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Weather, Tarty Cloduy. ml Second Section Pares 1 to 4 HONOLULU, HAWAII TERRITORY, MONDAY, JULY 29, 1918.. hi JWIIwlf 1 1 11 wi H0N0LULAN HELPS TO TAKE CARE OF REFUGEES FLEEING Wooden-Legged Man Almost Gets Into BEFORE RUTHLESS GERM TINS Journey of Manila Official to Capital Arouses Speculation Belief Expressed That Governor-General's Secretary Is Trailing Man Who Makes Charges Against Enemy Property BEACH CROWDS SEE RESCUERS BATTLE WITH RAGING SURF Hundreds Anxiously Watch Canoes of All Types In Effort To Reach Man and Child IE VS. SUGAR LINK'S ISSUE IF HE EOTERS RACE But McCandless Is Beginning To Wonder If May Some Other Democrat Mightn't Be Better TO RUN OR NOT TO RUN; THAT'S THE QUESTION Joel Cox Writes of Interesting Experiences and Praises Cheerfulness and Courage of the Poor People Rumanian girls, and sometimes a couple of A. R.

C. officers (whose attitude toward their uniforms prevents much useful work) feed as many as two thousand a day, it may be computed that there isn't much time. We serve BIG FIRM FACES SEVERALCHANGES Alexander Baldwin's Loss By Death and Call Means Almost Reorganization As a result of the loss of J. P. Cooke, its president, by death and J.

R. Gait, second vice president by reason of his call into the service of the government, Alexander Baldwin faces something which will approach reorganization. Admittedly there is no one who can exactly fill the niche in business affajrs, whether of the firm or of the community, as did J. P. Cooke, but a president will have to be selected and in making this selection it is not unlikelv that a number of changes will result.

Already surmises as to the probable new directorate and official personnel of Alexander Baldwin arc heard. It is considered unlikely that the regular line of advancement will be followed. If this were done it would mean that W. M. Alexander would head the concern as president, but lie resides on the mainland and it is thought unlikely that he will return to Honolulu to head the firm.

Next in order would be J. R. Gait, second vice president, but he is an officer of the reserve and has received orders to proceed to the mainland, which removes him as a possibility. W. O.

Smith, is third vice president, John Guild is secretary and John Waterhouse is treasurer. From the active part M.r. Waterhouse has been taking in the affairs of the house for the past two years it is considered highly probable that he will be the successor to Mr. Cooke as president. If such be the case it will still leave two other- vacancies to be filled.

Army As A Draftee And He's Sadly Disappointed When He's Finally Rejected; Chinese Comes From Philadelphia; Third Dwight Boy Enters Service Men with wooden legs are becoming plentiful as the war progresses, but when a man ith a wooden leg attempts to enter the army, as did a Hawaiian yesterday, even army officials catch their breath. This particular Hawaiian, James Kawaiahao, was almost tag-dog for entry by local board No. 1 fn the armory yesterday, but for the fact that he happened to mention that he had never had a physical examination. Then it was found that his number was not on the day's list. Ninenty men had been passed by tho board and almost at the end of the line Kawaiahao came forward to the table, presented a registration card and said lie understood he was called to service.

Miss A. Gross, the chief clerk, endeavored to find his name, but just then Dr. A. F. Tackson r.tieed the man moving a bit stiff-legged.

He reached down, rolled up a trouser leg and thumped the man's shin with his fist. "A bit woodeny," said the doctor with a smile. "Yeh, I only got one leg, but I hear my name is called, so I come," said Kawaiahao. When he was placed among two or three other rejects, Kawaiahao 's face lengthened and he expressed himself as really aggrieved that he could not become a soldier for Uncle Sam. "Well, I'm a good sailor, anyhow," he concluded.

Comes from Philadelphia A scholarly looking young Chinese, wearing rim glasses, reported that he had come all the way from Philadelphia to answer his islands' call. Said his name was Kwai Shoon I.ung, born in Hawaii, and had had considerable correspondence with the board about his case. "I just got here this week and am glad I'm taken right away to be a soldier," said the young man, who left his studies in a medical college to join the Co'ors. Joseph Pontes showed his final card and induction notice and was tagged and about to join the line of accepted ones, when Judge Antonio Perry asked his name. "Joseph was the prompt reply.

"Step out," said the judge; "we decided your tease yesterday. You've got three brothers in the service now and you are to stay home and help look after the old folks. You're now in Class 3." Young Pontes, was, perhaps, aside from the wooden-legged the most disappointed youth in the. hall. The last man to be checked off was William Cottrell, custom house inspector, swimmer and instructor of swimming champions.

He received a very late notice of his induction, and 'phoned down to the armory that he would come as fast as the rapid transit could bring him from Diamond Head. He arrived just as the army doctor had finished his examination of the other eighty-nine. Third Brother Joins Joseph Love joy Dwight, son of Mrs. Ellen Dwight, of Makiki Street, is the third son of this family to enter the ec-rvice. The first one, George, went to Camp Meade, Maryjand, last year to join the gas and flame corps, and died in service.

Another brother wai the first of Hawaii's men to don a uni form as a draftee nt Fort Armstrong mobilization camp a few weeks ago, and is now, with reference to his brother, a veteran. John McCandless, a young engineer, rormeriy a captain tne national guard service, was accorded the honor of carrying the Flag at the head of the contingent when it marched from the armory to Fort Armstrong, under the command of Lieut. Leslie Thompson, q. M. C.

Eighty-four new draftees arrived from Maui yesterday morning, all that the island is required to supply to make up the additional thousand men now being assembled. Local draft board No. 2 has ordered 2fK men to report this afternoon two o'clock at the armory. The same board will issue another call for a second detachment before the end of the month. W.

8. S. RAPID TRANSIT IS HARD HOY DRAFT Many Pfatform Men Called To Service While Traffic Is Dropping For War Reasons The Honolulu Rapid Transit Land Company is hard hit by the draft, says General Manager Stuart Johnson, not alone because of the withdrawal of many employes from the front and rear platforms of its cars for army service, but because many of the men are picking up outside positions made vacant by the same draft call. The company is also noticing a lessening in the number of passengers carried, this being flue in a measure to (Continued on Page 2 Column 3.) LIVES ARE IN DANGER FOR MORE THAN HOUR Rescue Craft Is Wrecked and Other Parties Have To Go To Lifesavers Aid As a battle of human strength, ingenuity and skill matched against a raging surf that was running in npon the reef progressed yesterday noon hundreds of interested spectators lined the Waikiki Ix-nch from the John Ena tract to the Seaside Hotel, wrought up to a high pitch of anxiety for the lives of those who clung to frail craft awaiting rescue. Finally human strength won and the lives that were the stakes were saved.

At one time several canoes had been swamped and the struggle that began with an effort to save two persons from drifting out to sea developed into several near drowning incidents. Caught on Raft Capt. Herbert E. Weseott, taking his child with him on a raft, started out to the reef yesterday off the Pierpoint to gather coral. He" did not note until too late that he was being carried out beyond the reef into the blue ocean beyond.

When he did he raised the alarm that started the excitement and produced a series of incidents that threatened serious results. Cries far out on the water attracted the attention of a young lady" seated on the leach between lialekulani and the Y. XV. C. A.

beach house shortly after twelve o'clock. She saw some one, Captain Weseott as it proved, wildy waving and loudly calling from a raft out by the reef and below Fort De Russy. Immeditely she hurried to where the bathers were congregated in front of the Gray place and sought a life guard but there was none nearer than the Outrigger Canoe Club and William L. Rosa, deputy clerk of the United States court, Ernest Kaai and a second boy started to the rescue in a light canoe. Almost into the surf they sailed and then dropped the sail.

They escaped one great breaker but were caught by the next. The boys clung to the overturned canoe which soon was wrecked upon the rocks but Rosa started on to the raft which be succeeded in making. Rosa Rescues Child Taking the child upon his back, Rosa ashore with his precious burden, though this was seen by few on the shore who were in ignorance of who were the occupants of the raft. Seeing the increasing danger, two Japanese, one of them an employe at the Y. W.

C. A. beach house, went out in an outrigger canoe anil were soon in a position that took all their strength to care for themselves. More Complications Meantime E. Edgar and two companions out from Fort De Russy in a flat bottomed row boat, became caught in the current and were carried seaward.

Two- of these men left the craft and swam back to shore. Life Guard Summoned From Fort De Russy a telephone message was sent out to the Outrigger Club and soon two immense outriggers were manned with sturdy paddiers and skimming rapidly in the direction of the trouble center. Other boats were also seen to be working their way out to the reef but the hojes of the crowds were centered on the tw'o great outrigger canoes, among the occupants of which were "Steamboat Bill' Keawe-amahi, David Kahanamoku, Tyson Norgaard, Werner Smith, James Ifart and Lor riii Andrews besides several Hui Nalu boys. One of these canoes went beyond the reef and started in while the other followed the shore and then turned out. Strong swimmers Needed Anxiety of the crowd on the beach had now turned toward the occupant of the first rescue canoe which had been seen to swamp in the surf and could not be -distinguished from the shore while the man on the raft could be seen and was known to be safe But the trouble was not ended for tht big outrigger canoes could not get where the Kaai boy and his companior clung to the wrecked canoe.

The dif fieuity was solved when "Steamboat Bill" and Charles Lambert swam through the swiftly running current, using paddles as guides, and took off the boys. Captain Weseott was taken off, Edgar was picked up and the danger was at an end, the bathers once more gave their attention to bathing and the rescuers and rescued, all woru an weary, rested upon the shore after sr. hour or more of strenuous struggling W. 9. 8.

WAR STAMP SALES Postmaster H. Macadam gives th salpsof Thrift and W. S. 8." Stamj at the postoffice as follows: Tuesdav, Wednesday, Thursday. $31, Friday, Saturdar 'esittnated) 000; a total of 17,2.0.22.

With sales of lat Monday the total will go over Speculation in Manila' as to the reason for the sudden departure of Fred N. Berry, private secretary of Governor General Harrison of the Philippines, for Washington, seems to be answered by the shrewd guesses of Manila residents now here. After Berry left Manila all the newspapers commented on his hurried departure, for which no official reason was given. Now it is believed Berrv is trailing a critic of the Harrison administration to Washington to defend his chief against charges of showing favoritism to German interests in the handling of alien enemy property in the Philip- 1 pines. Just before Berry passed through Honolulu enroute to Washington a few weeks ago, he was preceded by a Manila resident by the name of Smith who told Honolulu acquaintances he was going to the national capital to protest the disposition of the alien enemy property in the Philippines.

According to Smith's assertions, German firms taken over by the custodian of alien enemy property in the Philippines were placed in the control of interests which were accused of having acted for Germany in under-bidding all others for the equipment of radio stations. A Significant Name Norman Campion, manager of the Calambra Sugar Estate on the Island of Luzon, says there was "Manila talk" that Germann Company were instructed by the Berlin war lords to get the contract for the equipment of the Cavite radio station, "at any a certain type of German machine would be certain to be installed, but failed to do bo. He says Germann Company are represented to be Swiss. Mr. Campion, however, says he heard no complaint before leaving Manila of the handling of the alien enemy property and thinks this is being attended to to the satisfaction of everyone by Archibald Harrison, a brother of the governor general.

Campion says he does not know who Smith is and that he never heard of him. Nevertheless, other visitors here from the Philippines think that Berry 's sudd-en and unexpected trip to Washington was caused by the cabling from here of the reason given out by Smith for his trip to the national capital. They think that when news of Smith's criticism reached Manila, Berry was detailed to trail him across the Pacific and the continent to Washington to answer in person any charges that might be made against the governor general. Departed Suddenly An inkling of the curiosity felt in Manila as to the reason of Berry's sudden departure for Washington is shown by the following from the Manila Times, printed the day after he sailed for. Hongkong to connect with the Tenyo Maru: Fred N.

Berry, private secretary to Governor General Harrison, departed on the Loonsang this afternoon at three o'clock bound for Hongkong, where he" is to connect with the Tenyo Maru for the United States. Mr. Ber-ry's trip is a sudden one, his decision to leave having been reached this morning. He expects to be back in the Islands in October. In the meanwhile, J.

L. Irwin, his assistant, will occupy the post he is leaving. "The Ayuntamiento this morning was buzzing with speculation as to the reason for the sudden journey. Many theories were advanced to account for the sudden trip of the governor general's confidential man, but there was no official intimation of any governmental reason behind the journey. "Mr.

Berry, himself quizzed by a Times man, declared that his journey was a purely personal one. He said that when Mrs. Berry left on the last transport his plans had been to stick to his desk in Manila, until next spring when he would go to Japan for a short rest and meet Mrs. Berry on her return. Yesterday an opportunity presented itself, for him to take a three months' vacation and as he had been on the job steadily for three years without a day's rest, he decided to avail himself of it.

"Pressed further, he said that he would spend some of his time in Washington and would there look into certain official matters connected with the insular government's relations with the United States, which could be attended to better by a personal visit than through correspondence. mm mm mm 8. 8- CHINESE FALLS FROM LADDER AND MAY DIE Ng Chack, Chinese fifty years of age, partner in the Quong Sing Loy dry goods store on King Street near Ntm-anu Street, fell from a ladder ''in the rear of his place of business yesterday afternoon shortly after five o'clock and was probably fatally injured. The injured man wag taken to the emergency hospital and npon being examined by Dr. R.

G. Ayer it was found that he had sustained a serious fracture at the base of the skulL He was taken to the Queen's Hospital where little hope is held out for his recovery. Ng Chack. assisted bv his fifteen year Feeding thousands of refugees from Picardy throughout long nights, caring for whole families including the livestock they managed to save as they fled in advance of the German army in May, Joel Cox, son of Principal I. M.

Cox of the department of public instruction of Honolulu, is doing much to assuage tho'se suffering from the hardships of war. As a member of the Society of Friends, Mr. Cox is associated only with the non-combatant forces, but now and then in his letters there is just a militant gleam as he refers to the Bodies. In recent letters to his wife, Joel Cox says that the outstanding feature connected with the crowds of refugees is their everlasting hopefulness for the future, despite the fact that some of those with whom he has come in contact have fled three to four times from districts suddenly brought into the zone of terrible warfare. In a letter from Paris, dated, June 7, Mr.

Cox says: "I have managed to keep really busy for the last week. From nine in the morning till six at night I have been working on a geological map, doing a good bit of work at the Ecole des Mines. It is tremendously interesting and quite hard work, as I have to learn both French and geology at the sarnie time. "I have bought a French text and am furnishing up nil the scraps of knowledge I got (and kept) from Dr. Branner, anil learning more, all in the new language.

It 13 quite a cram course, but the map is coming along nicely. Vast Refugee Station "From six till ten at night I work at the biggest outgoing refugee station, a huge freight depot converted to its present use. One long warehouse is fitted up as a hospital, resting room with steamer chairs, a canteen and general relief station. The refugees are brovight over in camion loads from the incoming stations, loaded down with possessions, leading what they cannot carry in the way of live stock, surrounded by a cloud of children. They are so tired that they are ready ot drop, but are always cheerful in most striking dogged way, and are never too weary to be overflowing with gratitude.

Most of them would be delighted to talk to us if we could get time for such luxuries, but as three American Friends, half a dozen American, French and Cop's New Uniform Fooled Sam and Was Badly Damaged Kakaako Resident Failed To Recognize Officer In Unaccustomed Glory and Proceeded To Muss Up His Clothes Sam Keliipuleele, residing in Tlani-wai Street, Kakaako, has not been wised up to the fact that the police officers of Honolulu have been issued brand new uniforms during the past few days and as a result of his ignorance, languished in a cell at the city prison last night, following a merry battle with Police Officer August Carre! ra. Carreira was sent for by Mrs. Keliipuleele last night to quell a small sized riot which she said her better half had started in Kakaako following copious1 libations of swipes. When the officer appeared on the field of battle, Mrs. Kelipuleele said that her husband had beaten her up considerably and threatened to do much damage to other neighbors in the vicinitv, or suffer the consequences; Annoyed I by this interference, Keliipuleele emphatically questioned the right of the officer to e.nter into the argument and when told by Carreira that, he was a police officer, the Hawaiian jeered and said that he knew a police officer when he saw one and forthwith smote Carreira heavily upon the neck.

A bit of jiu-jitsu on the part of the police officer followed, combined with a few short arm jolts and Sam was bundled into the patrol wagon and taken to the city jail, where he will answer this morning to charges of drunkenness and assaulting an officer. Carreira '9 new uniform cap was badly damaged in the melee. old son, Jsg Sau, was engaged in cleaning off an iron roof in the rear of the Sing Loy store. He was standing partly on the top of a ten foot step-ladder and partly on a light wooden brace on the building when the latter gave way and he crashed to the concrete floor below, striking on his head. Ng Chack ha sa wife and thre esons, one of whom is in the national guard at Fort Shafter, He is well known in Honolulu, having made his home here for a number of years and has a wide circle of friends in Chinese business and social circles.

Accuses Interests of Trying To Throttle Rice Industry To Get Chinese Laborers "Link' McCandless, who has the habit of running for delegate to con-press on the Democratic ticket, will run on a rice platform this year if he runs at all. A statement to this effect was made by Mr. McCandless yesterday. But "Link" may not run. Whether or not he will he says he has not yet decided.

lie is beginning to wonder if it is not just barely posisble that there is some other man in the Democratic party who might make a possible candidate, who might even run faster and farther than himsedf. not-withtasnding all his experience. Truly, "the world do move." Mr. McCandless was asked yesterday whether or not he was ready yet to announce his candidacy. lie wasn't.

He was still waiting, with one ear pressed closely to the ground, he intimated, to ascertain from the leaders of the Democratic precinct clubs whether or not there is a loud and insistent demand that he once more enter the lists. But even if such a demand should be voiced in stentorian tones, the hitherto perpetual candidate, whose aspirations have up to this year bloomed biennielly with all their pristine freshness, said he wasn't at all sure he would heed the Macedonian call. He might, and then again he might not. Not Scared, Anyway But if he doesn't run, it will not be because he is afraid to go before the people on his rice record. He wanted that made perfectly plain.

Indeed, he intimated that should he launch an offensive once more on the oft fought-over political battle field, some of the shots he would fire at his enemies would be in the nature of nee pellets. Rice versus sugar will be the campaign issue upon which the veteran candidate will make the raee if he makes it. Asked if it was fear of attack because of his difference with the food commission over the question of rice prices that might keep him out of the Tace, "Link" waxed eloquent. A rice platform, he asserted, migth be just as good in Hawaii as one sweetened with sugar. Referring to the suggestion by "Bystander" in The Advertiser yesterday that a local songsmith was grinding out a campaign song for McCandless entitled "I didn't raise my rice to feed the soldiers," "Link" said that was not entierly correct.

He didn't raise his rice, he said, to fatten plantation laborers at three dollars a bag les3 than they are willing to pay for Japanese rice. "I am not afraid to go before -the people and explain my stand on the rice question," said the Land-Locked one. Blames Sugar Men All the trouble over rice is blamed by "Link" under the "iniquitous sugar And he drags the skeleton right out of the closet and rattles its dry bones in the full light of noonday. The sugar men, he says, always have tried to kill the rice industry in Hawaii. Now they are trying to do it I.egallv while they have the opport unity.

This is the way Link states the problem and works out the answer: "The bet cane cutters in the Island's are Chinese. "Nearly all the Chinese laborers are engaged in cultivating rice. "Therefore, if the rice industry were killed off, the Chinese would have to work on the sugar plantations, thereby alleviating the present labor shortage. E. Defends His Actions McCandless defends his action in Belling Hawaiian rice above the price fixed by the food administration with considerable heat.

He says he was complying with the request of the food commission and selling his rice for eight dollars a bag, three dollars less than the price Japanese rice was bringing in the open market. Then, he Bay, California rice was imported and sold on the market for sflO.1'5 a It was after this that he began marketing Hawaiian rice for the same figure, regardless of the food commission rules, which eventually led to his arrest on a charge of profiteering, and th question of the constitutional jty of the food commission's powers carried tip to the supreme court, where it now awaits a decision. He nays it was "Hunnish" for the food commission to try to dictate the prico of Hawaiian rice, when no control was assumed of the price of imported rice. McCandless asks the question, "What would the sugar men have done?" if they hud been ordered by Hoover to their sugar at several dollars less a ton than the sugar of he Philippines, because of the difference in the freight rates between Ho nolulu and the mainland, and those them with porridge or soup, chocolate or conee, Dread, etieese, sausage, Hgs, and bar chocolates; hand out cigarettes, give them places to wash and rest, distribute clothing, and help them with mountains of baggage. led Four Tunes "It is one of the most interesting expediences imaginable and gives one a tremendous sense of the meaning of some things.

Some of these people have had to flee as many as four times from enemy advances, and there are not many things about the realities of war that they dod not know, but thej are tne most uoggeuiy noperut 01 people, and except in the case of old people, of whom there are many, including one old woman of ninety-two, one's sympathies are not torn by any hopelessness. Rather is one's admiration constantly exalted by the splendid courage and marvelous cheerfulness. "From ten o'clock till the next morning I have had to nurse my roommate, Doctor Outland, who has been seriously ill with influenza. He is now at the hospital and I am beginning to sleep up a bit. Undisturbed By Shells "I believe that I can sleep through any air raid that the Boche can manage, at least until I get caught up again.

"Lowell Chawmer was in to see me last night. The yoor kid has been four weeks in hospital with pneumonia, rather an unhappy initiation, I should think. He is just about well now and expected to be back at work next week. The Murrays are supposed to be somewhere on the Somme front, and Birge Clark is lost to knowledge these many moons." On June 9 Joel Cox writes of a new "My business," he said, "has changed to idleness and I have been two days on my back with "a lisht attack of grippe caught from Doctor Outland but I am now quite convalescent. I am having a very delightful and comfortable time of it.

more of a rest than anything else. I have the finest room in the house with three French windows opening on to the green trees of the avenue and the soft blue sky." Palolo Resident Wants Police to Stop Cow Concert. Critters Moo Day and Night, He Says, and he Wearies of the Sound; Demands That Sergeant Put an End to the Music Cows mooing both night and day, in a neighborly sort of a way, get on the nerves of C. Bain, a resident of Palolo Valley, according to the story he tohl Sergeant Poaha at the police station yesterday afternoon. Bain came into the police station all set up and demanded that some restraint be put on the vocal efforts of several cows residing in his neighborhood, which are said to be the property of one Mooney.

I' have stood this cow music about as long as I intend to," Bain expostulated, as he blew into the station and disturbed Sergeant Poaha's reveries over the falling off in crime in Honolulu and the dullness of things in general around police headquarters. "These cows moo all night and they moo all day and I want you to put a stop to it at once." would you suggest that I do?" inquired Sergeant Poaha, with some curiosity. "Suggest! I would suggest that you go out there immediately and stop this cow concert. You are not busy anyway and I see no reason why you couldn't hop on a car and go out there now and end this annoyance." "Well," replied the urbane and courteous sergeant, "I have stopped everything from an I. XV.

W. meeting to a couple of wahines fighting over a jug of swipes, but when it comes to doing a lullaby to a bunch of cows. I confess I'm stuck and would hardly know how to go about the proposition. I suggest that you take vour troubles to the fire department and tell them to Chief Thurston." The irate householder from Palolo left the station, cussing the inefficiency of the police department. FULL DRESS IN SOUTH DAKOTA Deadwood Pioneer -Times The company win appear in full uniform, minus the coats, hats, decorated with the regulation blue and white cords; trousers, shirts and army shoe.

W. 8, S. MRS. PITMAN GETS CREDIT FOR BILL Wife of Hilo Man Instrumental In Securing Congressional Action on Hawaii Suffrage Measure The vicotry which was won in congress to extend woman suffrage to the women of the Hawaiian Islands is said to have been latgdy due to the efforts of Mrs. Benjamin Pitman, of Boston, wife of The late Benjamin Pitman, who wis born in Hilo, but who lived for more thnn fifty years in the Massachusetts metropolis, and died about the first week in July.

The following staimer.t concerning local suffrage was sent from New York to the Christian Science Monitor en July 11: The National American Woman Suffrage Association expects that the Hawaiian legislature will piromptly extend to the women of that country the same territorial and municipal election privileges as the Hawaiian men enjoy, since the United States congress has "passed a bill authorizing such action. The Hawaiian legislature has already shown its disposition in the matter, since it hi3 sent twe memorials to congress urging such action. The association reports that this suffrage victory is largely due to the efforts of Mrs. Benjamin F. Pitman of Massachusetts, who has been working for them.

Mr. Pitman is a son of the Chieftainess Kinole of Hilo, who was extremely influential among- her people. When her son, after fifty years' absence from his home, returned there, he found that the people had transferred their allegiance to him. "In the days of the monarchy, Hawaiian women took great interest in politics and could be effectively active. The women are today, as heretofore, possessors of great wealth, and hold a large share of the property.

The men fully appreciate the wisdom, public spirit and executive ability of the women, both of the native and missionary classes, but since the monarchy ceased to exist and Hawaii became a territory of the United States, they have been obliged to take their place beside their American sisters of the unfranchised states. The men of Hawaii believe, with us, that taxation without, representation is tyranny, and have gone as far as they can to rectify the injustice," said Mrs. Pitman. "It was known in Hawaii," she continued, "that I was greatly interested in this subject, and almost immediately upon my arrival I was asked to hold suffrage meetings. I sown learned that I -nna in a suffrage country, that the suffrage bill had been voted upon fav-oarbly by both the Democratic and Kepubliean parties.

It was my privilege to be present at the opening ot the legislature, and I was able to interview members of both Houses. F.very man to whom I spoke, including the president of the senate and the speaker of the house, expressed himself in favor of suffrage. Hawaii had passed an overwhelming vote for it and the Delegate had been commissioned to lay the bill before congress. There it had tsopped, as far as they knew. Everyone was awaiting the outcome, and as the months went by without hearing one way or the other, I promised the women of Hawaii to inquire into the matter." (Continued on Page 2 Column 2).