The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1918-04-30
HANA|ANS PLEDGE
THEIR LOYALTY TO
CAUSE Of LIBERTY
More Than Fifteen, Hundred
Gather In Great Patriotic Mass
.,.aa Meeting Alfalfa Park I.iH
MAYOR FERN PRESlDES, -
NJ INTRODUCES SPEAKERS
Every Phase Of War Endeayor
Touched on BY Orators Who ",
Explain Need Of Sacrifice -

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More than fifteen hundred Hawaii
an people, men and women, demon
Estrated their unfaltering loyalty when
they gathered at, Aala Park yesterday
around a standard bearing the Stars
and Stripes and heard an inspiring
| program Of addresses, all but one Of
which we're delivered in the Hawaiian
tongue by Hawaiian orators. In con-
nection with the program of speeches
the Hawaiian Band stationed in the
grandstand gave a number of patriotic
selections. e.. w..
Mayor Joseph j. Fern presided at
the meeting and introduced the speak
ers, who touched on every phase of
patriotic endeavor. The topic Of
! Mayor FERNS Town Meeting of week
ago-the needs Of an interment camp
in the Territory where alien enemies
and those guilty of disloyalty may be
/ observation-disclosures again dwelt upon with
new emphasis.
"A scant hundred yards away from the
speakers Captain Henry Allen, who
| two weeks ago shot and killed S. J.
Walker when Walker insulted an Amer,
lean Flag, and who goes to trial in the
circuit court today on charge of MUIR
! der, served drinks at his little soft
drink stand. Several of those who
spoke referred to the naval emblem
flung to the breeze over the stand and
spoke of the tragedy that took place
there. sga rra
Need for Action
! 1t was pointed out by those who sookc
that unless action Is taken without de-
lay to place sharp restraint on those
Of German sympathies, who have been
permitted up to now almost as much
freedom as any loyal citizen, the prob
ability exists that more like Captain
Allen win come forward to take the
law into their own hands.
The ancient martial spirit of the Ha-
waiians, the spirit that inspired the
warriors of Kamehameha when they
followed their leader in the march up
through Nuuanu Valley, was lighted
anew by the stirring descriptions of
! how America allies, the British, the
= French, the Belgians and the Portu'
guese, have been ,grimly holding fast
before the German onslaught while tht
United States, her states and territor
les have been gathering their forces
/
locked with the foe in France.
Duty of the People
4. With our young manhood going over
seas the duty of all left behind in Civ
ing their full support by making every
sacrifice was pointed out by the speak
ers. While the young men of the Ma
ton are shedding their bolOd and lay
, ing down their lives to insure our safe
ty here at home, it was pointed how
recreant to every sense of duty those
left behind would be if they failed tC
do their parts.
The duty of those left behind il
plain, the speakers pointed out, an
it consisted of giving without stint OF
their resources and of lending to the
;. government every cent possible through
the purchase of War Savings Stamps
- anh subscribing for Liberty Bonds.
The need Of other sacrifices was alst
pointed out Food with which to fee
the armies in the field and the vas
forces in training in the great can
tonments scattered through the state
and the soldiers here in the Terri
! tory is the thing the Nation needs
1t is to be able to provide this needle
food, it was explained, that the PEG
: pie of the Nation have been called
upon to do withOnt wheat and withOu
meat on the Wheatless and meatles
days. Every failure to observe the re
quirements of the food administrator
means a blow struck for the Kaise
and the common enemy of mankind, Y
/ was declared.
Eben Low Speaker
'Eben Low WAS one of the list o
speak ers who spoke briefly in Eng
fish before launching into the Ha
waiian tongue. As a member of tn
= food commission he dwelt on the ques
tion of rising prices, saying that high
J er prices in the present crisis wer
, inevitable. He told of the work Of tn
= food ADM nistration and of the lOca
> food commission. saying that were
not for the rules and restrictions o
- the commission conditions here woul
be vastly worse than they are now.
To those who complained of the hig
prize of fish he said were ID not for tn
food administration, instead Of bein
able to buy fish at the present price
! there would be no fish, or If 1t weT
I obtainable at all, it might be Q dolla
"a or dollar and a half pound. Blae1
ly he referred to the fact that he ha
two sons serving with the eolors, on
IN the Mediterra mean. Besides thes
v sons, daughter, he said, is abOut
I 90 into the service as Red eros
nurse.
d Although he was not scheduled as on
A, of the speakers, Dr., j.. Chris o'Da!
e who was in the audience, was aske
e by Mayor Fern to mount the plattorl
u and deliver an address. He did thl
s. expressing appreciation of the spirit
q loyalty that had been made so eyider
n In the course of the program.
d Among the others who delivered a.
dresses were. p P. Woods, g, X, Kei
IA welaku, Sheriff c. II. Rose, J. uiuih
J. c. Lane, A. Akana, William Sheldo
and Robert Ahuna.
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