
said, the whole trouble was that the nation. had
the ,, big head; but tG ,n would pld,s be s%lildrdigsh right % SftGE G ,bsrS
are many Japanese merchants In Honolulu,
their commercial standing is not good. They
can DO made between them and tho Chinese
merchants. The credit Of the Chinese mer-
chants Is unimpcGchable ,
about their share in developing the natural
wealth OF the islands. THIS Is true. They
%tations. in building roads, and in clearing coffee
3ungles: But the other side was put by n mem
Der Of President nole's Cabinet in this way:
these Japanese. They come hero because they
do infinitely better than at home. have seen
contented Il they got a bare subsistence from
the land. Their wages are ten, yen or about
SSmonntss to- SIS a month. That It Is more Nor than
they need for subsistence is shown by what they
send home. Every month from $4,000, to
embrace the opportunities offered them here
and after their contracts are up do oven bot
ter. So, while we acknowledge the benefit
that Japanese labor has been to Hawaii. We
want 1t remembered that Hawaii has given that
labor opportunities which it could never have
at home. We welcomed them here. but wheI
they began to come in such numbers that thcy
soon would have had the islands, 1t was neces
sary for us to call n halt. II Hawaii had no
been an inviting field for Japanese colonization
we would had have no immigration controversy
and Japan would have made no protest to tn,
United Ststos against annexation"