NIPPONS IN HAWAII WILL FIGHT FOR MIKADO

Japanese in the Islands Assure Their Emperor They Will Die for Him in the Event of War.

BROWN MEN READY TO STRIKE AMERICANS

United States Residents of Pacific Possessions Are Indignant Over the Secret and Treacherous Conduct.

The Hearst News Service.

HONOLULU, Friday, Nov. 8. -- "Should the emergency arise, we offer ourselves courageously to the state, thus to guard and maintain the prosperity of our imperial throne."

This was the message delived [delivered] to the Emperor of Japan in Tokyo on Sunday by a special messenger sent by the Japanese residents of Hawaii. Accompanying the message, which pledged in such unequivocal terms support to the home government in the event of war, was an address conveying in extravagant phrase the loyalty of the Emperor's subjects in these islands and acquainting his majesty with the progress they had made in learning, in assimilating the benefits of the white man's civilization and in material prosperity.

Perhaps it did not require this plain declaration to acquaint Americans with the fact that in the event of a conflict between this nation and the arrogant little conqueror of the Slav every Japanese resident of America -- colony and mainland -- could be counted upon as a foe, ready to do his utmost, openly or under cover, to aid his Emperor.

Patriotism Is Proverbial.

The inborn patriotism of the brown man is as proverbial as his treachery when dealing with an alien. But the manner in which the address to the throne was prepared and forwarded well illustrates the need of carefully watching the Japanese in Hawaii should any occasion arise when they can do their home government a service while striking a blow at the land of their temporary adoption.

So secretly were the Hawaiian Japanese canvassed and so quietly were the meetings conducted at which preparations were made for the dispatching of a special messenger to Tokyo that not until yesterday was a white resident of Honolulu aware that the action had been taken. How the news leaked out is known only to the territorial officials, who have lost no time in acquainting Washington with the facts. There is great indignation among Americans here, not so much because the Japanese have pledged their loyalty to the Emperor, but because of the secret methods pursued at a time when the brown residents of the islands were perturbed over the ordering of the battleship fleet to the Pacific and actually believed that war was near. Had they been open in their expression of patriotism less would have been thought about it.

Japanese Are Ready.

It is known that the Japanese in Hawaii maintain a compact organization which is ready in any emergency to place itself at the disposal of the home government. Since the relations between the two nations have appeared strained as a result of the American attitude on the immigration question, followed by the ordering of the Atlantic fleet to the Pacific, there has been great activity in a secret way among the Japanese. Frequent meetings have been held and what occuers [occurs] at these gatherings has been carefully guarded.

In the event of any clash between the United States and Japan, the Japanese in Hawaii will be as a unit in giving loyal support to the Emperor. And every subject of the oriental monarch living here is firmly of the belief that such a conflict is near.