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

Japan says she does not want Ila-
wall while at thc same time she
kecps sending her people to the island
by the hundreds and thousands.
There are at the present time some
$4,000 OF the loyal subjects Ct the
mihado on the island and these to
the thinking OF some Americans. are
menace TO the interests Cf the
United States and are but the Initial
step to the connscation of the group
Of islands by Japan when favorable
opportunity shall present itself. On
the other hand. IL we are to take
lapaa's word for II as expressed by
her most prominent and influential
a.atcEmen. Japan has no more thought
lt gaining possession of this outpost
Of Columbia in the Pacific than she
has OF going still farther west and an
ucNing California, thing which, some
alaymists at San Francisco are trying
to make themselves believe is possi-
BILE
II is not only claimed that Japan is
encouraging her people 10 settle i'm
Hawaii. hut that she is sending for.
NOR soldiers there who are prepared
to take orders from representatives
OF their emperor In preparation for
war. However much or little there
may be i'm all this talk. ii is certain
that Hawaii is rapidly being Japanned.
The little. aggressive brown men out
number The whites seven to one.
There are more than $4,000 Chinese
and only about $4,000 of other people.
tary or commercial, one counts only
The able bodied mon. men who can
carry hoe or gun, WELD a sword
or peG--and of these there are more
than $4,000 and perhaps 10000 Japa.
nCsc forming from 81 To- 80 per cent.
of the male population. with the 20
600 Chinese men thrcefourths Of all
the people capable of performing the
duties of a soldier are Asiatics OF
whites, the men who are sworn to de
fcnd American interests, there are
fewer than 10000, and many of these
are Portuguese and other Europeans
without concern in the glory of the
Stars and Stripes
II is apparent that I'm Hawaii the
balance Of manual strength lies with
the japanese. Joined by his brethren
of the queue, 1t would mean three to
one against all others here. and seven
or more to one against the whites.
Rather n long shot for Uncle Sam
to play i'm these troublous times even
II the race is straight and to the
speediest.
But what are the Japanese doing
! here? One may listen to strange
| stories of honest labOrers assembled
by company and regiment in moonlit
fields, of drills at midnight in lonely
places and other weird, incredible
tales of warlike preparations by the
! mikado's men i'm Hawaii now. Sift
them and you have but thin sub
! stance for the ominous mass said tC
| shadow our sovereignty. Perhaps q
band OF Pakc youths. Chinese cadets
in Christian schools. fash their tin
hayonets i'm the cool of the evening
out Kalihi way or wave their pewter
swords under the phmy palms or in
the Clearings of the sugar and paddy
fields
Ask Gov Carter or the police ant
they smile indulgently as if to say
many have been bewitched by the Sc,
of kimonos and wooden clogs. Blu
whisper to Bob Kidd a leadinl
Journalist here. or to "Scotty." tn,
leading dispensary proprietor, or to ,
hundred others not helping TO rule the
islands, and they will draw vivid pic
lures of what they have seen. Differ
ences of opinion are many. but tn,
man in the street here believes japan
lust waits to taEe into her NAV thes,
fair coral dots, that the ambition o
Nippon is To float the red ball on tn,
white field over Capt. Cooks discoy
cry, and that every last mothers sol
OF Japan will arise at prearrange,
signal and seize the government.
These ideas have become p:evalen
only since the peace between Russii
and Japan was made. They aros,
primarily from Japan's sudden boun,
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 tn,
entire importation of Japanese was o
the laboring class. now difc~en
kind enters. And this despite the dc
sires of the sugar planters. who foste
the immigration. To understand thi
one must go a little into the histor,
of the japanese movement TO Hawaii
There is little else grown IN Hawai-