The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-02-16
QUESTION or
WOMAN SUFFRAGE
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of the home is affected by the ballot
and the women of Great Britain rich
and poor alike, wealthy or destitute,
have risen in a mighty body to nc
longer appeal seeing that attitude
was useless, but to demand the rights
controlled only by the ballot and de-
Inied them and their children for so
many generations. It is because the
/ British laws are so stringent in their
DEGREES whereby, for instance a Wi
dow at her husbands death is de-
Iprived of the management of her own
property, even though it has descend
| ed from her own people, and because
| the eldest son alone and his direct
heirs on through posterity are given
the sole bounty, that the mothers
have found more sorely their need of
la voice in need, are naturally more
desperate, so the fury which has drir-
en- our English sisters to acts of vio'
lence, has not been transmitted to us.
Although there is not the vital need
of woman's suffrage in America as in
the older countries, yet the ventur
ing into commercial fields where so
many thousands of our women have
been forced, compels it. Woman has
found her commercial value and she
is now encountered in every path of
the professions and the business
world.
And if this be true of the main
land, why not of Honolulu and in fact
all other parts of the so-called civil
lized world?
In Hawaii as is well known, at least
thirty-five per cent of our women are
out in the world following various and
diversified occupations, such as teach
ers, office employees and heads of
many departments.
On the plea that there is no JUS
tice in discrimination we must assume
that if Congress grants to our wo-
men the right of suffrage on this par
ticular question it must grant it in
all those laws which affect the fam.
lily life:
Women for example, have no voice
in the education of their children
And who is more fitted to decide this
vital and all important feature thar
the mothers of those children? True
=, there are women on boards of educa
- ton, but these are appointed by men
Little young lives are easily moulded
and for the small children it hal
been frequently asserted, the olde
i and more experienced teachers SHOULD
" be selected.
=, There have been some very strOn
i, arguments made by women in Homo
!, lulu in favor of womans suffrage. On
made by bright, experienced woma
!, of education was as follows:
At "For myself l totally disapprove G
men iuries for trying women. TIL
II law tells us we are tried by jury c
e our peers, but are men my peers
le Can men understand the feelings an
motives of women? I think not. An
5 if I commit a crime, for which me
". find me guilty, I at least want some
a thing to say in the making of the rop
o. whereby ! must be hanged. I shoul
not like to see young ineXperience
IS school girls on juries, understand, bl
in women of experience in life, prefe
III ably those who are or have been wive
and mothers. Women sometimes sa
s. to that, Well you would not be dea
KS with so mercifully,' what an absuT
~. declaration. Is the court room a cha
IN table institution? I should not expet
Ar mercy there, but Justice And that b
nc the way is what we do not often fin
in juries composed of men. Let m
ba cite you an instance on record.
bv "a few years ago in Rhode Island
10 pitiful case came into court. A w
. man drived to desperation by tt
=, drunken stupor of her debauched al
worthless husband in a mad fren2
struck and killed him. All night 81
at trudged through the country with h
On five little children and carrying
no young child in her arms. They caugl
a. her at last and she was thrust in
Nv prison. They waited till her bal
ya was born and weaned, and then
or the face of protests from women &
cd over the country, and in the face
the fact that she pleaded she WI
frenzied with care and grief and kne
not what she did, they hanged he
A jury of women would have undo
stood that woman's feelings, and n
only would they have pardoned h