The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-11-25
The Call says editorially:

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these 43, 1853 were japanese. From 1906
to 1905, the arrivals of aliens in the ISL
ands were 4S,OS6 Asiatics and 1.726 OF
| all other nationalities. OF the Asiatics
So O29 were japanese. The departures
of Asiatics, however during that period
exceeded the arrivals by 4421, and the
departures of japanese exceeded the
arrivals by 1884 OF the 42,313 japanese
who left Hawaii between June 80, 1900
and December 81, 1905, an unknown
| number larger than 20,641, came to the
Pacific Coast This was IN opposition
! to the efforts of the japanese Consul
acting under orders from the Japanese
| Government. The japanese are get
ting TO be regardless even of their own
Government and with increasing vfgor
express their determination to go where
they please. AS matters now stand the
Chinese population is decreasing, the
Koreans are increasing and the Jap
anese, probably, about hold their own,
their tendency being to make Hawaii
a halfway house to this Coast, rigor-
Gus and systematic recruiting being
evidently in progress.
The total result of the Oriental move"
ment has been to produce great dearth
Oh ldDOT Oh the sugar pIdiltoliOi Will
corresponding decrease of profit in
their operation. Not only are higher
wages paid than formerly, and better
living and quarters furnished but there
are at times serious losses from lack
of ability to get labor at any price.
This shortage of agricultural labor is
not so much due to the departure of
Orientals as to their engaging in oc-
equations other than those for which
they were imported. OF those engaged
in domestic service, laundries, restau-
rants, barber shops and similar occu-
pations 50.97 per cent. were Asiatic; of
those engaged in trade and transporta
ton 4S.6S per cent. We're Asiatics, and
of those in mechanical pursuits 1917
per cent. OF the total engaged in gain
full occupations 1853 per cent, were
Asiatic, the Japanese greatly prepond-
Grating. According to a report of the
United States Commissioner of Labor
published in the September Bulletin OF
the Bureau, the Orienta1s, and especial
ly the japanese, are now in almost
complete control Of the clothing trades,
boots and shoes. food products and of
the production of coffee and rice. They
are rapidly getting control of all the
building trades and tin works. White
mechanics are leaving the islands. In
twenty-six occupations for which the
Territory requires licenses there were
1929 Chinese and japanese license hold
ers to 1929 of all other nationalities.
AS long ago as 1899 there were 753 Asia
tic holders of merchants license to $50
of all other nationalities. There is now
no merchandising license required so
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the report states that the Asiatics are
rapidly acquiring a monopoly OF the
smaller retail trade. The have not yet
done much in the finer retail trade re-
quiring large capital or in the whole
sale trade but that is coming. The
japanese have capital and Japanese
capitalists recognize that there is a
jobbing trade all ready for them to
take over. That the commerce of Ha-
waii will soon be as completely in the
hands of the Chinese and japanese az
that of the Straits Settlements now is
inevitable. The agricultural industries,
except sugar are now substantially in
the hands of Orientals, either as ten
ants or owners. They are already be-
ginning in the sugar industry, not, as
yet, as owners or lessees. but as con-
tractors for the production of cane AS
the Japanese, whenever they are ready,
can command both the capital and
technical skill it seems inevitable that
the entire sugar industry will in time
pass into their hands, at first as con-
tractors, next as lessees, and finally,
very likely, as owners. It seems newt
able because race which will work
ong hours and have a low standard
II life can-and therefore will-econom-
cally exterminate any race which has
| high standard of life, and insists on
working short hours The mass of the
Hawaiian population is Caucasian,
II the non-Caucasfans the japanese is
he dominant race. No human power
an long prevent the assimilati of the
lVll1zation of any country to that of
he mass of it's inhabitants For a ,
PRACTICAL purposes Hawaii is TODAY a
japanese colony.
What We are fighting for on this
'oast is that California and Oregon and
shall not become what the
'erritory of Hawaii now is. If the
japanese are permitted to come here s
RELY nothing can prevent that except
evolution and massacre, which would s
re certain. No words can describe the
Intensity of the hatred with which the
white mechanics and small merchants
+ Hawaii regard the Japanese, who
ave taken their work from them by
DING it at prices for which they can
lot do it except by accepting the Jap
nese standard of life. Our working 7
hen hate the Japanese because they
ear they Will supplant them. The
hawaiian workingmen hate them be-
ause they have already been supplant-
d Being but a small minority of the
equation the whites of Hawaii can q
ot help themselves. The white men r
f the Pacific Coast are determined :.
hat the Orientals shall never be en- +
bIed to do here that which they have n
iready accomplished in Hawaii It +
Till be prevented by whatever meas n
res are found necessary. What we are o
ow endeavorfng is to prevent it by q
lcn wise action on the part of our own T
nj the japanese government as shall n