The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1897-05-04
WANTS To ANNEX
Japanese Resident Says
United States is Best.
Believes There Are Enough Labor
ers Here-Minister COoper's Act
ion Should be Approved.

The news received by the China yes
terday regarding the departure Of the
warship Naniwa for Honolulu seems
TO have affected people differently. In
the main it has inspired the japanese
with the hope that their countrymen
will be permitted TO land here without
restraint, and that their claims will be
allowed or the guns of the warship
will blow the bloomin' country TO the
demnition bow-wows. But there are
others. One of them said last night:
The best thing the people can do is
to turn in and work for annexation to
the United States. No other country Of
fers the same inducement for your sta
pie, and the success or failure of the
product means the success or failure of
the people in Hawaii. You cannot find
market for sugar in Canada, because
the demand is small, though l have
heard that Messrs. Hind and Kynners-
ly ship some of their sugar there. Eng
land is no good, because it can buy
sugar cheaper. Japan? No, indeed
But 1 am willing to assert that if Jap
an offered a higher price for Hawaiian
sugar than the United States, some of
the planters would be willing to go
there for annexation. After all, it is
Uncle Sans Illuminated mental an
guish plasters that makes the little
Hawaiian world go round
so far as the Japanese are con-
cerned-I mean the Japanese in Ha-
waii-there is no love in their breasts
for the mother country. They are here
for the dollars they can earn and take
back with them So long as they are
here they don't care a spoonful of SOya
what becomes of Japan. For that rea-
son, l say it is best for them to work
for annexation to the United States.
The treaty of annexation would not af-
feet those who are here, and any treaty
afterward or the abrOgation of the eX
isting treaty between Hawaii and Jap
an does not mean that the Japanese
who are here now would have to re-
turn. and if ii kept others from COM
ing here. so much the better for those
who are on the ground.
when l say our people are not
patriotic. ! do not refer to those who
are under the Japanese authorities in
their native country. Under those con-
ditions, they are enthusiastically so,
because they are taught to believe that
what the Government does is for their
interest. They believe they are doing
all right and stand UP for the Govern
ment.
But let them get away from that at
OH ncf oil
the love they had for their Govern
ment. If further Japanese immigra
ton can be stopped, am in favor of it.
There is Japanese labor enough here
now. and the idea of colonizing on the
plan that is being carried out here
amounts to nothing. A colony without
capital cannot hope to make success
of it, and there are not 1000 Jap
aneSe in Hawaii with capital repre-
seEting three figures. / am in favor of
coloniZing as our Government has
started out in Mexico and Guatemala;
there I look for a successful ending,
but I never hope to find ii here. Sup
pose the Hawaiian Government would
decide to abrogate the treaty. as a re-
suit of the Japanese Government send
ing a commissioner here to investi-
gate the returning of the immigrants
do YOU think that 1t would mean that
the Japanese. who are now here. would
be returned? A few years ago Japan
was in position. practically. to die
tate to Hawaii in the matter of labor.
but not so now. When Mr.. Fugii told
the Government that unless the Jap
anese wera given the same rights of
franchise as other aliens, otherwise he |
would ask for the abrogation of the |
treaty and the return of the laborers |
he knew what he was doing. We can |
not do this now, because we know you |
can get all the Chinese your planters |
wish.
''In my letters today I received no. !
tification that the Naniwa is on her |
way here. and that she has on board.
besides the commissioner. lot of |
reporters and three of the
rejected immigrants. I suppose this
means that our Government will insist
upon these men being admitted. and
hey intend having the matter properly
reported in the Japanese newspapers.
That won't amount to anything. Min
ster Cooper was right. and my advice
% the commissioner is to make his in
approve of everything
lone by Minister Cooper, and then go
home. If they abrogate the treaty and
ell the laborers to go home, I do not
,elieve they will go. The planters hold
he contracts and can hold the labor
rs"