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Show Fear Japanese Will Get Hawaiian Land HONOLULU, T. H. April 21 Robert Rob-ert W. Shinglo, territorial senator and member of the legislative commission which recently returned from Washington, Wash-ington, in an open letler to the Pacific Commercial Advertiser published here, declared that many congressmen congress-men opposed opening of public lands in Hawaii to homesteadlng because of Increasing numbers of Japaneso in tho territory obtaining American citizenship. citizen-ship. I "The United Statos congress is almost al-most unanimously adverse to the granting of homestead privileges on highly developod public lands in the territory of Hawaii, becauso it is by no means satisfied of the completo sincerity of Americanism in the grow- ' ing class of o!tW--'ip in these islands," is-lands," the letter said. "I allude to Hawaiian born Japanese, Jap-anese, thousands of whom annually come into the sacred inheritance ot American citizenship. "Neither congress nor I has any in-J in-J tention of calling into question the In this territory. Howevor, America learned a bitter lesson of nationalization nationaliza-tion during the past five years, one of which cost dear in blood and ideals." The problems involved In efforts to obtain a homesteadlng law, were based upon a dcslro of tho territorial legislature to provide some means for restoration of public lands to Ha-waiians. Ha-waiians. Public lands have been leased leas-ed and control obtained by others than Hawailans. To secure a roturn of these lands, an expiration of leases, to Hawailans, a rehabilitation bill was submitted to congress and urged by the commission. oo |