The Hawaiian gazette., 1894-05-15

with woe for STIMULI Jones on it,
and his wife had posted in the Kitchen
another placard with Vote for Hand
some Charley on it. Two thousand
| God Bless Our Homes were torn
| out and made Into bonfire. Ourself,
! the editor of the Red Dog Star, had
our ear bitten off by our wife, and was
compelled to hide in the hem house
over night, and share the supper of an
aged rooster. The Coroner reports
| that he has collected from the streets
| ten wagouloads of female and male
noses, bitten off through election diff
ferences; and the returns are not
all in"
Member from Nuuanu: ''If this is
which adjoins Wyoming, adopted
female suffrage by 50, 600 majority"
Member from Wailuku: because
Colorado is an ass. The Star of Denver
says that the silver trouble came
about through giving women the vote,
and a terrible dTouth came over 1t too,
and the gold mines are drying up
since women have suffrage"
Member from Kalihi: My friends,
did you ever hear of Flung
Shuey?' If you were in China
and proposed to build a rail-
road or telegraph, the Chinese
would shout 'fung-shuey.' 1t is an
evil spirit, they say, which is gener-
ated out of any innovation, and
spreads disease and death. Every
Chinaman trembles at the word. III
you offer to introduce an American
pillow, the Chinese cry 'fung-shuey
lit will kill u.s. If you offer to cure
them by any medicine other than the
making of beastly noises, they say
flung shuey.' If you offer to do any,
thing that has not been done before
during the last five thousand years,
they cry out 'fung-shuey ,"
Now we have much "fung shuey"
right at home. When it was proposed,
forty years ago, to give women the
right to hold their own property,
many people said "fung-shuey," ait
will break up our homes" When,
later on, it was proposed to give them
the right to make commercial con-
tracts and do business, the STARS of
America shouted "fung. shuey." But
it was given, and it was good. When
it was proposed that women should
enter medical colleges, the doctors all
got in line, with plenty of men and
women behind them, and shouted
"fung shuey." 1t was given, and it
was good. When, later. 1T was proposed
that women should keep their own
earnings, there was a howl of "fung-
shuey," lit will break up our homes"
But it was done, and it was good. So
it is with wOmen's voting. | cannot
help thinking that we had twenty
years of "fung shuey" during the
monarchy, when everybody said:
"DOn't make any change"
Member from Pawaa: "Wby don't
women rise up and claim the right to
vote ?n
Member from Kalihi: "All that
women get in reforms is through
mans intelligence, after he has got
away from flung shuey.' There are
a hundred women in town who would
vote if allowed to do so, but they
won't cry for it,"
The President: "Some woman who
seems 10 be enraged at the Stars
relegation- to kitchen theory of
women's condition sends the follow
ing conundrum, or something. will
read it: why is the editor of the
Star like a tune played by Paganini
on his fiddle p Because he will be
executed on one string'n
81 do not" said the President, CEN
dorse such such sanguinaTy senti-
ments. The Star may be right in
making preparations to suppress any
female revolt"
Member from Kalihi: "This is a
practical matter. If could gain any
thing for good government, / would
give women the voting power now.
Agitation does good it brings out the
enemies of the cause; you are abso-
lutely sure of finding out who they
are. One can paraphrase Horace
Greeley's remark about political par
ties; every man who opposes female
suffrage is not horse thief, but every
horse thief opposes female suffrage.
Some say that a woman shouldn't
vote because she cannot fight. Shall
we take the vote away from sick men,
who can't fight; or from those who are
too old to fight?"
The President: "The debate will
end. am 'kanalua.' We don't adj
nit women TO this club because we
fear they may capture it. l wish the
editors would agree. They are artesian
wells OF human nature; If one says
black the other is under an irresist-
able impulse to say white'-they
never want to pool their issues. One
thing is certain: Wherever women
enter, the unwritten law of chivalry
They may level up our. pol
itics.
4" We will ADJOURN