Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-01-31
JAPS THREATEN
To DOMINATE IN
HAWAII SHORTLY
Federal Survey lust Com.
pIeted Shows That Nip
poneSe Are Increasing
Rapidly; Soon Control Vote

Honolulu, r. H. Jan. 3O.-A
federal survey commission, headed
by DR.. Frank f. Bunker of Wash
ington, which recently surveyed
education conditions in Hawaii, in
q preliminary report declared that
the momentum" Of the japanese
race in Hawaii puts all other ra-
cial groups out of the running in
respect to numbers and that the
4 momentum If continued win carry
the japanese race into an increas-
inly dominant numerical position,
giving their Hawaiian born prog
eny in 1880 about 20 per cent Of
the electorate OF the territory.
The report, which is freely in
terspersed with tables of figures
obtained from federal and terrific
rial official sources. and from the
office of the Japanese consulate
general in Honolulu, says in part:
with an actual population now
in the islands of 114,137 $3.50,
as reported by the japanese con-
ssulate general, against $4,000
Portuguese, the next largest group,
1t is clear that the Japanese race
agllas acquired a momentum which
puts all the other groups out of
the running with respect to num-
AZ beTs. s... t--=.r pe
THAT this momentum inevitably
win carry the Japanese race into
an increasingly dominant numeri-
cal position, if continued is clear
~ shown by tables compiled from
information obtained from the Of
flee of the japanese consul gen.
eral and from the records of the
territorial board Of health" .A
Dealing with the parallel pre-
scented by thu methods of adjust
ment to island influences repre-
scented by the Portuguese and the
Japanese races, the report says:
while both groups originally were
brought into the islands to satisfy
81 the need for cheap labor on the
plantations, there is with both a
~ pronounced tendency to seek q bet
ter economic position by breaking
away from the plantations and en-
gaging in other activities giving
promise of a freer and more am
pie life.
THE japanese are ambitious to
become tenants, to own land, to set
up business, to enter a profession,
TO rise above the category of UNI
skilled labor and as they individ-
ually achieve their ambition, they
are, like the Portuguese, partici-
pating more and more in the af-
fairs of the islands, socially, edu-
cationally, politically. Further
more, they are all at work. Further
are few triflers and idlers among
them There are now, approx
mately, $4,000 male and $4,000
female adult japanese in the is
lands. A table, based upon the in
formation obtained from the Jap
anese consulate general shows that
50,149 of them are employed in
gainful occupations.
1T should be said in fairness
that there are few japanese child
rem in the juvenile courts and in
institutions for delinquents; and
there are proportionately very few
Japanese among the convict labor
gangs and in the iails. Few, IL any
afe supported by public charity,
nor are there any begging in the
streets. Their per capita savings
bank deposits rank third among
those of the island races, being ex-
ceeded by the Americans and Por-
tuguese only. . %
"All of which activity, laudable
in itself, can be explained ade-
quately on the basis of racial quail
tiles, inherent in the japanese, of
patience, persistence, thrift, intia-
tive, endurance, ambition, group
solidarity, coupled with aCumen
and a CT a ri Ch
ability to get on where other races
have failed. Indeed, so we'll have
the japanese adjusted themselves
to island conditions, and so rapidly
are they increasing in numbers of /
Hawaiian-born children, that this
group soon will have a ma jority |
of the voters of the islands"
The commissioner report then
deduces from a table of japanese |
children from 1898 to 1919 that
1926 Hawaiian-born japanese |
will have been added to the list Of
eligible voters by 1910, making a |
total during a 22-year period of
3b,137. Deducing -13 per cent to
cover possible losses by removal
and death, the report estimates
that by 1910 there will be an ag-
gregate of japanese voters in the
territory of 30,S57, including ISL
new registered.
Pointing to the fact that Jap
anese children in the public schools
of Hawaii in 1910 were 27.72 pcr
cent of the total enrolment and
that in 1919 this school group
stood at 40.55 per cent of the
whoie, the report says this indi-
Gates that the place in the electo-
rate that the Japanese will occupy
in 1880 and again in 1910 may, in
deed, be nder-estimated." The
concrete deduction then follows:
Whether or not the japanese
desire to achieve political control,
without doubt, within few years,
they will be in a position to do so
If they choose"
The interesting comparisons of
The degree of intermarriage in
Obliged in by different races in the
islands next are taken up, which
bring the commission to the con-
clusion that In general, Japanese
marry only Japanese. Il is clear
that all races, except the Koreans,
and japanese, are fusIng rapidly
through intermarriages, but thatj
the Japanese group is maintaining
its racial distinctiveness."
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