Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-10-18
THE JAPANNINo OF HAWAII.

nearly every quarter OF the globe, none
Is more curious and battling than the
phenomena Witnessed in those little
Islands of the Pacific. which in spite
of Mrs. Dominis and Mr.. Cleveland
are today American territory.
When in 1898 Hawaiian islands were
annexed to the United States. there
was great rejoicing that an import
ant step had been taken toward the
enhancing of American prestige in the
Pacific and the Orient Today. after
the lapse of only nine years. IL is al
serious question in the western states
whether Hawaii. instead Of being n
stage in the progress of American
commercial expansion. Is not merely
n hating place of Oriental labor and
civilization on their wav 10 overwhclm
us.
Within these nine years Hawaii has
become thoroughly Oricntalized. About
rs per cent. of it's population arc
Orientals. JaDanese forming app.oXi.
mntely 30 and Chinese % per cent. Of
the whole. The population being in n
constantly mobile condition. with nm
uninterrupted migration back to the
~ ana to the states of the Pn.
cific slope. and with n 1T eadily flow
ing stream of Japanese into the is
lands. exact figures are lacking. but
the fact is sufficiently established
that fully half the inhabitants of la.
wall are Japanese.
For the most part the Asiatics are
laborcrs on the great sugar .pnntn-
lions, which eXnortcd sugar in 1905
To the value of $35.00O000
Tho Japanese. however. do not con.
tent themselves with worl, on the
plantations. They are In active com
petition with the whites In nearly
every pursuit so that.the artisan the
merchant ana even the professional
man is finding IT more and more diff
ficult to succeed and to maintain his
standard of living. The Japanese
have gone into occupations calling for
the highest degree of technical know
ledge and efficiency and have rovo.
lntionized many of the crafts. They
are excellent carpenters. machinists
PAINTERS. plumbers. engineers They
have displaced white workmcn. who
have been obliged to return TO the
United States
Nor can the white merchants COM
pete with them. Alarmed ut the nros.
nect mechanics and merchants have
invoked every possible means to pro
toct themselves against the aggres-
siyeness or the Japanese. but in vain
for the well-leng of tho territory de.
Ponds unon the prosperitv of the su-
ga interests, and while the nlanters
regret rs much as any one the pre-
pondcrance of the Japanese they can
not permit the enactment of any meas
ure which might antagoniZo the ORR
entails and drive them away.
Grovous as are the results of Jap.
anesc competition in industrial and
mercantile life, they are scarcely
more exasperating than the spirit
which the little brown mon, over
whom we were so enthusiastic only
two short years ago, are manlfcsting
toward Americans. They feel their
oats acutcly They whipped China
They whipped Russia. They possess
Korea. And they have not FORGOTTEN
The gold brick which was handed to
them so artistically at Portsmouth.
Travellers returning from Hawaii
tell many anecdotes illustrating the
Japanese temper there, particularly
among the servants In American
households When woman in Homo
lulu expressed dissatisfaction with
something her Japanese servant had
done. he turned on her and remarked:
To-day | work for YOU; tomorrow you
work for me- That is an epitome
of the Japanese dream-the conquest
of America.
The Hawaiian Japanese are said to
he even more intensely patriotic than
those in Nippon. Their children attend
until , O'Clock the government
schools. schools. whore instruction is
given in English. From . until they
are in the Japanese schools. Ameri.
can missionaries have sought To evan.
gelize the Japanese in Hawaii, but
every Christian church on the islands
has for neighbor temple of Budd.
ha.
Thus is an American territory be-
ing Japanned. The process Is accel.
Grated by the peculiar economic con
ditions. Hawaii being almost wholly
dependent upon single industry not
only -; !. IS 5t -: sc
very subsistence of It's population.
There is work to be done, and the
Asiatics seem to lie the only ones
who can do it, But. instead of i'm
billing American ideals or seeking
American citizenship, they remain in
corrigibly Oriental And apparently
they are in Hawaii to stay. For Ha
wal lis convenient to California.
In the course of his eloquent little
speech to the Athenians on Mars hill
Paul remarked that God hath made
of one blood all nations of men for
to dwell OH all the face of The earth.
and hath determined the bounds of
their habitatiOn " What nrn the
bands of the Decentralization Globe.
HOODWINKED THE SOUTH.
Some time ago Attorney General
Bonapartc held that the States had
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