Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-08

staring him in the face or with a time
order hot off the eastern wires for several
carloads of produce, approaches an Asatic
employment agency, the boss may an
nounce with a cunning grin:
Boys all busy today, or No time TO
talk today; better go on
The upshot of this Gripping system is
that at this writing hundreds of fruit
ranches In California are under lease, or
are actually owned by japanese capitalists
who never have seen and never intend TO
see the shores Of America. In the city of
san Francisco at the time OF its destruction
small industries, such as laundries, curio
shops and shops for making and selling
women's waists and light dresses, shoe re-
pairing and barbering were virtually mo-
nopolized by Japanese. This state OF affairs
had arisen in Ave years.
When American families are crowded
on farms where shall we get the new blood
that vtvihes the population Of the cities?
When the time comes that the farms are
worked by Japanese coolies and white land
owners are nonresident; when tracts of the
republic are owned In Japan; when these
tracts have become Japanese settlements
where the population bear enthusiastic
allegiance to the emperor Of Japan, then
real trouble will begin for the United
States Of America"
Conditions in Hawaii.
To observe in full bloom the Japanese
menace now In its infancy on the Pacific
coast 1t is only necessary to consider the
condition of the Hawaiian islands When
the paradise of the Pacific" came under
the dominion of the United States it was
expected American workingmen would there
find tempting opportunities for their skin
and industry and in time become the dom
inant race on the islands. Exactly the
opposite result was produced. While work.
ingmen are as scarce as snowballs in the
tropics, the Japs control the islands in
dustrially and commercially. as completely
as If the sunburst OF Nippon instead of the
Stars and Stripes hoated from the flag
staffs OF Honolulu.
A stan correspondent OF the New York
Times, who visited the islands last winter.
draws picture of conditions there which
serves to explain the opposition OF Cali
tornians. In part, he says:
For the great question which Is now feed
ing the minds of the island philosopher.
and which bids fair to afford them AZ
abundant diet for some time to come, Is
precisely this question in race supremacy
and although II has come to be pretty We
understood that the predominating race
upon the islands today Is the American.
and that the predominating culture-what
little there isis Anglo-saxon. yet It is far
from an established certainty that such
viii be the case at the end OF the next two
decades when the first generation Of Japa-
nese born into American citizenship-oh-
springs Of the 10000 Japanese already in
tglandq-QOUnau 10
the influence OF Its Asiatic civilization to
bear upon the ballot box. Men OF sound
judgment, like Judge Sanford B. Dole.
president Of the provisional republic and
nrst governor OF the territory. and the lead
ing minds In the oligarchy OF sugar men.
are coming TO question II the hopes OF an
island paradise have not been built upon
foundation OF sand; II, IN the thoughtIess
pursuit OF dividends. the great planters
have not brought in for field laborers a
people who In a few years more will 40
overwhelmingly outnumber the combined
forces Of all the other natlonllities which
can be arrayed against them In the Islands
as TO successfully dominate the future OF
the territory. And even IN Hawaii the sub
sutution Of japanese for American civilian
''oh u not 10 De regarded With equanimity.
Evil Wrought by Planters.
Already the owners OF the great sugar
Observation-Disclosures which so overshadow ali
others as TO place them for the time being
beyond the scope OF discussion-have come
to realize the evil which they have brous ht
down upon themselves by inviting a Japa-
nese Invasion and are now anxiously look
Ing about for desirable Immigrants from
europe and America by whom they can re-
place their Asiats labor. But tkSush the