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

to say was that they had not done
enough. vi Ill.," ..:..- 49,
F. E. Thompson frankly admitted
he had been guilty of apathy. AMI
Proceeded with remarks that were fun
OF humor and vim, eliciting laughter
and applause at every period. He
said he was a convert and found he
could even agree with George Carter
but thought he had net gone far
enough. The letter writing should be
card-indexed. They must have money
for the campaign. Hilo should be
asked to come in and also contribute
to the fund, for Hilo was wide
awake town. When Robert Single
put 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 be asked whom thew knew to
whom thy could write. There was
nothing like the the little per-
sc nal touch AS to firing off ammu-
Eit;on, lie. them begin at the begin.
ming shoot at the house of represent
atives. Everything that came from
that house unopposed came from
fetid atmosphere.
Thompson Urges Activity. 49,.
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 it successfully over
turn the effect of an adverse commit
tee vote of II to A. There must be
somebody in Washington to press ar
guments before the house COMMITTEES.
The speaker displayed a hook that
hrd 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 that cane
sugar was nearly everything, but there
was only $4,000 tons difference be-
tween cane and beet sugar in the
worlds supply. IL. -. n.
Congressman are the same sort of
cubs as the rest of us, said the speak
eli. "and we must reach them the
same as iuries are reached. Juries do
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.
Il never knew of anyone winning a
game by quitting in the middle" con-
Guided Mr. Thompson, land you can
pot 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 not
wanting to carry the message to Gar
eia" ~
Mr.. Carter agreed with Mr.. Thomp-
son and, referring to President Will
sons statement that industries should
not be destroyed, asked what the local
Democrats were doin".
The motion having been carried. Ed
Towse said that, to get down to
working basis, the campaign should
be conducted like political one. He
offered several suggestions OF action.
The special session was likely to last
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 time
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, to
show why other Industries were not
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
backs, taking the place of the whaling
feet supply business. Under the reci-
prucity treaty before annexation, only
sugar and rice from Hawaii were ad-
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
If 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.