The Hawaiian gazette., 1912-04-12
All Ready to Give Their Plea
to Secretary of the
interior.
BACKING UP KUHIo CHARGES
Form Hui to Appeal for Their
"Rights" to Settle on Land
of Fathers.
(From Wednesdays Advertiscr.)

(From Wednesdays Advertiser.)
With the announcement that the Ku-
hio crowd had opened headquarters at
room 80 Young building yesterday,
came the news that, under the leader
ship of a prominent local politician,
the women of Hawaii are forming
hui to "'back up'' Cupid's charges
against the Governor, when Secretary
of the Interior Fisher reaches Homo
lulu.
Whether the information was inten-
tionally allowed to "leak,' or came
out in spite of the Atkinson -Shingle
crowd could not be learned, but it was
assertained that for the last few days
eyery effort has been made to keep the
formation of the women IS hui secret.
At all events the ears of Secretary of
the Interior Fisher when he arrives,
will be assailed by the pleadings of
uthe poorp for the land, which it will
be alleged has been withheld by cruel
and hard hearted territorial administra-
ton. The movement has been engi-
neered by a Hawaiian politician for
Hawaiian women. 1t is planned to
have an association wait upon the sec
cretary shortly after his arrival from
Washington. The organization is de-
clared as part of the general plan to
bolster up the charges made against
Governor Frear and his administration
by Delegate Kuhio.
May Meet Today.
A meeting of the Hawaiian women IS
association may be held today to fur
ther perfect their organization, and ad-
ditions to the list already in the hands
of the politician are expected The
movement was begun about six weeks
ago, and has been kept alive by fire.
quent meetings and more frequent can
vassing expeditions of the man in
charge, whose motto is ''The more the
merrier.
When the movement was first launch
ed it was supposedly in the interest OF
Hawaiian women who really had de-
sire to go back to the soil, build little
homes, cultivate the land and raise
their families upon soil that they could
call their own. There were government
lands of this Island which were consid-
cred just what they needed.
Plan Broadens.
The politician, however, was not con
tent with just a few names. He broad
ened his activities and began to en-
large the membership. Gradually the
secret leaked out that the whole propo'
sition was merely a plan to make a
demonstration before Secretary Fisher
to show him that here were fifty OIL
seventy five Hawaiian women, pleading
their right to obtain public lands upor
which they could build homes and ge
away from the tenements of the city
into the pure air of the country.
1t would be splendid stroke to senC
such delegation of women to 'cOn
vince the secretary, that here was
sample of what Kuhio had been charg
ing against the Governor for two oil
three years 1t would be public
demonstration of the "'fact' that the
people We're pleading for homesteads
and could not get them.
The homesteads these people are sup
posed to want are in the midst of tn,
fertile areas of Aiea district and in
clude some lands on which cane il
grown by the plantation.
Keep Plan Secret"
The desire to avoid publicity ant
notoriety, in order that the surpris'
could be sprung at the psychological
moment, went to such extremes in tn
last week or ten days that the wome
have been instructed to "keep this mat
ter from the haoles." They were t
keep the whole plan secret, refrai
from talking about it in quarter
which would lead to information bein
handed over to the "haoles," Will
the politician at the head of the move
ment has plugged along increasing tn
roll membership. The association
expected to possess political pow(
which will be far-reaching in the can
paign against the Governor.