The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-02-15
United Request Will
Be CabIed to
Congress.
Twsnty-Four Societies
Hold Meetings
Today.
(From Mondays Advertiser.)

Today, at meetings of twenty-four
women IS organizations, a vote will be
taken on the question of memorializing
congress to grant to Hawaiian women
the same right to cast a vote for or
against prohibition as is to he granted
their husbands and their brothers.
The leading women of the Territory
are at the head of this movement. Mrs.
Walter F. Frear, wife of the Governor
of Hawaii, has thrown herself into the
work earnestly and with her are the
presidents of practically every women s
society of Honolulu.
Will Vote Anyhow.
If it is learned that congress will not
give to the women of Hawaii any word
as to the preservation of her home and
| her children, the women will vote new
ertheless, on the same day and during
| the same hours as the men. Their vote
| may be "straw" vote, but in effect
| it will probably be as potent as that
of the regular results of the regular
polls.
| Congress Has Power to Agree.
The leading lawyers of the Territory
agree that congress has full power to
grant the right of the ballot to the
women of Hawaii at the plebiscite,
should it see fit. The plebiscite is to
test public opinion and what is the ma
iority opinion of the women in this
question is quite as important, if not
even more important, than the major
ity opinion of the men.
Not Suffragettes.
The women of Hawaii are not suf-
fragettes. They are not demanding any
political equality with men, nor are
they DESTROYS of taking any part in any
election. They do want, however, to
be allowed to register their votes on
the prohibition question, question in
which they have direct and vital in
terest.
Representatives of some twenty or
CARNATIONS met yesterday and mapped
out a plan of campaign. Yesterday
some organizations met and took imm e
: date action. Today there will be meet
ings in scores of places of organizations
whose membership includes Thousands
of women. Tonight, the result of these
meetings will be cabled on to Wash
ington.
All Women Interested.
The women of Hawaii are lining VI
on this matter without distinction o
, caste, social condition, color, wealth o
! creed. The College Club, the women
athletic clubs, the Hawaiian women
societies, the church organizations, tn
teachers in the schools, are all in line
The meetings yesterday were thos
of the Ladies' Aid of the Christian
Church, the Epworth League of tina
church, the Woman IS Board of Mission
, of the Christian Church, the Epwortl
League of the Methodist Church an
the Ladies Aid Society of that church
e and the Christian Endeavor Society 0
: Kawaiahao.
9 Meetings Today.
: At the meeting of the represents
y tives of the twenty or more secula
!. societies yesterday, upon the questio
b as to what part the women of Hawai-
may take with reference to the pre-
posed vote on prohibition, it was d'
cided that meetings of the several o.
, CARNATIONS should be held and tina
j the action taken at such meeting
should be reported by their respectiv
D. officers at a meeting to be held at hal
IS past five this afternoon at the paris
d house of Central Union church.
It What Is Wanted.
The question and the only questlo
to be decided by each organization
this:
D SHALL WE A5 AN ohu aro =
IZATIONS IN CABLING TO cor
r GRESS A REQUEST THAT TIL
Is WOMEN OF HAWAII BE ALLOWE
y TO VOTE ON THE QUESTION o
PROHIBITION
me question ID not whether tne
spectiVe Organizations or their memDe
are ior or against proh,pitioh OF "het
r. er they DeiieVe that the iegisiatioh
10 TINS SUBJECT shouid be by congress
10 by the territorial legislature, put on
a. whether or not to ask congress to Pc