Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-12-06
Editor Honolulu Star Bulletin.

Editor Honolulu Star-Bulietin.
Dear Sir: The other evening at
the Rijou it was stated by one Of
The speakers that majority of the
local offenders against the virtue Of
young girls. were Americans.
1t is TO be regretted that more def
mite information was not furnished
ty the speaker, since the matter Of
races was mentioned at all, because
without some qualification the word
American" has little meaning as an
chronological definition, What is an
American-as The term is used to
day?
A man of any race whatever who
has qualified as an American citi-
zen under extremely lenlent laws.
or a person born in the country OF
foreign parents. possibly as ignorant
of true American spirit as ii he has
been born in Dahomey.
Here is list from a New York
court record: B American (paT-
ents Italian), rape; P, american
(parents German. felony; H
American (parents Italian and
French Canadian. fornication; L
American (parents Germany, murder;
s.. American (parents Hungarian.
infanticide; L, American (parents
English), forgery; r.. American
tparents American). embezzlement.
These are all Americans-and yet?
If you ere going TO make invidi
Gus comparisons, give us the facts,
Tell us who the parents and grand
parents were, and don't fasten on the
name AMERICAN the incubus of
crime which should be distributed
among several races.
Many native-born Americans" are
as foreign to all our institutions and
indigenous population as if they had
never seen our shores.
That is nothing against them, but
it's a fact And another, fact is thai
the American of sufficiently long ma
tive ancestry, does not figure large
ly in the criminal calendar.
Give a man at least two genera
, lions of American ancestry before
you use his name to swell the record
of AMERICAN shame.
Who murdered Garfield? An
American named Guiteau. Who shot
Mckinley? Who attempted to Kill
ROOSEVELT?
Did you ever pause to consider
how very few American States there
are today?
Montana, North and South Dakota.
Minnesota, Wisconsin. Michigan, New
York, Illinois, Utah. Rhode Island,
New Jersey and Connecticut with
over 80 per cent foreign population.
1 These are aliens-not native born
foreigners which brings the rate to
over IS per cent.
! Of the latter class, Ohio has 30 per
, cent and % to 30 per cent foreign.
Washington, Oregon, California
| Arizona, Idaho, Wyoming. Nebraska
Colorado. Kansas, Pennsylvania
Maine. Vermont, New Hampshire
have from % to 80 per cent foreign
Figure out for yourself an esti
mate of native-born foreigners, the
children OF foreigners!
! New Mexico, Texas. Missouri. In
| diana, Maryland and Delaware have
from 10 to q per cent foreign.
Oklahoma. Kentucky. West Viz
ginia, Louisiana and Florida. = to IT.
per cent foreign.
Now, where are the Americans? In
Virginia, North and South Carolina
| Tennessee, Arkansas. Mississippi
Alabama and Georgia.
And large part of these are ne
! groes. This makes about 33 per cent
! of native-born Americans in the
| United States,
So to furnish statistics Of any
value, we must state whether mar
is German, English. French or Portu
( gueSe; whether he is of foreign OF
American descent. His political al
filiations are rather unimporant.l
The fact that considerable coi