. The paradise of the Pacific: the Hawaiian Islands [electronic resource] . ation^ from indolence to a good degreeof progress, as the descendants of the followers ofKamehameha. r T III fr T T 1 I i I T 1 I ■ I ■ ^^ CHAPTER XI. THE JAPAiq^ESE AND CONTRACT LABOUR INHAWAII. I ^HE Japanese and Chinese now comprise overforty per cent, of the population of theHawaiian Islands, and are already more than halfof the male inhabitants. This situation becomesmore striking when it is realised that the formerhave more than doubled in number during the lastseven years. This influx has been due largely tothe
. The paradise of the Pacific: the Hawaiian Islands [electronic resource] . ation^ from indolence to a good degreeof progress, as the descendants of the followers ofKamehameha. r T III fr T T 1 I i I T 1 I ■ I ■ ^^ CHAPTER XI. THE JAPAiq^ESE AND CONTRACT LABOUR INHAWAII. I ^HE Japanese and Chinese now comprise overforty per cent, of the population of theHawaiian Islands, and are already more than halfof the male inhabitants. This situation becomesmore striking when it is realised that the formerhave more than doubled in number during the lastseven years. This influx has been due largely tothe influence of the sugar planters, who havelooked to the home land of these races for cheaplabour with which to carry on their industry. Naturally these Asiatic elements are beginningto be felt. Of all the foreign immigrants toHawaii the Japanese have excited the most talk,if not real concern, as to the dangerous outcomeof the rapid increase of this race on the the annexation of the islands to the UnitedStates the situation has been modified somewhat, 146. FlIltlllfltillTI JAPANESE AND CONTBACT LABOUR. 147 but the grave fact remains that the Oriental ele-ment is still a power in the island territory. In1894 Admiral Walker^ who was in command ofthe American navy in these waters^ said: They(the Japanese) are inclined to be turbulent; theystand together as a solid body^ and their leadersare said to have political ambitions^, and propose toclaim for their free m^n the right to vote underthe conditions with which that right is granted toother foreigners. They are a brave people^ withmilitary instincts^ and would fight if aroused toviolence. Japan is the England of the East. AdmiralAmmen, in 1896^ wrote a letter to the Congres-sional committee : It does not require a prophetto foresee that those islands in the near futurewill be either American or Japanese. This Ori-ental power^ still in its infancy, had then a largernaval force in that vicinity than the United States
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