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Show SUGAR PLANTATION JAPS BEHIND TIMES HONOLULU. T. H., Feb. 1. That SO per cent of the Japanese living in I the augar plantation campa of Hawaii Ha-waii never have been touched by Christian propaganda and that American Ameri-can plantation ownera, managera and othera who have helped support Japa- I neae tfuddhlst missions, "did a foolish thing, if ever man did." were two of the statements made by the Rev. Ulys- ses U. Murphy, representative of the . American Bible society. In a recent address ad-dress here. The Rev. Mr. Murphy alao aald that the elder generation of Japanese living ; In the plantation campa. owing to their Isolation, are forty years behind their ; native country In thought and under- standing of modern conditions. ' Any attempt at Americaniantlon of the Japanese In Hawaii which leaves untouched their home life and falls to . recognise thst the key to the problem : is the Japanese language schools. Is . foredoomed to failure, the Rev. Mr. Murphy declared. |