The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-04
AS NOW IN HAWAII

lesson to continental Onlted StaJeS. The Japanese in the islands constitute forty three per cent. of the population, and, Con account of their close adhesiveness and characteristic collective manner of action, have it in their power to control the indus tries of the territory as the senate immi- grafton committees report made public Thursday says If the Japanese continue to increase in numbers they may become the majority there, and have good claim to political recognition under the plea of self determination. In a word, the American naval outpost would become Japanese out post-all by the simple process of Japaniza- tion of the islands. Says the committees report:
 It is not merely question of saving
 Hawaiian industries from bankruptcy.
 The commanding fact is that the indus
 tries will inevitably pass into the hands
 of the Japanese instead of merely go-
 ing out of existence. Such transfer
 destroy the American control of
 Hawaii and in effect transfer to Japan
 control of the center of the Pacific
 ocean. Certainly such result would
 be of serious consequences to the
 American naval and military control
 of the mid-Pacific.
 Apply, now, the existing conditions in Hawaii to larger field, that of the United States; imagine the alien population here to be forty-three per cent, and with steady increase so that it is foreseen that at some al-too-early day the aliens will outnumber the native people, and the prospect is pre- sented of the United States passing from the control of it's own people into the hands of foreigners.
 The idea is not so fantastic as appears at first sight. It is true that there are only fourteen millions of foreign-born in this country now, whereas the native born num- Der ninety-six millions, but there are seven millions of the aliens who have not assumed any of the duties of citizenship, do not speak our language, and are "characters- tically collective" just as the Japanese are in Hawaii; and the more there are of alien immigrants the larger will be the propor- tion of the un-American contingent. The time may be exceedingly distant when the foreign element will be large enough to control, but the principle involved is the same regardless of time. America should not encourage in any way the growth of un-Americanism in this country.
 It is observed that MT. Davis, secretary of labor, says that it is planned to enroll the immigrants take an annual census of them, and provide for their instruction in Americanism. The secretary says, with true eloquence: "We purpose to Americanize the alien before he alienizes America" He adds that American citizenship must be be- hind honest patriotism, love of liberty and respect for law, and we must pledge our selves that representative government shall endure.
 We must pledge ourselves, further, that the tide of unassmilable foreigners snail be damned, and that, once for all, this re- public shall be protected from the danger of losing it's character-a danger remote, indeed, but nevertheless visible upon the horizon, carrying with it what MT. Davis characterizes as "a miasma of foul political and social doctrine which breeds fever of revolt agsiast law and order, a plague of hate and destruction"