The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-05-12
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inv Ia.i hight io take joint aption With
thc tormuW Club upon tHo mattct oi
Female suffrage Miss Bottle Mu.h
presided and tho hula daucar. sang. A.
various times during toe evening poi-in-
thc-calalash aud riu-in-thc-elass wcrc
passed around aud there we. on cnthus.
iasm for the rauso which showed itself
iu q dclirious use of yowcls whenever
the namps oi the Advertiser on Of the
President of The Cocoanut Club were
mentioned. A large allegorcal crayon
was hung over the Chairmaus mat rep
resenting the President la q comfortable
holoku amounting with cocoauut oil the
head of kneeling wahine in pants, the
whole surmounted 10y the legend "rhe
Dear Friend Of Woman
The opening address by Miss Bollie
Mush written by the old NAM was Ia
kanaka, but it ran about as follows;
Ladies, we're on deck Tonight 30
assert our majority rights and give the
hand OF fellowship TO the Cocoanut Club
aud 10 the great man who came here
from America (when the fighting time
was over to rescue our country from
the haole. lie wants to give rs the bal
lot and and that's what we are after
and don't you forget it. When the last
census was taken there were 1902 full
blooded native females in the group and
3l0l half-white females. On the other
hand were $50 American females, 362
British females and 3O5 German females.
II we can get the vote and help the Ka-
nakas and the white Royalists, We'll
make the haole think tidal wave has
struck him in the neck Hurrah for the
the Cocoanut Club and here's TO it,"
Voice in the audience: Drink
hearty"
At this point in the proceedings
Heresy Tartbright arose to make some
remarks. With great acumen she said
that the Constitutional Convention
would probably subject both male and
female suffrage to an educational quail
fication and property test, and that
would rule most OF the wahines out
"Well, we can read and write, came
in liquid Hawaiian from a mat at the
further end of the hall.
eyes, and we've got property, too, "
remarked fat wahine who sat near the
chairman's end of the room.
Bollie Mush then rose and said that
her respected parent was in the house
and she would like to hear SOME re-
marks from him on this point. He
arose somewhat unsteadily, but by hold
ing the window casing was able to keep
his feet His mind, however, was clear.
He talked with great eloquence but
broke down once with emotion when,
while making gesture with his foot, he
knocked over square.faced bottle and
spilled its contents.
IL am here, said old man Mush inn
pressively, "to add the weight OF my
personal influence (hic) to that OF the
President of the Cocoanut Club. He
and ! were pillars Of the throne together
in times past and worked for the same
great ends. Both of us accepted foreign
missions at the hands Of Kalakaua, and
both OF us made the most OF our oppor-
tunties as good Royalists should.
shall always admire the improvement
made in the King when the President
took him abroad and set him a good eX-
ample. Nothing could make me prouder
except to be the author of free gin bill
than to aid him in his great work foi
the wahine. Hand in hand we will &C
in this phlanthropic labor until we are
both crowned with the leis OF victory
and anointed with the cocoanut oil o
peace.
"Now, about the question raised by
Heresy Tartbright: For the lower hous,
there would be no test at all except vot
ing age, sanity and freedom from Jail
You'd poll full vote. Again: Out OF
the vast number OF wahines OF the right
sort, there would be enough, | do mo-
doubt, who read, write and pay taxes, tC
more than offset the number Of haolt
women who would 90 to the polls to vote
for upper house candidates. The wa
hines would all be there and the few
haole women who would start for tn,
ballot box and stand in line would ge
sick of being jostled and would leave
for home. Then you and us Kanaka
and our friends the white Royalist
would drive the demned missionar,
with sharp stick. We might not b
allowed to get control of the uppe
house, but representing as we woul
twelve out of every fifteen votes actu
ally cast in the country our protes
would get to Washington with both feet
Just add the wahines to our votin
strength and the haole vote will look s
small in the United States that nobod
would pay any attention to its wishes
Then we can get lick against an
nexation in another way. If Japan i
given the rights of most favore
nation a great many educated and wei
TODD japanese will settle here and the
and their women will also vote-an
with us. Now look at it When tn
missionaries try to get the Islands al
nexed the Senate will say: "You wal
us to take in State where not onl
native and japanese men are a votin
majority but where that majority hi
been doubled by giving the native an
japanese women the ballot. NJ
thanks. We have race and soci
problems enough of our own withol
taking any mixed up ones of yours
settle
II salute the President of the Coco;
nut Club, and if he'll give us ten wahr
voters to one white woman voter, "
IA. tbat his ,,rava il liant Oraan