The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-10-05
JAPANESE HAWAII
POETIC JUSTICE
Georgia Paper Thinks Acquisi-
ton of Islands by Japan
the Revenge of Time.

Macon (Ga.) Telegraph. Sept. 1, 1900
More interesting information about
the steady and conquering advance of
the japanese in the Hawaiian Islands
is furnished by Mr.. Walter G. Smith,
of Honolulu, editor of the Pacific Com
mercial Advertiser, and it should in
terest those of US who object to the
exclusion of japanese laborers from
the United States. In an interview Mr..
Smith says:
1.-THE japanese are slowly acquiring
commercial supremacy. They are
working with that object in view. and
the whites Of the group are seeking in
every direction a solution of the diff
ficulty. It is impossible for white labor
to compete with. the japanese mode of
living. and workingmen and trades
men are compelled to leave the islands.
We think We have secured a solution
of the difficulty in inviting the white
farmers to our shores. The new Ter
ritoriaI administration is pledged to
that purpose, and we shall endeavor
to have Government land in addition
thrown open to the white farmers.
Should we fail in securing the open
ing of the land and the aid of whites,
we will be AT a loss for an effectual
way of fighting the japanese CONNER
cially. At the present time the poll
cies of the Territory are in the hands
OF the whites through the elections,
but there is a great population grow
ing up or native-born Japanese, who
will have the elective franchise and
they may be depended upon to vote
solidIy for any policy favoring the in
terests of Japan
OF this temperate and comprehensive
statement, which ''foreshadows the
political as well as commercial pre-
dominance of the Japanese in Hawaii. :"
the washington Post says: TT is a
dangerous state of affairs when any in
tegral part of the United States must
call forl American immigrants in order
20 save the Americans already there
from being placed on a plane with
coolie labor. There are ugly possibfli-
ties in the Hawaiian situation. The
United States may be eventually COM
PEELED to govern a little Japan in the
Pacific, for. the benefit of Japanese
whose connections in peace and SYM
pathy in war would be with Japan.
II present tendencies continue to the
logical conclusion, all the white resi-
dents of Hawaii, except the owners of
sugar plantations, must work for
coolie wages or get out. In view of
the present preponderance OF Japanese,
Ii is questionable whether American
farmers will be willing to go TO Ha-
wall to face the possibility Of COM
peting with the Asiatics Cor living.
The problem that confronts the Amer
leans already there Is, therefore, ex-
tremely serious. When 1t is better I'M
derstood, as it will be, the American
people will take care that there shall
be no duplication of such conditions on
the mainland"
The account is one to cause uneasi- !
ness in the mind of every good Ameri-
IAN citizen, and yet it is impossible to |
escape the conviction that such a /
will not be without its ele- |
ment of poetic justice. Americans
wrested Hawaii from its people by I
force and fraud, and if only after a /
few years another darker race shall /
,ome into commercial possession of the /
stolen land, the kanakas at least-the
irst 10 be despofled-will unquestion-
ably see in such a turn of events the
lvenging hand of fate.