The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1903-07-08


at first the same tendency that the
Chinese have shown to remain for
few years and then return to japan
with the money that they have saved.
VI late years, however, they exhibit
more and more tendency to become
permanent settlers in the islands.
They are also bringing over larger
proportion of japanese women. and
their children are attending the Ha-
waiian schools along with the white
and Hawaiian children, and arc thus
being brought up amid surroundings
and with ideas that would make thom
practically aliens if they should return
to Japan.
JOHNNIE AND JAP COMPARED.
The Japanese make fairly good plan
tation laborcrs. though some of the
planters would prefer Chinese. The
Chinaman is usually the more steady
and reliable, but the less energetic la
borcr OF the two, and is preferred for
irrigation and cane cutting. The Jap
has greater physical strength, and is
the better man for leading or for gen.
eral roustabout work in the mill. He
IS more cleanly about his person and
tidy about his surroundings, and
adopts more readily all the superficial
tokens Of Caucasian civilization. He
wears European clothing, carries a
watch and seeks most eagerly for va
riety in life. He is constantly visit.
ing new places and trying his hand at
new trades. He represents the radi-
cal, the Chinaman the conservative
side OF Oriental character. His vices
are more Occidental than those of the
Chinese. He docs net fail victim
to opium Or the unnatural practices Of
the latter, bus is fond Of intoxicants.
The Jap makes more demands upon q
plantation manager in the way of quar-
ters and general conveniences for liy-
ing than does the Chinaman. Many
OF them have families and req uire in
dividual apartments. They prefer to
board in small companies, upon cot
tage system, while the Chinese like to
herd together in large barracks. The
one thing that the Japanese insist
upon above everything else is plenty
of water for their daily baths, aud
there have been many clashes between
them and the Porto Ricans employed
on the same plantations largely be-
esuse the Japs object to the disregard
for cleanliness shown by the Porto
Roans, and because the Japanese, on
the other hand, have o native disre-
gard for proprietios of costume aud
occasionally walk about their CAMPS in
an absence Of attire chat way oharac.
teristic Of Adam and Eve in the Gar
den of Eden.
FEAR OF JAPANESE CONTROL.
In concluding his report Mr.. Wright
says: "At present laissez faire pol
icy is being pursued, which-so far as
present tendencies indicate-wi re-
suit in few years in making the is
lands practically Japanese. These
people arc settling in the country with
their families to greater extent thar
formerly and, though hitherto trans
lent, show q tendency to become
permanent population. In some re-
speots ey might make desirable citi.
ze-a, as they readily adopt Occidental
habits, but they do not amalgamate
with Caucasians, and are intensely
alien in their sympathies, religion and
customs.
There is no doubt Of the rapid in
crease Of the Japanese population
through births. 1t is yet too early to
determine what tho attitude Of these
Hawaiian born Japanese will be to-
ward their birthplace in case many of
them remain permanently in the is
lands, but this is a subject that prom
ises complications in the future in the
matter of citizenship, unless some sys-
tenn of repistry is adopted sufficie utly
exact to distinguish them from immi.
grant Japanese. A still more embar-
RAISING situation would be created
should this Oriental population ulti.
mately get control of the local govern.
ment, by means Of institutions es,ab.
lished by Americans, and employ their
racial solidarity to maintain thom-
selves in power in the territory"
r. NJ. l..