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

The Chamber of Commerce has its coat off nov
and is rolling up its sleeves.
This charter fight is a job of work. The business
men are going TO il.
Yesterday morning not a few. Of the citizen VIII
lean ND against convenient buildings the street
corners and tell ffInhr stories, were getting amuse
ment out of the prospective visit of the Chamber
Commerce TO the Capitol. And they told with gle'
that the ..ten-wbistIe scheme had been called Off
sort of laughed ont of existence ...
Was it2s~Not- by exactly ten whistles. The!
sounded al the time specified and the Committee
Of One Hundred went 10 the place specified and ear
ried out the plan sperifed. III
The businessmen went through with it."
And right there they called one of the pOlitica
bluffs put up to scare them off. Right there the1
demanded a showdown and the other side didn'
have thing except bluff that failed.
stories we're purposely sent TO Chamber of Com
merce leaders that five hundred Hawaans had beer
organized to make connter-demonstration anc
would march up to the Capitol, too. with the obiec
Of putting the Chamber Of Commerce delegation
PERMANENTLY into the obscure background. After {
few feelings the story grew to thousand instead o.
five hundred prospective Hawaiian dssenters.
The businessmen gathered at the Chamber o.
Commerce, sixtyeof them. and went as a committee
already there or came Immediately afterward The
chamber put its statement before the senators.
That is the stuff that makes uitlling fghts-Idy
i,9 or program that is cleancut aud dcfnite and
sticIang to it.
The chaps who were getting lot Of amusement
out of the situation yesterday know now that the
chamber means business
SO do the politicians who are trying to put over
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 are steering
the bill expected to slide it along smoothly this week
and finish their neattle job in the house with cer
ity and despatch.
The charter was not reported out. In fact yes
ierday its adyorates expressed very great surprise
Oh, yes; very great, that the Chamber of Commerce
<honld DE hasty about its protests and its mani
estos Because, of course, the charter bin had not
been nearly whipped into shape, was not ready for
report, etc. q
And public meeting is called Monday night.
n 50 far as the neat little program for putting
The charter through this week is concerned, the
hawthorn objectors have won point.
Dutsas stated before, this is a job of work and
a is just starting
There will be political tricks sprung political
schemes cooked up to carry through the @conyen.
ion charter FracticaIly unchanged.
Ihe1f will be other bluffs put mp in the hope of
soaring of the fainthearts.
TheIx will be organized opposition to the Cham
Der Of Eommsfse program Very likely at Monday
night meeting there will be attempts TO pack the
galleries agaihstithe chamber.
ThisIis not to say that an expression of opinion
rom any and every man is unwelcome. BY all
means let every citizen, voter, taxpayers attend the
meeting The Poolq and the road porker has as
mach night there te banker or the laaryer OF the
Hewspdper editor And the Chamber of Commerce
viz doswell bot0nly to present its amendments to
ne legislature but 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 nembers must keep going be ready to attend
meetings to attend hearings, to answer the call
when i is sent out
Yesterday was beginning-and the scoffers and
buffers got an entirely new idea-the idea that
after an, the chamber wouldn't s'lay down" They
know i now--and it remains for the men of the
chamber with backbone to drire that fact home so
deep e soosft be forgotten.
Then things will begin to move