The Hawaiian gazette., 1913-03-25
LEGISLATURE TO
PASS MEMORIAL
OFFICIAL ACTION ON THE SUGAR
TARIFF WILL BE TAKEN
RUSH WORK.

ANNh f'fAANiNtAN ~ ''hAFN'H
Before the end Of next week it is OK.
pcctcd that the territorial legislature
win act upon a memorial to congress
for the continuance of the tariff on su.
gar. This memorial is now being care.
fully prepared and it is asserted that
a canvass of the legislature shows that
it will be endorsed practically unani-
mously, by Democrats as well as by Re-
publicans.
This memorial win, il is hoped, have
some effect, coming as il will from the
legislature of the Territory, and it will
contain some of the strongest argu-
ments for continuation of the sugar
tariff which can be set forth.
This, however, is only one of the
many methods which are under way to
bring to the attention of congress the
fact that ruin for great industry and
consequent hardship upon the hundreds
of thousands OF citizens and others of
the United States will follow reno
val of the tariff At meeting of tho
organization committee headed by Ed
Towse, as subcommittee of the sugar
protection committee, which is in
y
scores of letters to legislators in Wash
ingtou and to other prominent men Of
the mainland were submitted all of
which went out on the Sonoma mail
last evening
Headquarters to open.
Incidentally the final arrangements
were made for the opening of the com
mittccs headquarters IA 5iIe'' 'SA.SAse..
| 4,
George Henshall in charge. The head
quarters win be formally opened Mon
day morning at ten O'Clock, at which
time meeting of the committee will
be held there at which number of
prominent citizens have been invited to
attend.
BY that time Chairman George r.
Carter will have returned from Hilo,
where he and A. l.. G. Atkinson went on
Thursday to organize the campaign
among the members of the Hilo Board
of Trade and other prominent citizens
of the Big Island.
At the meeting of the Manoa Inn
provement Club last evening in the ten
mis- clubhouse President Fred l.. Wal
, dron, who is also n member of the CEN
trail committee in charge of the sugar
protection campaign, was authorized to
appoint a committee of five residents
of Manoa to canvass the district and
concentrate efforts upon various con-
! gressmen in Washington. 1t was also
resolved to appropriate 800 to the
campaign fund.
Letter Is Unique One,
While many strong letters have been
sent cut, the following is so unusual in
its way, 80 distinctive, that it is sure
to interest. The names arc not given,
as 1t IL personal letter TO an exceed
/ ingly prominent man welding much in'
fluence in Washington
'iMy dear Louis:-Are you taking
any interest in the tariff question:
owe all are out here, just as n pa
tient would whose case was such that
the doctors were debating whether to
take off two legs or one, without CON
vincing him that there was any am
putation necessary.
Hawaii is the patient in this case,
the youngest and prettiest Of Uncle
Sam Is family. II he deprives her Of
part of his protection it will make her
very lame; the loss of the whole of it
won t leave her leg to stand on.
~ first knew the child when she was
merely an infant protegee of his; a
poor, little, Hawaiian girl, unaccustomed
to the ways and wiles of the great
world, but very willing to become
worthy of her kind protector. Like
many other little girls, however, white
as well as brown, she was not overbur-
dened with commonsense and gave way
to the allurements of prosperity, enter
tanned questionable company, put out
metaphorical tongue at her Uncle and
! presumed so much on his GOOD natura
that, after much hesitation, he decided
to adopt her and legalize his authority;
fortunate decision for both of them.
"That was in the days of his for
mer housekeeper who was always very
kind to little Hawaii and gave her all
the preference that was going, especial
/ ly did he encourage her in the produc.
ton of sweet and pretty things, like
sugar and pineapples, but now that
Mrs. Democracy is in charge of the
White House, II is being assumed that
the young woman does not need any
more encouragement or at least not so
much. and that IL will be better for the
family TO go to market for it's sugar
than to use the homemade article,
which is Of course, n great fallacy from
! the Hawaiian point Of view, and the OBJ
iect of this letter is 20 ask you to try
and get the Kentucky senators, with
whom you are acquainted, no doubt, 10
take m interest in this thing, the right
sort Of interest, the interest taken by
Senator Lodge Of Massachusetts, 40 that
when you pay us that promised visit,
we shall not have any abandoned sugar
estates 20 show You
Ass-
nRRhf ALTON HnITEHTHsp