The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-03-08

upon the American market through
! the treaty of reciprocity of 1875, as
| saults upon which We're constantly be
! ing made by the sugar interests of tn,
| South, We're not content with lettins
well enough alone. and in 1892 enter
| ed upon the line of action which was
| at the bottom of the present japanese
| status in the Islands. The history OF
| their coup d'etat in overthrowing the
island monarchy and the establish
ment of a provisional republic with
the consequent propaganda for an
| nexation to the United States is too
we'll known to need repetition. These
! points only have survived in interest:
The planters got the security of mar
ket which they fought for.
The fear that annexation would in
some way bar Japanese immigration
flooded the islands with thousands who
We're anxious to land before it took
place.
The repeal of the contract law con-
sequent upon annexation took from
the planters the means by which they
had so successfully managed the Jap
anese in the past. allowing the la
borers to leave the plantations when
they wished, to strike when they felt
inclined. and to wander away to the
cities and to engage in other trades,
to the permanent injury of white labor.
Further than this, the Japanese emf
grants, once freed of the idea that
under the American flag the islands
would be closed to them, and appre-
ciating the fact that under the new
regime they would be more at liberty
to go where and to do what they
,,1a 1ay h. I'D I'D
to flock in until at the present time
a conservative estimate places their
number in the group at 10000. These
conditions the planters did not fore
see, but it may be said that there is
not planter on the islands today.
however self-centered, who does not
appreciate their present significance.
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With a total population of 100 900.
10000, or A per cent, of whom are
Japanese, and over $4,000. or Is per
cent, Chinese, to say nothing of sew
eral thousand Koreans who have re-
Gently come in, the preponderance of
the Asiatic over the native and West
ern elements Is sufficiently marked to
be startling. And the preponderance
is increasing rather than decreasing.
While the steady flow of Japanese and
Korean immigrants is maintained-the
Chinese are now excluded by the ex-
tension of the Geary act to the Ter
ritory-the increase in the Caucasian
population is slowly immigration al
most at standstill-while that of the
native population long ago ceased. In
addition to the 10000 natives, the nom
Asiatic population is made up of 49,
900 Portuguese, 10000 Porto Ricans.
imported in 1900; HOO Germans, 100
British, 100 French. and 1000 Amer
leans, with a sprinkling of Italians,
Galicians, Slavs, and American ne
groes. To maintain the supremacy of
Western culture over Eastern in face
of these facts Is the Herculean task
to which the best element of Euro
it's shoulders. The contest bids fair
to be a battle royal.
(Strange as it may seem to CONT
Mental American who has been bred
up to condemn the Chinaman whom
he meets in the States in Hawaii he is
praised, and his presence in
the islands welcomed. This fact arises
doubtless from the fact that the Chi |
nese were in the islands before the |
Western element entered in large num- |
bers, that they have always been a |
peaceful, industrious, and saving peo-
pie and tend to Americanize far more |
readily than either the Japs or Kore- |
ans. Many of the Chinese have mar |
RED kanaka women, and their children |
form what is universally conceded to |
De the most capable class which |
springs from mixed marriages with |
he natives The Chinese in Hawaii |
Ire extremely individual and devoid |
If that intense national feeling which /
'orbids the japanese, wherever he may |
be, from ever becoming anything but |
/ loyal subject of the Mikado. Many |
IF the Chinese merchants in Honolu- |
u maintain elegant houses, have cut |
IF their cues, raised families of Chi
lese or half-caste children, and re-
;ard that as their home and the Amer
can flag as their own. But not so
he Jap, and therein lies the cause
# the fear and hatred which the West
,rn element entertains for him.
In the Eastern States the Jap as he
appears in Hawaii is never seen, and
IN the Pacific Coast only occasionally.
n the islands he presents himself un-
Ter pristine conditions. BY the time
lie has spent his apprenticeship in
American ways in Hawaii-as most do
Who go to the coast-he appears on
continental soil an improved being.
But in Hawaii he is Asiatic to the
ore. He dwells apart, if he is in the
ities-and he is there to the number
# COCOON his own quarter, among |
lis kindred and fellow-countrymen, |,
unimpaired all Of his native
ways, and venturing forth only in |
quest of the almighty dollar. He has
lis own theaters and schools and
hurches. and his own doctors; he
,atronizes only his own shops. He has
under the supervision of
lis government. he is in constant con-
act with it. he returns at the age of
0 to serve his time in the army or
avy, and then to re-emigrate. He
ever forgets his early ways and his |
arly teaching. He is canny. deceit
ul, and Enthusiastically. On the plan
ations he has organizations which in |