The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-05-13
WOMEN To- VOTE
ON PLEBISGITE
Will Cast Straw Ballots to Show
the Men How They Stand
on Prohibition.
PLAN REGULAR ELECTION
Wife of Governor Heads Move
ment to Register Voice of
Women.

Impressed with the power Of united
womanhood toward the advancement Of
ciyilization by the address of the Hon.
John G. Woolley, a large number of
Honolulu women, headed by Mrs. Wal
ter F. Frear, yesterday resolved to or.
ganize their forces for a preliminary
campaign on the liquor issue, to hold an
advance election, and, by straw bal
lot, show such an overwhelming senti-
ment against the saloon that those who
are blessed with the right of suffrage
will feel in honor bound to respect and
yield to their united wishes.
This decision was reached yesterday
afternoon at a meeting Of the local
branch of the Women's Christian Tenn
perance Union held in the Central
Union church
Mrs. Frear said that she and Mrs.
Whitney had talked over with Mr..
Woolley the plan to hold an advance
election and that if the women present
at the meeting felt that they could do
the work which was necessary to CON
duet successful campaign and were
willing to go at it in earnest, she
would cooperate most heartily in the
movement.
Nearly all the women present rose
to the occasion when called upon to
signify their determination, and the
meeting adjourned with the assurance
! that the better halves throughout these
Islands will not only WELD their power
behind the throne, but make the still
small voice heard from now on until
July 26.
In his address, which consumed the
greater part of the afternoon session,
Mr.. Woolley declared that the present
agitation was not spasmodic attack
on the liquor traffic nor was it an affair
of any society or political party. off
civilization is to advance, the liquor
traffic must die,'' he asserted.
He spoke of the fight being waged
| against tuberculosis and various other
death breeding forces antagonistic to
the welfare of society and held the
liquor traffic as the deadliest of them
all.
"The war will go on, !" he continued,
sit may be a thirty years rebellion
but it will continue, for the liquor traf-
fic must die. If we are defeated in
this fight then we will take the matter
again before congress, backed by the
united voice of Hawaiian womanhood.
We used to feel that we had no friends
in congress, but since the prohibition
movement in the South and in other
parts of the United States has grown
to such proportions, men have been
sent to Washington who are more in
sympathy with the cause
When he broached the subject of
woman s suffrage to the national legis
lators he said, they advised that this
phase of the question be deferred until
later, so as to give more force to the
primary object for which the fight is
being waged. A fear was expressed
that it might confuse the two and pos
sibly jeopardze both, the advice show
ing that they gave the matter serious
consideration.
The speaker went back to the be
ginning of the crusade against liquol
and told how Doctor Clark, just 10.
years ago in old New England, under
took to correct the personal habits o.
, men and started to induce intemperat'
drinkers to sign the pledge. From thi
the movement started to grow ant
then various societies were formed t,
carry on the good work, and senti
ment developed which became NOR
general as time went on.
, Mr.. Woolley traced the movement III
to the present time dwelling with EN-
phasis on the greater achievements o
} recent years. " Suppression of the liz
, uor traffic Mr., Woolley declared
: again, els not a w. C. t. U. or pro
hibition struggle, but civilization
AGAINST its deadliest enemy, and in suci
= women should take an importan
!. part"
Speaking of the improved condition
of the present day he said "Much i
I due TO the training of homes. The me-
$ who have come to the support of thi
. cause, came from homes of Christian
, women.'
He deprecated the fact that womel
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