The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-06-19


Is white mans country" 1t is TO
save this country for the propagation
of American ideals and Christian
standards as opposed to the morals
and religions of the Orient, that the
people here are demanding that all
Asiatic immigration be stopped by
law. They have already seen more
than one American village transform
ed by the Asiatic invasion. They
have seen the morals of the typical
American small town corrupted by
Asiatics whose gambling tables and
opium dens have led to things much
worse, things all but unknown to the
American small town. They have
seen rural communities of prosperous
farms utterly demoralized by the in
fiux of Asiatics. Where there was
once a few neat farm houses guarding
the broad acres of American home
steads, there are now dozens of mis-
cradle novels in which swarnls of
Japanese live crowded together like
sheep. No recountal of the triumphs
of progressive Japan. however truth
full, is able to blot out that pic1dre.
The people of the Pacific Coast are
sometimes ridiculed because they fear
that the Asiatics will overrun their
country and endanger American insti-
buttons. The Pacific Coast people re-
ply: I'VE have seen the evil worked
out in small villages and farming
communities here. We have seen it in
Hawaii. We are not afraid of the
Got = h.
If it opposes the Asiatic. But it must
fight to maintain its supremacy. That
is what we do when we seek exclusion
we are fighting for white supremacy
''Those who think we overestimate
the danger should consider the case
of Hawaii. Those islands were in
habited by a simple aboriginal folk.
The English discovered them, but the
Americans were first to introduce the
ideas of modern civilization. The race
suffered greatly by the disease and
the alcohol which came in with the
white man, but it was soon able to
conduct a government along the lines
of modern occidental nations, it adopt
ed the English language and the
Christian religion. There was no more
reason why it should not have been
occidental in civilization than obtained
in America, for the aborigines could
oppose no civilization of their own
to block the coming of the American
ideals.
Now look at Hawaii. Its great in
terests are still in the hands of Amer
leans, but it is by mighty effort that
the Entertainments of Asiatics in the
business world are being resisted. As
for the social life of the islands-it is
no longer occidental. The prevailing
religion of this territory of the United
States is Buddhism. Fifty years ago
it was Christianity. The language
most used in ordinary social life is
Japanese.
Hawaii is still resisting the Asiatic
influence, and is today the bumper be-
tween the civilizations of the East and
West in the Pacific Ocean. But in the
fight Hawaii has suffered much. The
Pacific Coast states do not propose |
to permit the problems which disturb |
Hawaii to be transplanted to the main
land"
lived in Japan and China for many
years, and whose opinion would have
added weight if his name could be
Used, said: THE fears of the Pacific
coast states are fully justified. If
here were no effort on the part Of
he United states to prevent it, China
md Japan would send so many people
o America that in fi-e years the coun-
ry west of the Rocky Mountains
would have as many Asiatics as
americans"
The differences between this race
question which is disturbing the peo-
lie of so many parts of the world and
he race question of the Southern
tates are radical. The basic feeling
f race antagonism is the same, but
he negro is different from the white
nan only in race. y California public
nan explained it in this way:
THE Asiatic who comes to America
5 not only different in race. but IN
many other ways. He has a nation
Thich he represents and TO which he
emains absolutely loyal. no matter
ow long he may stay here. He has a
ystem of morals which differs so
adically from ours that assimilation I
f the two people is impossible. He
as a religion which is different from
urs, and, aside from the dogma of i
aith, which is essentially inferior in
hat it reduces women to a position
tile better than that of an animal. 5
he virtues of the white man he looks
pom with contempt, the vices he
sizes and initiates.
"All of this may be utterly unfair t
nd unjust when applied to Chinese g
r japanese of high breeding or posi-
on. That there are good men in Asia
not to be questioned. But when
ne gates are thrown wide open TO I
it is not the good ones I
-ho come to America. 1t is the bad @
nd the Pacific Coast already has
nough of them
Asia is beginning to throw out its
lrplus population upon the shores of Il
very new" country on earth. This G
Iovement will continue with gather
lg force in the next few years unless
is prevented To absolutely prohibit
static emigration to European and ?
merican countries means the joining a
: the issue between the East and the n
lest. This worldwide race question
ay yet plunge the nations into the
-eatest war that men have ever p