Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-05-21
TIE JAPANESE In CALIFORNIA

The San Francisco Examiner brings out til
first definite set of statistics on the Japanese s
nation that we have yet seen in an American ps
per. Providing, of course, that the statistics o
he California situation are correct, the follow
ny article by Percy F. Montgomery, formerly
O. s. government agent in the Far East, is of III
Usual interest at this time:
How long would it take for the Japanese or the
Chinese, the two, to the Pacific slope
If they were not repressed? We do not know but
there undeniable facts that will help to judge
Chinese and Japanese have moved toward this
continent systematically for about half a century.
What has this movement accomplished? Let us see
Just the general facts without the intricate details
Hawaii, first in the pathway of this movement shall
be first example the state California the
ultimate terminus of the to date the sec
ond example.
The Japanese came to Hawaii to work as agrcul-
tursts The United States government published
several years SINCE in Document No. &C. Bulletin of
the Bureau of Labor, the following facts with regard
to Hawaii:
In the year 1904 out of a total of 629 persons
Of all nationates holding licenses for twenty-seven
kinds of occupations, from banking to fish drying
1,24I Japanese and 81 0S per cent of the school
children in American island territory were Jap
anese.
The board of education reported that white chill
dren (Occidentas) came home from school with their
dialect materially affected because of the prepond
erance of Orientas attending the schools Thirteen
years ago. in 1900, there engaged in "gainful
occupations" males, 63563 Japanese and Chinese
against 203S4 whites, 70. So per cent. This
Der has materially increased far the Orentals
have been concerned
Politically, Hawaii is American territory. In point
OF fact it is to those cognizant of military
conditions, and the government at Washington best
of ALL to be strategically Japanese now as it has
been for many years.
The density of population in Japan is about $40 to
the square mile. In California it is about IA to Is
per square mile
Field notes. taking i'll 41O2 farms, practically ev-
cry farm of value in the state of California showed
1873 operated by Japanese without any assistance
from white men, S62 Japanese and whites on shares,
and ,407 operated solely by white labor. Japanese
owned 1919 farms of total acreage of 1921, and
leased 10 farms of a total acreage of 10000.
Incidental to this farm property is urban prop
erty Japanese own 10 pieces of urban property
valued at 100000, and invested in industrials of
their $16,114407. OF this trade SO so per cent
was with the white man on mis- own ground The
fetal number of Oriental firms in business is given
at 254S but 80 per cent of which have been in bus
mess ten years Of the total number of firms
in business 81. 20 per cent have opened shop in the
past seven years since 1906.
The japanese does not assimiate with the white
resident but lives communistic life, where the cost
Of living is reduced to minimum and competition is
eliminated. The report shows that on a minimum
wage basis of 125 per diem 20 cents TO 80 cents
spent for living. On minimum basis of $3.50, the
sum of so cents is given as fair average OF the
amount spent to live.
Wearying statistics could be given without end.
After all, they but the or less inaccurate
records of human happenings.
Scientists know full well that the white man and
tie Oriental will no more assimilate in California
than has the white and the Oriental in China
in India.
SIncIiileiS no name for the WAY fhnSe t1nnn