Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-11-23
THE JAPANESE AND HAWAII.

by the white citizenship; nor IS there any good
reason for the note of irritated luminosity
sounded in the speeches of last nights mass
meeting .@
Tic any element in Hawaii's cosmopolitan
population has been given utmost opportunity,
equitable treatment, broad-minded cooperation,
II is the Japanese. Notseyen their leaders can
be unmindful of the facts, and those facts do
not warrant such statements as these
-For what we have done for Hawaii we should
be respected a nd esteemed. but we not When
the white PEG pie here anything, a Ian
tern parade or q water carnival they
When this Is yer they pay no attention 70 us. they .
remain ignora Mt Of our conditions The stopping of
the aviation is fair sample Of the feeling the
authorities ma We towards us. zG sss
Taking all OF these things into consideration
cannot expect cooperation with the white peopIe".i
Hawaii is preeminently the country Of social
interIningling, and racial Intolerance is I'M.
known. tits the country that typifes at its
best an American spirit of equality of treat
ment for all races. RIH
In Hawaii there are no antisalien land laws
as there are in California and ia many other
states; no such violent legislation against the
admission of aliens as Canada has recently
sponsored
In Hawaii the Japanese meet and mingle
withall other races in business, in education,
in religion, in benevolence, in public service,
in amnsements, in sports, in professional life.
In Hawaii the japanese, together with other
0rientals, almost control many branches of
trades industry Their contractors bid fire.
quently- and often with success with white
contractors Iof federal as well as for private
construction. work Their banks, shops, i'm /
porting and orting houses are part of the
business life every CITY and towtis Their
physicians rrsetiee freely and several hold
membership in the Medical Society; their at
torneys are admitted to the bar and carry on
the profession Of lawvon the same terms as
anyone else
For the education of the japanese children
and youths Of Hawaii, the territory is spending
hundreds Of thousands Of dollars. The children
Of the Japanese are admitted to Hawaiian pub
lie schools on the same terms as children of any
and every other nationality Private schools,
institutions, homes have been built and are
maintained generously for the Japanese and
for other aliens, For instance, the Mid Pacific
Institute to educate Oriental children; for in
stance, Susannah Wesley Home to shelter Jap
anese and Korean women and children. The
list Of such institutions is a long one.
II was stated BY one speaker last night that
the Japanese have been IN Hawaii for forty
wears and have been q large factor IN making
the country what it is, but that their hopes of
assimilating with the community have failed. |
II is true that there have been japanese here
for forty years, but the overwhelmingly larger
proportion Of them have come within the last |
fifteen or twenty years And we think the /
facts cited above will show to what extent the !,
Japanese have been assimilated here and have
become part Of Hawaii's community life.
Hawaii has meant to- thousands Of very poor !
Japanese future Of assured economical COM
fort, usually great prosperity as compared to !
their condition in Japan. 1t has meant the edu-
cation of their children at government expense
Ian education freely and gladly bestowed onl
these little citizens, many of them future voters
Of Hawaii Hawaii has meant opportunity, /
even wealth The accountable number of small
businesses owned by Japanese in Hawaii is
sufficient proof of the opportunity that this
territory has opened to the arriving aliens
When the Hawaii touring party visited
Japan last spring, II was q frequent experience
for Japanese who formerly lived here but had
returned to their own country to voice the sin-l
cere wish that they could return to Hawaii
in speeches, in private talks, in newspaper ar
ticles, this sentiment was often reiterated:
Hawaii has done wonderful things for the
Japanese. 1t has welcomed them. 1t has done
for them what even their own country could
not do
Tn a moment Of irritation over the order
a1ainst the fights of Japanese aviator, the