Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-03-13

10 say was mat they mad not done
enough ..... 49,. .......
F. E. THOMPSON frankly admitted
he had been guilty of apathy. an
proceeded with remarks that were ful
OF humor and vim. eliciting laugStei
and applause. at every period. He
said he was convert and foNni he
could even agree with George Carter
hut though. he had net gone faI
enough The letter writing sh lul1 be
card-indeXed. They must have money
for the campaign Hilo should b.
asked to come in and also contribute
To the fund. for Hilo was a wide
awake town. When Robert Shingle
Tut UP $3.50 for Henry Warehouse
Trust Company he was going to write
seventy letters so as to get his money
back. People when contributing
should he asked whom thew knew Il
whom thy could write. There wa:
nothing like the the little per
onal touch" AS to firing off ammu
Lit;on. let them begin at the begin
ring-shoot at the house of represent
atives. Everything that came from
that house unopposed came from a
fetid atmosphere. 49,.
Thompson Urges Activity. .....
He told of the fight that New Or
leans made for the Panama exposi
ton, which was what woke San Fran
cisco up and made 1t successfully over
turn the effect Of an adverse commit
tee vote of IL to 4. There must be
somebody in Washington to press ar
guments before the house committee
The speaker displayed hook that
Rad informed him of many things
about sugar of which he had previ
ously been ignorant. He found that
fourteen or sixteen states were pro
ducing beet sugar and selling it. in
forty states. Some imagined th"t cane
sugar was nearly everything. but there
was only $4,000 tons difference be-
tween cane and beet sugar in the
worlds supply. ......:.
congressman are the same sort o.
Gnbs as the rest of u.s. said the speak
er. "and we must reach them. the
same as juries are reached. Juries d.
not think; they feel" The nawspa
permen in Washington were subject to
Establishments. Some of the facts in
that book should be taken to the
newspapers, especially the Washing
ton Post. - =
81 never knew of anyone winning a
game by quitting in the middle, con.
cluded Mr.. Thompson. "and you can
not win any game by beginning in
the middle. Get letters written for
those people who do not feel able to
write themselves. Stenographers are
cheap, and one can write hundred
letters a day from ordinary dictation
! do not blame Mr.. Carter for mol
wanting to carry the message to Gar
cia." ~ h =, ar
Mr.. Carter agreed with Mr.: Thomp
son and, referring to President Viii
sons statement that industries should
not be destroyed, asked what the loca
Democrats were dotnc. ~: ~ 8
The motion having been carried, Et
Towse said that, to get down to q
working basis, the campaign should
be conducted like d political one. He
cffered several suggestions of actton
The special session was likely to las
four months. and in four weeks they
ought to exploit this campaign.
Mr.. Carter suggested that the com
mittee should have power to appoint
subcommittee, and asked If the timf
of campaign should be limited, himself
suggesting thirty days. Mr., Thomp
/ son thought fifteen days enough.
w. o. Smith went into the history
OF the sugar industry in Hawaii, tt
show why other Industries were moi
established along with it. This was
in answer to question often asked
He showed that the industry was es
t. blished here only after many set
hacks, taking the place of the whaling
feet supply business. Under the reei.
procity treaty before annexation, only
sugar and rice from Hawaii we're all
mitted free to the United States, while
American merchandise of nearly I'll
kinds was admitted here free. De
pendence on sugar was made the
logical situation Mention should be
made in the campaign of the advance
ment of these islands in every line
Ct human progress and uplift under
the prosperity derived from the favors
to sugar in the American market
through reciprocity before annexation
and protection most of the time since