The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1918-04-02
UNITED ].
HAWAIIAN SOCIETY
!. ARE GIVEN CHECK
Attempt 10 Secure Incorporation
Charter Under Smaller Cap
itaIlzation Defeated
ONLY EIGHT MEMBERS re, .
PRESENT AT MEETING
Lack Of Race Pride Slowly Killing
Off the Race Is Assertion of (
Wce-presldent Holt

Failure to secure quorum at q gen.
eral meeting of the stock subscribers
Of the United Hawaiian Society called
for last night placed temporary check
on n plan which had been evolved by
the officers of the organization to secure
charter for the corporation through
reduction in the amount Of capital
stock. Only eight members were pres
emit
with vote of two.thirds Of the
membership of one hundred the $50 900
capitalization contemplated in the first
plans could have been reduced, for
the present, TO $40 600 and the necessary
ten percent Of this amount could have
been shown to be already collected, in
order that the territorial laws could
be complied with.
Despite race situation which, ac-
cordipg TO James l.. Holt, reveals that
the Hawaiians are spending $6,347,.
$40 annually for food alone, of which
practically nothing comes back into
Hawaiian hands, there was barely a
handful of the membership present last
night, and no meeting could be held.
that the meeting had been set on
holiday but officers of the organization
also attribute the failure to obtain a
quorum to the hereditary indifference
Of the Hawaiian race to vital matters
of race perpetuation.
Indifference Killing Race
1.-THE Hawaiian people do not realize
that their indifference is their undoing
and that the Hawaiians ara slowly and
steadily becoming extinct because their
race pride, is not sufficient to stimu.
late activity in such matters as these,
said James L. Holt, vice president Of
the society, last night. ~ have com.
piled figures from government Stats,
ties which show that the number of
adult Hawaiian males In the entire
Territory Is only 1929. If you figure
that these wage carriers provide for
the entire Hawaiian population and
that there are that number of families
in the Territory, then the cost Of food
is $6,347 $40. Figuring in the same
milnner,t we 4, find that. the, Hawaiians
spend $37, 800 a month for poi, and this
all goes to Chinese poi manufacturers,
"The failure of the Hawaiians to or.
ganize for any racial business enterprise
has placed us in the predicament of
having practically no interchange Of
currency among our own people" said
Mr.. Holt.
Hope to Get Charter
The plan of the officers of the society
is to secure a charter at the earliest
possible time in order that work may be
started and in order to bring into the
cndeavor several influential men who
are holding aloof until they have
proof that the thing is going propos,
i'ion. Also, Mr.. Holt says, there are
many Hawaiians in other parts of the
Islands who are only waiting until the
incorporation has been perfected. 1t
is believed that the society will be
able to incorporate for more than $40.
600 If the members turn out to the next
mreting,N which is now set for next
Thursday night.
That the society can eventually roach
the original $50, 900 capital stock issthe
belief of those who are pushing the en-
tcrprise. Two-thirds of this amount
has already been subscribed, but only
$1,000 has been paid in in cash.