The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-19

/ Bile.
But Japan wants an offset to our claim
that American trade is not being fairly
treated in Manchuria. Further, the Jap
anese do not want extreme measures
taken against their seal poachers in the
Aleutlan Archipelago. In default of a
better argument, they have picked up
this absurd and technical plea that Jap
anese children meet with diserlmina-
ton in the public schools Of San Fran
cisco.
There is no discrimination The segre-
CATION of Japanese students in one school
Is police regulation due to the fact
that they are not children in the true
sense. As a rule they range in years
from 10 to %. 1t is not fit that they
should be permitted to associate with
children of average school age and it
will not be permitted.
tSan Francisco Chronicle, November il,
OUR JAPANESE COLONY-HAWAII
! ALREADY DOMINATED BY AN ASH
ATTIC CIVILIZATION.
Out of $4,000 inhabitants found In the
Hawaiian Islands in 1900 but $3.50 were
Caucasians. There We're S6,72S Asiatics,
| of whom gill were Japanese. The re-
mainder were of the perishlng races. OF
the male population over is years of age,
g. 444 were Asiatics, out of a total of So =
1876, and of these 1878 were japanese.
From 1900 to 1905 the arrivals of aliens
IN the Islands were 4S,0S6 Asiatcs and
1925 of all other nationalities. or the Ash
atics, 3S,029 were Japanese The depart
ures of Asiatics, however. during thar
period exceeded the arrivals by 4421, and
the departures of Japanese exceeded the
arrivals by 1884 OF the 42,913. japanese
who left Hawaii between June 80, 1900,
and december 81, 1905, an unknown num-
ber-larger than 20,G41-came to the Pa
CHIC coast This was in opposition to the
EFFORTS OF the Japanese consul. acting I'M
der orders from the Japanese govern
ment. The japanese are getting to be re-
CARELESS even of their own government,
and with increasing vogor express their
determination TO go where they please
AS matters now stand, the Chinese pom
ulatlon is decreasing, the Koreans are in
oreasing, and the Japanese probably
about hold their own, their tendency be-
ing TO make Hawaii halfway house to
this coast, rigorous and systematic re-
cruiting being evidently in progress.
The total result of the oriental move
ment has been to produce a great dearth
or labor on the sugar plantations. with
q 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
of agricultural labor is not SO much due
to the departure of orientals as to their
engaging In occupations other than those
for which they were imported. OF those
engaged in domestic service, laundries,
restaurants, barber shops and similar oc-
equations 5097 per cent were Asiatic: Of
those engaged in trade and transporta-
ton 4S.6S per cent were Asiatics. and of
those in mechanical pursuits 1917 per
cent. OF the total engaged In gainful
occupations 1853 per cent were Asiatic,
the Japanese greatly preponderating
According to a report of the Omitted
States Commissioner of Labor, published
in the September bulletin of the bureau.
the orientals, and especially the Japan
csc, are now in almost complete control
or the clothing trades, boots and Shoes
food products, and of the production of
coffee and rice. They are rapidly get
ting control of all the building trades
and tin work. White mechanics are
leaving the islands. In twenty-six occu-
pations for which the territory REQUIRES
licenses there were 2529 Chinese and Jap
anese license holders to 1929 of all other
nationalities. AS long ago as 1899 there
were 1853 Asiatic holders of merchants IL
censes to 300 of all other natonalities.
mere Is now no merchandising license
required, so that exact figures cannot
be given, but the report states that the
Asiatics are rapidly acquiring a monopoly
of the smaller retail trade They have
not yet done much In the finer retail
trade requiring large capital or in the
wholesale trade, but that is coming
The Japanese have capital, and Japan
csc capitalists recognize that there is "a
Jobbing trade all ready for them to take
over. That the commerce of Hawaii will
soon be as completely in the hands of the
Chinese and Japanese as that of the
Straits Settlements ic
The agricultural industries, except sugar
are now substantially in the hands of ori-
entails, either as tenants or owners. They
are already beginning in the sugar indus
try, not as yet as owners or lessees, but
as contractors for the production of cane
As the Japanese, whenever they are
ready. can command both the capital and
technical skill, it SENS inevitable that the
entire sugar industry will in time pass
into their hands-at first as contractors,
next as lessees, and finally, very likely
as owners. 1t seems inevitable because
race which will work long hours and
have a low standard OF life can, and
therefore will. economically exterminate
any race which has high standard of
life, and insists on working short hours
The mass of the Hawaiian population is
non-Caucasian. or the non Cauea SLAMS
the japanese is the dominant race. No
human power can long prevent the as
simialtion of the civilization of any coun-
try to that of the mass OF it's lnhabit-
ants. For all practical purposes Hawaii
is today a Japanese colony.
What we fighting for on this coast
is that California and Oregon and Wash
ington shall not become what the terri
tory of Hawaii now is. If the Japanese
are permitted to come here freely moth
ing can prevent that except revolution
and massacre which would be certain
No words can describe the intensity of
the hatred with which the white mechan-
les and small merchants of Hawaii re-
gard the Japanese who have taken their
work from them by dong it at prices for
which they cannot do it except by ac-
cepting the japanese standard of life.
Our workingmen hate the Japanese be-
cause they fear they will supplant them
The Hawaiian wortingmen hate them
because they have already been supplant-
ed Being but a small minority of the
population the whites of Hawaii cannot
help themselves. The white men of the
Pacific coast are determined that the orr
entails shall never be enabled to do here
that which they have already accom-
by whatever measures are found neces-
sary.
What we are now endeavoring is to
prevent 1t by such wise action on the
part OF our own and the Japanese govern
ment as shall keep the races apart. Just
now our race feeling has shown itself in
the provision that the children of the
races shall be kept separate in the
schools. 1t is said that the Japanese
will contest 1t in the courts. and If de.
feated there will make 1t an ''interna-
tional question. We trust they will not
do so. It would be found that there Is
TO power on earth which could compel