Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-05-12
JUDGE Dole HAS
|. BIRTHDAY PARTY
AND MAKES GIFT

Judge DoIe's birthday luncheon at
the AID Climb this noon was marked by
the gift of a very interesting address
club was vigorous AID Club cheers for
its youngest member.
His talk carried an array of figures
shaped into form tilat makes Stats
tics talk.
Another favor at this luncheon was
the singing Of Miss F. Goodwin Bar
ton of the London Royal Academy of
Music. She rendered three numbers
with a power and artistic force that
aroused the AID Club enthusiasm to
the outside limit.
Mrs. Dole was also the guest of
the club and with Mrs. Harrington and
Miss Barton made up the representa-
ton of the women's auxiliary.
Judge Dole in summing up his fig
ures taken from the school and gen
eral territorial statistics said: -.
eff these figures are correct, we
find that although the Japanese be-
tween 1900 and 1910 were increasing
at less rate than the Caucasian, the
part Hawaiian or the Portuguese, from
1903 to 1918 the Japanese school
children have been increasing far
faster. In 1910, Of the 1864 Japanese
here, 1859 were born here or in
some other part of the United States.
In the same year the Hawaiians and
ipart-Hawaiians numbered 3S,547, and
all the American-born 39,721. Next
to the Japanese population in 1910
come the Hawaiians and part Hawai-
JAMS, with, 3S,547; then the Portu-
guese with 22,365; then the Chinese
with 21,674; then the other Gaucat
slams with 14,S67.) 49,.
How is this showing likely to af.
feet the political situation here? Amer
ican.bern Japanese already outnum-
Der the American born persons of
any other race, except the Hawaiians,
and the aggregate Of Amerfcan-born
persons resident here in 1910 outnum.
hers the Hawaiian-born Japanese by
1925 persons. Still, with the extra
ordinary increase of Japanese school
children in the last ten years, of 335
Fer cent, continued in the same ratio,
natiyelborn Japanese would in a few
years approximate a majority of the
inativesborn residents, IL such child
tren should all remain In Hawaii
The school statistics are a surprise
and are somewhat confusing in view
lof the census statistics for 1900 and
1910, during which period the Japan
tese residents here had increased at
a less rate than in the cases of the
part Hawaiian, the Portuguese, the
llother Caucasians, and the aggregate
lof races represented here in respect.
lively small numbers.
OF the Japanese children attending
tschoOl here2I am Informed that con-
siderable percentage are sent to Ja-
pan. Those that remain are newt
ably strongly Influenced in the deVeI-
opment of character and sentiment
by their education in the public
schools, their association In the school
rooms and on the play grounds with
children of other races. They grow
up definitely differentiated from the
Japanese who have arrived here as
adults. They are American citizens,
and as a rule will entertain senti.
Iments OF, loyalty to the flag and of
affection to Hawaii and its institu-
tions. The important question is,
What kind of a voting element will
they make? Perhaps It is true that
all voting elements are disappointing
at times. Still, we have found that
our Chinese citizens have, as a rule,
exercised their franchise In conser.
yatiye way. and the same may. be said
on the whole with the Portuguese.
The Hawaiians have been open to APP.
Epeals to their patriotism and to COM
mon sense, Our variety of race ele-
ments in the voting population will.
in the future, more and more become
an element of security through the
difficulty of promoting political COM
binations and the tendency in such a
state of things for partisan move
ments to neutralize each other;
whereas issues of general Importance
based upon ethical or patriotic de.
mands will appeal to ALL
The Hawaiian Islands are Anglo
Saxon in public sentiment, and have
been so for several generations. This
sentiments firmly entrenched and is
| dominant In ethical, social and politi.
! cal issues. 1t has come to stay, and
1.-THE elements. racial and otherwise,
that fall in with it will prosper; those
that oppose it will be swept away.
This Anglo-Saxon outlook has the
saving quality of progressiveness, and
so is resourceful under such new con-
| ditions as are inevitable from time to
time in the natural course of events
Our safeguard for the future is to
maintain this public sentiment as our
chiefest asset. With that dominant
We may meet the problems that will
arise from time to time from our I'M
| usual racial situation without undue
anxiety.
A vital element in this outlook ia
| fair play and sentiment of hospital.
| ity toward the representatives of the
! different races that are here; and
such sentiment can only be created
and sustained through the individual
attitude-an attitude that wins con,
! fidence and prepares the way for
| friendship and good will.