The Washington herald., 1921-07-10
HAWAIIAN PEOPLE
A VANISHING RACE,
STATISTICS SHOW
Once Mightiest Nation
OF Polynesia Fails
In Civilization.
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By GEORGE y. NELLIsT.
HONOLULU. T. H. July .. - The
piaintive. haunting music OF Hawaii
is the requiem Of a dying race.
The pure blood Hsvsiians. onoe
the mishtiest and nobIest nation of
Polynesia. even now magnificent OF =
physique and keen Of mind. are dy-
ing out
Statistics showing thesbirth snd .
death rates in the territorE Of
Hawaii for one year. just publsShed
by the bureau OF vital statistics efss
the territorial board OF health tetr
the story OF one OF the wtrsd,ss'
tragedies, the doom Of a once sis-e
did race. q
Only 12.ese Left. es1of
1t is estimated that there are '-s.eos :
pure blood HawaiIans in the terri
tory. For the twelve month period
there were s76 births among them.
rate per 1000 OF 3O.73, not far be-
low the average for all races, 1905.
but there were 1.0l0 deaths. a rate
Of fb.sl. against an average of 1883,
net loss in population OF 33l, an
annual decrease of 1918 per cent
Those msthematicslly inclined can
figure out with reasonable certainty
the year when the pure Hawaiian
race will have ceased TO exist
century Of the civilization Of
Christianity has deslth harshly with
the Hawaiians.
As pointed out recently. however.
by an ethnologist Of the Bishop
Museum, from the ruins Of the Ha-
waiisn there is springing up in the
island new and virile race, made
strong by the mingled blood of the
Occident, the Orient. and Polynesia.
There are now in Hawaii s.lOO
Asiatic Hswaiians, and for the year
their birth rate was sos. the death
rate only 1853. a rate of increase OF
$3.50 per cent
Mixed Breeds Decrease.
For lo.soo Caucasian Hawaiians
the birth rate was 6472: death rate.
as.l6; rate OF increase. 4I57
IL would appear from this show
ing that an alliance between the
Orient and Polynesia is more pro-
lihc and harder than the union be-
tween Occident and Polynesia
Most Of the unions Of Hawaiian
and Orientals have been those or
Chinamen Fnd Hawaiian women.
Ihe japanese rarely marry into an
other race. Preservation Of racial
purity seems to be almost a fetish
with the sons and daughters Of Ia
pan. The Chinese. however. hav.
freely intermsrried with the IA
~aians and the results have been
gooo. II Is largely to children Of
such unions that credit is due for
the Widespread tributes which have
women.
II is imposs ible in any considera-
tion Of the racial probIer, =
Hawaii 10 ignore the Japsnas.
Their preDonderance, their proIfB.--
ness their jealousy guarded raci..r
i'ofnogeneiJy. make them a factor
oNeTshadowinG all others when on.
uhoertakes to read the future o.
these islands.
JaPs Multiply Fast.
or total population OF less ,bs,,
100000. the Japanasa ar ~ -
mated to number 1l3.5OO ara O..
me last year for which statistics ar.
aNailable their birth rate was ae--
.heir death rate 1906. and rste ~
increase 2SG.. For the tUeI,.
months there were 4sS3 Jsnsr.s.
Oirths and 1886 deaths Fo- -,
aces there were lO.l65 births In
olhsr words, Of the natural incr.as,
ha"aiis population almost ono
i. nan is japanese. their percentage Of
oeins considerably larger
tHah thelr proportion OF the nr.ss,,,
POPULATION. So far as nuu.ric.,T
domination of the territory is ron-
heI tt they are simply overwhelrn-
ing the new Asiatic Hawaiian sng
cssian Hawaiian races. A trsDs-
~ %nted people are breeding thsm-
es into racial majority in
out. IaSt oNing
chemistry Of eyolu3o, 80
marsh rule of the survival =, N
~ Is working out q mo-, A.,
I.hg t,,. problem in Hawaii. The r.
Lt OF which can almost be urit,.r