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

! Editor Honolulu Star-bullelln, L.
Dear Sir: The other evening at
the Bijou It was stated by one OF
the speakers that q majority of the
local offenders against the virtue OF
young girls, were Americans.
Ii is to be regretted that more def.
mite information was not furnished
by 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 Hnder extremely lenient laws,
or a person born in the country OF
foreign parents, possibly as ignorant
of true American spirit as II he had
been born In Dahomey.
i Here is a list from New York
court record: B. American tpar.
ents ltalianI, rape; p, american
fparents Germany. felony; H.
American parents Italian and
French Canadianl. fornication; L-
American parents Germany, murder;
S., American tparents Hungarian)
infanticide: II, American tparents
English). forgery; r. American
lparents Americanl. embezzlement
These are all Americans and yet:
II you ere going to make inyidi.
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 natiye-born .Afierieans' are
as foreign to all our institutions and
indigenous population as II they had
never seen our shores.
That is nothing against them. but
it's fact. And another fact is that
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 Connecticuts with
over 80 per cent foreign population
, These are aliens-not native born
foreigners which brings the rate to
over IS per cent.
J OF the latter class, Ohio has 80 pei
, cent and % to SO per fcent 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 est
mate of native-born foreigners, the
children of foreigners! H.. ....> .
| New Mexico, Texas, Missouri, In
diana, Maryland and Delaware have
from 10 TO Is per cent foreign.
Oklahoma, Kentucky, West Vir
ginia, Louisiana and Florida, 5 to II
!, per cent foreign. -
Now, where are the Americans? In
Virginia, North and South Carolina
Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi
Alabama and Georgia! 49,: -.
And large part of these are ne
groes. This makes about SO per cen
Iof 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 af
filiations are rather unimportant.
The fact that considerable col