The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-06-13
DELEGATE KALANIANAOLE'S
STATEMENT ON EXCEPTING
HAWAII FROM LITERACY TEST

entail, and Jhat the HAWAIIAN IuSS' III |
Guiding even those of mixed Hawaii |
an blood, are at a standstill, If not &C
tually retrograding, in numbers. TIE
situation as to an increase in popula-
ton by reproduction, therefore, stands
as follows: 24,S91 females, Japanese,
very prolific; 4,256 females, Chinese,
very prolific; 1O,73O females of the
Latin race, very prolific; 1925 fe
males of the white race, other than
Latins, fairly prolific; 1902 females
of the Hawaiian race, nonprolific. To
tai of all females, 6S,S10.
Moreover, while the open admission
of Asiatics into Hawaii is about over,
the Japanese government continues
to allow a very considerable number
| of young Japanese females to enter
the Territory of Hawaii, who almost
invariably come to marry some young
| Japanese already in the Territory,
which marriages are consummated
Immediately upon the arrival Of the
women from Japan, without the par
| ties to the contract ever having seen
each other before, these women being
generally known as picture Brides"
from the fact that they are often Sc.
lected by Japanese in the Territory
from photographs that are forwarded
from Japan for that purpose. This
system results in multiplying the jap
anese population much faster in Ha-
vail than one would infer from
statement merely of the number Of
Japanese still coming to Hawaii.
Japanese Having Citizenship Rights.
1t is true that many Japanese re.
turn yearly to Japan with their fam
lilies, but these children bon in Ha-
waii are almost invariably provide
with official certificates birth,
which establish their American citi-
7enship, and therefore their right ITO
return to Hawaii and assume. the
i rights of such citizenship, including
the right to vote, whenever they
| personally SO elect. OF course the
Japanese born in Hawaii and remain.
| ing or returning there, upon arri ing
at majority, are privileged to vote on
an equal footing with any other citi.
zen. and some of them have alre dy
started in to use Their rights of citi.
yenship in a small way in the matter
of voting and in the matter of taking
up public lands. That the exercise of
these privileges will increase very
rapidly from now on is patent to all.
continue in Hawaii as they are now
to hand the Territory over indust"i.
ely and politically to the Ash tic
races, unless the non-Asiatic popuIq-
ton is fortified by immigration OF
Caucasian races.
No Natural Stream of Caucasian Inn.
migrants.
Considering that phase of the ques.
ton, desire to call attention to the
fact that there is no natural stream
o. Caucasian immigration to Hawaii
the natural stream of immigration is
Asiatic, which would long since have
completely filled Hawaii but for ar
tificial barriers of the law. There is
no natural stream of immigration to
Hawaii even from the United States,
TO amount to anything, to Offset the
Asiatic population The labor condi-
tions are more inviting, the standard
of wages higher, and general cOn1i.
! tons more favorable on the mainland
of the United States than they are
! in Hawaii, so that not only can we
not count upon any stream of immi.
| grafton to Hawaii from the mainland
Of the United States, but the reverse
is the fact, and the natural stream
| Of Caucasian immigration is awaY
from Hawaii to California, SO that
| Hawaii is confronted with the per.
| picking problem that after we import
Latins, as we have, into Hawaii at
great cost sooner or lateN> many Ct
them and their families keep drifting
away to the Pacic coast, and this drift
will become intensified and more
rapid the more an Asiatic population
mUltiplies and fortiies in that Terri
! tory, the natural result being. that
Caucasians, even including the Lat,
ms, are forced to the conviction tAat
Hawaii is no abiding place for them,
/ ard that however prosperous they
may be there temporarily, the ulti,
taste welfare of their families invite
them to prepare to pull up stakes in
the end and get to the Pacific coast,
there to make their permanent homes.
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