Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-07-06

than sugar. Out of $36,000,000 of ex- ports a year $35,0oO.000 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 laborers neces- sary. Then came an era of Chinese. They were cheap, and, like their suc- cessors, the Japanese, rarely brought families. This lessened the cost or transportation. After a 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 after 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 1886, and a year later Chinese were excluded by the Hawaiian king and his advis- CTS.
 JdpdutSe IusHou III lucH uy tiiS lCuS of thousands.
 While one has no foundation, except that vague, intangible one of suspi- cion and probability, to affirm that the Japanese war department is send ing to American territory body of soldiers, yet it is certain that there would be no hesitation on her part in grasping promptly whatever advan- tages this situation offered her in event of the actual outbreak of hos tilities. Moreover, it is absolutely cer- tain that the intelligence office of the Japanese waC department ayails itself of the opportunity afforded to send it's spies among the immigrants when, ever 1t seems worth while and that many soldiers or former soldiers qualified by their special training as we'll as their racial characteristics for such work are engaged in prac- tical espionage, which in the aggre- gate must supply to the office data of vast importance.
 At the suggestion of Gov Carter . correspondent of the New York Her aid interviewed Mir. c. Shiozawa, the proprietor and editor of the Hawaii Shimpo. the most influential daily newspaper printed in Japanese here. He has been in Hawaii 16 years, is . gentleman by birth and has brother major on the general staff of the army. He 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. It 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- ditions on the plantation are humili- ating and disagreeable and the plant CT seeks only to grind all the energy HosSAoAc AAbhA Oul pt0plNs OuutF Ln0 new understanding between the Unit cd States and Japan no passports are to be issued to Japanese laborers to go to the mainland of America, nor are any to be permitted to go there from Hawaii. Except for the few who will emlgrate from here to Cana- da and Mexico in the endeavor to smuggle themselves into the United States the Japanese population of this territory will not decrease unless CT. lies return to their own country.
 T calculate there are 10000 Japs nese here now. of whom 10000 are plantation laborers. This is enough. There is hardly work now to go round. Of course. the planters will encourage an unnatural immigration. so as to flood the market with labor and force and keep wages down. [ recommend that the Japanese govern ment refuse to allow more Japanese to come here"