Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 286, 17 August 1893 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

The St»r t > kes occ;«si»n Ust night to p»ublish a violent attack on the Japanese residing in Ha<vaii, because the Japanese government h.is dem&nded thit the Hawaiian g»vernment shail taltil its treatyobiigations and give to ihe Japa-n‘-se who emigrat»Hi to this coontry thes\me rights and privileges as enj»yed by the best favored nations. The Slar willulU misrepresents ihe matter and spreads itself ab »ut giving the franchise to l»w—classed c»)olie laborers and at»»»ut the P. G. “rebulliug ? ’ the Mikado and similar bosh. The Japanese g»vernment does not ask f»r the francl»ise for the eoolie Iabor introduced bere. It simply demands th.it a Japanese who fultiis all theother necessary qualifications ofexercising the rigbt »t v»ting uuder the Hawaiian constitution uud laws ahall be granted ih at nght and not barred because he is an Asiatic. There ean be no doubt that the Japanese g»vernment is right in the preiuis“3 aud that it is enlitled to and just>fied in demanding the fulfilment of all and every 8tipulation contamed in the treaty between Japan and Hawaii. The granti»:g of the Jauanese g»vernment’s request will have. f»»r the preseut, very little practical importauce. Very few Japanese ean read a»-d write the English language nor do the raajority of thera fulfil the other conditions necess.iry to be a v»ter. The merehanla, a»d storekeepcrs and physicians who live here, pay taxes and as u whole make excellent ciliz“ns should not be of their civil rights, becaii9e they bapp»en to have been born in Japan. Webelievethat tbe provisional governra“ntaetid unwisely in refusing the demand of the Japanese govemaienl, beciuse treaties betwecn nutions sho'ild be sacred and kept t » the letter—and there ean he no doubt that by the Hawaiian-Japa-nese treaty, the J:ipanese are entitled U> tbe franchise in Hawaii.