The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-07-19

than sugar Out OF $36 900 600 OF OK
ports year $35,O00,O00 is from the
cane Cheap. efficient labor is the
basis OF cane growing At first the
planters employed Kanakas, but that
race is dying and with the present
extended domain in cane forms less
than a seventh of the laborerV neces
sary. Then came an era of Chinese.
They were cheap. and. like their sue.
cessors. the Japanese. rarely brought
families This lessened the cost of
transportation. After while the
planters grew fearful of the single
race problem. for with their secret
societies and family ties the Chinese,
united threatened to raise wages.
Then began the real effort ; ter Japa-
nese. A formal convention was finally
entered into between the kingdom Of
Hawaii and the empire of Japan as to
immigration. This was in 1856, and
wear later Chinese were excluded
by the Hawaiian king and his advis.
Crs.
Japanese rushed in then by the tens
Of thousands
While one has no foundation. except
that vague. intangible enc of suspi-
cion and probability to affirm that
the Japanese war department is send
ing to American territory "A body of
soldiers. yet il is certain that there
would he no hesitation on her part
In grasping promptly whatever advan.
tagcs this situation offered her in
event Of the actual outbreak OF hos.
Titles. Moreover. ii is absolutely GER
tain that tho intelligence office of the
japanese war department avails itself
of the opportunity afforded to send it's
spies among the immigrants when
ever /. seems worth while and that
many soldiers or former soldiers
qualified by their special training as
well as their racial characteristics
for such work are engaged i'm a prac-
tical espionage which in the aggre.
gate must supply TO the Office data of
vast importance.
At the suggestion of Gov Carter a
| correspondent of the New York Her.
, aid interviewed Mr.. c. Shiozawa. the
proprietor and editor of the Hawaii
Shimpo the most influential daily
newspaper printed in Japanese here.
| lie has been i'm Hawaii 10 years. is a
| gentleman by birth and has brother
a major on the general stan of the
army. lie said:
The Japanese in Hawaii are here
| solely because they can make more
money than at home. Plantation
| hands now receive on an average SIS
a month. II is too little but it is
more than they pay in Japan. There,
! fore they come here in hopes of say.
| ing enough to return home and be.
| come farmers on their own account
Few intend to remain here. There
! are no inducements after the immi.
! grant has amassed his tiny compet
ency. You refuse us citizenship, con
! ditlons on the plantation are humili.
ating and disagreeable and the plant.
er seeks only to grind all the energy
! possible from our people. Under the
! new understanding between the Unit.
! ed States and Japan no passports are
TO be issued TO Japanese iaborers to
go TO the mainland of America. nor
are any TO be permitted 10 go there
from Hawaii. Except for the few
who will emigrate from here to Cana.
da and Mexico in the endcavor to
smuggle themselves into the United
States the Japanese population of this
territory will not decrease unless ex.
lies return TO their own country.
Il calculate there are 10000 Japa.
nese here now. OF whom 10000 are
plantation laborers. This is enough.
There IS hardly work now to 20
round. OF course the planters will
encourage an unnatural immigration,
so as 10 flood the market with labor
and force and keep wages down. !
recommend that the Japanese govern.
mont refuse to allow more Japanese
to come here"