The Connecticut labor news., 1922-04-28
By WILLIAM w. BARRY.

Amer1can territory, as there is danger that 1t will cease to be in the not too remote future. This third greatest sugar producing area ot the globe we must keep, not merely as all American possession but as an Amer ican community. In the hands ot a foreign pOWer-eVen inhabited Dy foreign population or dominated by foreign interests-it would menace the security of the mainland ot America.
 Iooay the Japanese are the domi- nant race of the Hawaiian Isands. Their rapid multiplication bdls fair to set up new Japan almost within hal of the shores ot California; to sub merge American institutions Tn Hawaii in a rising tide of population essentially Japanese in thought, GUS toms and business methods-ln a word, Japanese civilization.
 The Japanese were admitted to the Hawaiian Islands to supply the need for Iaborers to work the sugar plan tations, sugar production being the chief industry of the islands. The story ot their introduction IS the story of a fatuous blunder. The native population was a factor III the agrl- cultural or industrial development ot their own country. 1t belongs III the category of vanishing" peoples, and some day, if our hold upon the ls- lands is broken, it will not be to the Hawaiians that the dominion over the archipelago will fall.
 The American planters who built up the sugar industry of the islands cast about to find hardier folk than the native to do the manual labor ot irrigation and cultivation. Turning first to the great reservoir. ot man power whose people have labored on SO many gigantic undertakings, from the great wall to the Panama Canal, they opened their doors to the Chi nese in 1852. The plan proved work able, but as the campaign for admls- sion of the archipelago to the United States developed it was feared that large Chinese population would prove a barrier to the working out ot thls destiny, so in 1886 the Hawaiian gov ernment shut the door in the face ot further Chinese immigration.
 Then the fatuous blunder was made The planters and the government turned to the Japanese, hoping that they might save the industrial s1tua- ton. Today the Japanese are rapidly making themselves masters Tn this American domain Not only have they. supplanted every otler race that might furnish labor supply, but they are surely-and not at all slowly crowding the American business man out of the islands. The numbers of Japanese immigrants and their de- scendants in the islands are given by the federal census of 1920 as 100000, although the estimate of the Terri torial Board of Health in 1921 was II4,ooo. Taking the lesser figure as safe one, about 4o,ooo of these are island-born and hence are American citizens. By virtue of the Constltu- ton of the United States, all children born on American soil, which Hawaii is today, are American citizens, ire spective of the nationality ot the1r parents, even though that nationality be one of those not admitted to cltl- zenship by naturalization. These American citizens of Japanese origin are increasing rapidly in numbers, the high birth rate of the Japanese higher than that of any other race Tn the islands-being evidenced by the fact that of the total number ot ch1l- dren born in the islands in 1921, halt were Japanese.
 According to the 1920 census the Japanese constituted 43 per cent of the total population of 255,ooo. With a lower death, rate and higher birth rate than any other race group III the islands, it is obvious that their pre- Donderance in numbers will soon reach the point of actual numerical control. Of 26,ooo voters registered at the time of the last general cleo ton, in 1920, 5000 were of Japanese ancestry According to the census and the birth record of that same year, the year Io4o will see 10000 ls- land-born Japanese of age, all eligible to vote.
 But the higher birth rate does not set the limit to the increase ot the Japanese population There IS no let or hindrance placed upon immigration from Japan by our Washington gov ernment. The "gentlemen's agree ment" between our country and Jap an leaves it entirely in the hands ot the Tokyo authorities to determine the number of Japanese subjects who may migrate to the territory ot Hawaii. This agreement imposes no restrictions upon such immigration. It is left entirely at the volition of the Japanese government to regulate 1t at its source. Will that government regu- late 1t in accordance with the spirit of the agreement? Before jumping to any conclusion it might be wise to consider the history of the Japan csc occupation of Shantung and the piratical operations of Japanese col onists in the fruit growing regions Of California.
 The American-born Japanese, al though technically an American citi- zen, really enjoys the benefits of a double citizenship. But although the citizenship is dual there is no doubt whatever as to the allegiance. Wher- ever their loyalty has been put to the test-wherever the interests of the land of their birth and those of the land of their ancestors have come in to confict-the great majority, practi- Ill :.Aoad af thaSe "A rica n