Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-07-06

 CAHE FIELD Japan says she does not want Ha- waii, while at the same time she keeps sending her people to the island by the hundreds and thousands. There are at the present time some 80.000 of the loyal subjects of the mikado on the island, and these, to the thinking of some Americans, are menace to the interests of the United States and are but the initial step to the confscation of the group of islands by Japan when favorable opportunity shall present itself. On the other hand, if we are to take Japan's word for it as expressed by her most prominent and influential statesmen, Japan has no more thought of gaining possession of this outpost of Columbia in the Pacific than she has of going still farther west and an- nexing California, thing which some alarmists at San Francisco are trying to make themselves believe is possi ble.
 It is not only claimed that Japan is encouraging her people to settle in Hawaii, but that she is sending for mer soldiers there who are prepared to take orders from representatives of their emperor in preparation for war However much or little there may be in all this talk, 1t is certain that Hawaii is rapidly being Japanned. The little, aggressive brown men out number the whites seven to one. There are more than 35,000 Chinese and only about 65,00O of other people But when one talks of conquest, mili- itary or commercial, one counts only the able bodied men, men who can carry hoe or a gun, wield sword or a pen-and of these there are more than 50.O00 and perhaps 60,000 Japa- nese, forming from 51 to 60 per cent. of the male population. With the 20,- 900 Chinese men three-fourths of all the people capable of performing the duties of soldier are Asiatics. Of whites, the men who are sworn to de. fend 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.
 It is apparent that in 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 a long shot for Uncle Sam to play in these troublous times, even if 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. os drills at midnight in lonely places and other weird, incredible tales of warlike preparations by the mikado's men in Hawaii now. Sift them and you have but a thin sub stance for the omlnous mass said to shadow our sovereignty. Perhaps a band of Pake youths. Chinese cadets in Christian schools, flash their tin 'bayonets in the cool of the evening out Kalihi way or wave their pewter swords under the plumy palms or in the elearings of the sugar and paddy fields.
 Ask Gov. Carter or the police and they smile indulgently. as if 10 say many have been bewitched by the sea of kimonos and wooden clogs. But whisper to Bob" Kidd. a leading journalist here. or to "Scotty." the leading dispensary proprietor. or to hundred others not helping to rule the islands. and they will draw vivid pie lures of what they have seen. Differ ences of opinion are many. but the man in the street here believes Japan just waits to take into her nav these fair coral dots. that the ambition of Nippon is to float the red bail on the white field over Capt. Cooks discov-  cry. and that every last mothers son of Japan will arise at prearranged signal and seize the government.
 These ideas have become prevalent only since the peace between Russia and Japan was made They arose primarily from Jspan's sudden bound into the family of the great nations and her startling exhibition of mill. tary and commercial genius in var and peace since the century began.
 Whereas until a few years ago the entire importation of Japanese vas of the iaboring class. now a different kind enters And this despite the de sires of the sugar planters. vho foster the immigration To understand this one must go little into the history of the Japanese movement to Hawai- There is little else grown ia Hawaii l