The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1907-08-22


Japan says she does not vaat Ha-
ua.i. while at the same time she
keeps sending her people 70 the island
5y the hundred. and thousands.
There are a. the present time some
5000 % the loyal subjects Of the
mikado On the island, and these 10
the thinking q some Americans are
o menace ID the interests Of the
United States and are but the i1,rial
step % the confscation OF the group
0s Islands by Japan when favorable
opportunity shall present itself On
the other hand. II We are 70 take
Japan word for IL a. expressed by
her most prominent and Influential
statesmen, Japan has no more thought
u gaining possession Of this outpost
Of Columbia In the Pacific than She
has OF going still farther vest sni an
rexing California. a thing which some
alarmists at San Francisco are TRYING
% make themselves believe is posi-
bic
Il "a not only claimed that Japan is
encouraging her people 10 settle in
Hawaii but that she is sending for
me- soldiers there who are prepared
70 take orders from representatives
of their emperor in preparation for
war However much or little there
may be In all this talk. it is certain
that Hawaii is rapidly being Japanned
The little. aggressive brown men out
number the whites seven 10 one
There are more than $1,000 Chinese
and only about 5000 of other people
But when one talks OF conquest, mill
tary or commercial one counts only
the able bodied men. men who can
carry a hoe or a gun. WELD a sword
Or a peu-and OF these there are more
than 80. 900 and perhaps SO OO0 Japa-
nese. forming from 81 TO 50 per cent.
Of the male population With the 90
900 Chinese men three -fourths OF all
the people capable of performing the
duties Of a soldier are Asiatics OF
whites. the men WhO are sworn TO de-
fsnd American interests. there are
fewer than 10000. and many Of these
ara Portuguese and other Europeans
without concern in the glory 0f the
stars and Stripes
II IL apparent that in Hawaii the
balance Of manual strength lies with
the japanese Joined by his brethren
Of the queue. IL would mean threc to
one against all others here. and seven
Or more % one against the whites.
Rather a long shot for Uncle Sam
70 play In these troubl0us times. even
il the race Is straight and % the
speediest.
But what are the Japanese doing
hsre7 One may listen 10 strange
stories Of honest Iaborers assembled
by company and regiment in moOnlit
fields. OF drills at midnight in lonely
tales OF varlike preparations by the
mikado's men In Hawaii now. Sift
them and you have but a thin sub
stance for the ominous mass said 10
shadow our sovereignty. Perhaps q
band OF Pake youths, Chinese cadets
in Christian schools, fash their tin
bayonets in the cool Of the evening
out Kalihi way or wave their pewter
swords under the plumy palms or in
the clearings Of the sugar and paddy
fields.
Ask Gov. Carter or the police and
they smile Indulgently, as IL to say
many have been bevitched BY the sea
OF kimonos and wooden clogs But
whisper 20 Bob Kidd. a leading
journalist here, or 20 "ScOtty." tht
leading dispensary proprietor, or to 4
hundred others not helping to rule ths
islands. and they will draw vivid pic
lures OF what they have seen Differ
ences OF opinion are many but tbs
man in the street here believes Japar
iust waits 20 take into her nav thes'
fair coral dots. that the ambition o
Nippon is 70 ioat the red ball on th'
white field over Capt. Cooks discoy
cry, and that every lastsmother's sor
OF Japan will arise at a presrrange,
signal and seize the government
These IDEAS have become prevalen
only since the peace between Russi;
and Japan vas made. They arcs,
primarily from Japan's sudden bouuC
into the family OF the great nations
and her startling exhibition of mill
| tary and commercial genius in wa
and peace since the century began.
Whereas until few years ago IN,
entire importation OF japanese was o
| the laboring class. now a dlferen
kind enters. And this despite the de
sires OF the sugar planters, who foste
the immigration. To understand thi
one must go a little into the histor,
OF the japanese movement 70 Hawaii
There is little else grown IN Hawai-