The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-09-12
our FRISCO LETTER
Continued from page one.)

University of California, and others Of
her stand
Inasmuch as the British suffragettes
won recognition by spectacular meth
DDS, their American sisters started the !
same tactics-with what result. Where
dignified British tradition was upset.
and this, of course, would cause an
upheaval American curiosity was
only excited
There wasn't an American legislator
who wouldn't drop the affairs of the
nation or state to watch or hear a
suffragist demonstration, well, well,
isn't this great; good as a circus"
was the legislators mental attitude.
Let EN- play with it if they want
to-" he felt, if he didn't say so. De-
lighted approval met every demonstra-
ton for a while, then it was, We'll,
enough of this, let's get back to work"
Humor is the hardest thing to fight,
and the women are beginning to re-
alize it. The men won't take their
antics seriously-so except in rare in
stances the ladies have come down to
serious facts-carefully and logically
presented. Beauty has had it's in
nings. Who wouldn't sit for hours
and listen to a beautiful suffragist? Or
an anti-suffragist either? And promise
both most anything. You couldn't help
it, that's also the average man feels
free to keep his inner opinions to him
self.
So the suffragettes are getting down
to sound arguments. They are trying
to make men believe that women
should vote. They are trying to eX-
plain that although women can't en-
force their laws after they make them,
they want to make them just the
same. They are going to force some
good laws on the men-and then leave
it to the men to enforce them.
And so the lady mayoress of Hun
newell Kansas, has sat these idle
months in the official chair. She can't
do anything-she has the power-but
the men won't help her out. This sit
uation is a thorn in the suffragette
side.
In Berkeley the other day, two love-
ly suffragettes went into bank where
they had accounts and asked permits
sion to put notice of "Votes for
Women meeting. The cashier was
all courtesy and smiles and the sign
went in. Ten minutes passed and in
came two OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES with
accounts. They had a notice, too, of
an "anti-votes-for-women" meeting. No
trouble at all to get that sign in the
window also.
And then the fireworks started. The
suffragists swarmed into the bank and
intimated that quite a number of &C.
counts would be withdrawn at once if
the "anti" sign was not removed. The
"antis" swarmed then with similar
threats.
1t may be a year or so, but it is
expected that the cashier will be all
right by that time.
In Los Angeles the suffragettes de-
cided upon a straw vote with a corps
of beautiful women to distribute the
voting coupons. A baseball game was
chosen for the test. Women were sta
toned at all the gates as distributors
Some of the men tore the votes W
, remarking that I'VE came to a base
ball game, not a political rally" The
majority took the slips however and
gleefully said, "Sure-who do you
want me to vote for?"
And when the votes were counted
the suffragettes were showed under
about two to one And to cap the
climax the small boys hired to carry
''Votes for Women" banners around
the grounds, got their pay then hired
out to the "antis" and carried their