Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-03-17
With Its Coat off

The Chamber 0f Commerce has IFS coat oil nov
and is rolling up its sleeves.
This charter fight is a job Of work. The business
men are going 10 it.
Yesterday morning not few Of the citizen VIII
lean up against convenient buildings on the street
corners and tell funny stories, were getting amuse
ment out of the prospective visit Of the Chamber 0
Commerce to the Capitol. And they told with gle
that the "ten.whstIe' scheme bad been called off
sort OF laughed out Of existence
Was il /? Not by exactly ten whistles. The,
sounded at the time specified and the COMMITTEE
Of One Hundred went 10 the place specified and car
red out the plan specified.
The businessmen went through with IT,.
And right there they called one of the politica
bluffs put up to scare them off. Right there the.
demanded showdown and the other side didn'
have thing except bluff that failed.
stories were purposely sent 70 Chamber of Com
merce leaders that five hundred Hawaiians had beer
organized to make INSTRUMENTATION an'
would march up to the Capitol too. with the objec
of putting the Chamber of Commerce delegation
permanently into the obscure background. After
few feelings, the story grew TO thousand instead
five hundred prospective Hawaiian dssenters
The businessmen gathered at the Chamber o
Commerce, sixty OF them, and went as a committee
10 the Capitol The Iemainder of the hundred wer,
already there or came Immediately afterward TIL,
chamber put its statement before the senator's
That is the stuff that makes trimming fghts-ldy
ina out progfGa that is cfoaHcnt and defnhe an
sticking to it.
The chaps who getting a lot of amusement
out of the situation yesterday know now that The
chamber means business
So do the politicians who are trying to put ovel
the rotten convention charter"
And here is something TO remember
The convention charter was to have been reported
ont Of the Oahu delegation day before yesterday
The program was cut and fairly well dried. The
men in and out of the legislature, who steering
the bill expected to slide it along smoothly this weel
and fnis1 their neat little job in the house with cler
ity and despatch.
The charter was not reported out In fact, YES
terday is advocates expressed very great surprise
oh, yer. Tery great, that the Chamber Of Commerce
should Be so hasty about its protests and its mani
festos. BECAUSE of course the charter bill had not
been nearly whipped into shape was not ready fol
report, etc. 60
And public meeting is called Monday night
In sofar as the neat little program for putting
the charter through this week is concerned the
downtoEn DIRECTORS have won point
But As stated before, this is a job Of work land
il is jug starting
There will be sbolitical tricks sprung. political
schemes cooked mp to carry through the "conven
ton charter practically unchanged
There will be other bluffs put up in the hope Of
scaringspff the faint-hearts.
There will leforganized opposition to the Cham
Der Of Commerce program. Very likely at Monday
nights meeting there will be attempts to pack the
galleries. against The chamber
This s not tossay that an expression of opinion
from any and, every man is unwelcome BY all
means IA every citizen voter taxpayers attend the
meeting Thc2Poola and the road.scorker has as
much right thffe dsthe banker or the dicyer or tn,
neirspdRer editor. And the Chamber of Commerce
will do well not bnt to present it's amendments to
the Legislature Int to present them to the Hawaiian
voters
That is only one phase of the campaign to which
the Chamber of Commerce has pledged itself
The members must keep going-be ready to attend
meetings, to attend hearings, to answer the cal
when il is sent out.
Yesterday was a beginning the scoffers and
buffers got an entirely new idea-the idea thai
after all, the chamber wouldn't clay down. They
know it now-and it remains for the men of the
chamber with backbone to drice that fact home 50
deep 1t soon't be forgotten.
Then things will begin to move