East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-11-11
WILL HAWAII Be A JAPANESE COLONY?

Is Hawaii becoming a Japanese
colony? Have the little brown men
of the orient the ability to uproot
Anglo Saxon civilization in the para
disc Of the Pacific? says the Oregon
Daily Journal.
Americans who recently have visit
ed the islands declare that the Japan
ese are rapidly gaining mastery there.
Japanese population already heavily
outnumbers all others, increases the
fastest, and the mikado's immigrants
are getting control of one after an
other of the businesses and profess
slons. Before them, as before swarm
ing locusts, 1t is said that other races
disappear, and beneath the stars and
stripes is growing as truly japanese
colony as any under the Sunburst of
Japan.
"It is a serious and thought-provok-
ing problem" writes Harry Taylor, OF
this city, to his brother Dolph Taylor.
For years the large immigration
from Japan has been a source of APP
prehension to the citizens of the Ha-
waiian territory who care more foI
the supremacy of American principles
and American ideals than for the pros
perity of few sugar planters, and the
time is fast approaching when n seri-
Gus crisis will have to be faced"
New Political issue.
This suggests the political issue that
IS being formulated on race lines.
That 1t has become paramount in Ha-
waiian politics is apparent as the fol
lowing passages from Mr.. Taylor's
letter:
"In his last report to the president
Governor George Il. Carter, giving
echo to the plaintive wail of the sugar
planters, asserts that upon Asiatic la
Dor depends the future prosperity o.
the territory. On the other hand. both
the labor trades council and the mer'
chants association OF Honolulu have
gone on record against the further i'm
portation OF Asiatic laboring men intC
the territory.
1.-The territory of Hawaii is. to al
intents, japanese territory, Japan
ese now number 10000 souls. scatter
ed throughout the entire territory
with representatives in every hamle
and village of the group Their ap
pearance in any town has, as a gen
eral rule, been followed within a shor
time by the departure of American
and others whose labor was undersolC
and whose standard of living was un
dermined by the newcomers.
Pushing Other LibOrers Out.
Until recently the manual an,
.l,g1,I Ia nf thn tgIo v1y Ns,o ir tI,I
hands of Portuguese, Hawaiians anC
Americans Today Japanese ar
prominent as stevedores. fishermen
taro-growers and hack drivers. having
all OF these places because they worl
for lower wages
Twenty years ago several thousan,
Portuguese were brought from III
Madeira and Cape Verde islands 70
the sugar plantations. They were
hard-working, industrious and fruga
people, and while transforming IN
plantations by faithful, consideration
work, provided little by little IN
wherewithal to purchase homes 70
themselves. They raised large families
and presented to their adopted coun
try generation OF young men am
women imbued with American sent
ments. principles and aspirations. Thi
generation, in view of the appallin
death rate of the Hawarans. and tn
rapid increase of the Japanese, wa
the hope OF the territory.
Japanese Undersen Portuguese.
This young generation OF Amer
cans was educated in public schools
They had the temerity to insist tha
$40 month for their labor in the can
fields under tropicai sun was neces
sary to support and educate the
families properly. Plantation manae
ers would not consider such wage
for thousands Of Japanese, who wei