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with  much  enthusiasm.  Women  rule  the  home  and  preside  over 
the  early  years  of  school  life.  If  they  take  up  this  reform,  it  will 
go  on  to  victory.  It  means  everything  for  Hawaii  that  the  Col- 
lege Club,  uniting  as  it  does  so  many  of  our  cultured  mothers,  of 
our  most  competent  teachers  and  of  other  leaders  in  every  sphere 
of  influence  dominated  by  women,  has  committed  itself  heart  and 
soul  to  this  great  national  movement.  There  are  no  agitators  in 
the  world  like  women.  The  record  of  temperance  education  dur- 
ing the  past  twenty  years  is  making  this  more  evident  as  State 
after  State  downs  the  liquor  traffic.  By  carrying  the  campaign 
into  home  life  with  its  character  forming  conservation,  by  leaven- 
ing social  groups  with  the  new  spirit  of  conserving  what  God 
has  given  our  Nation,  by  filling  school  children  with  right  think- 
ing on  the  subject,  by  multitplying  just  such  delightful  meetings 
as  this  of  today,  Honolulu’s  College  Club  is  helping  one  of  the 
most  vital  reforms  in  America  speedily  to  triumph. 
OTHER  ADDRESSES. 
Among  other  speakers  Judge  S.  B.  Dole,  whose  long  residence 
in  the  Hawaiian  Islands  authorizes  him  to  speak  in  no  uncertain 
way  on  the  subject,  bore  testimony  to  the  detrimental  influences 
which  have  been  at  work  in  the  Territory  to  deplete  its  resources, 
although  he  appeared  inclined  to  think  that  the  injury  wrought 
was  not  so  widespread  as  was  supposed.  The  Rev.  H.  B.  Res- 
tarick  also  addressed  the  meeting. 
The  following  letters,  bearing  upon  the  Conservation  move- 
ment in  Hawaii,  were  read  by  Mrs.  Knudsen  at  the  conclusion  of 
her  address : 
LETTER  FROM  THE  HON.  GIFFORD  PINCHOT. 
United  States  Department  of  Agriculture,  Forest  Service, 
W ashington. 
New  York,  December  26,  1908. 
My  Dear  Mrs.  Knudsen : — You  have  been  kind  enough  to- 
suggest  that  I might  send  through  you  to  the  women  of  the 
Hawaiian  Islands  a word  about  their  share  in  the  great  move- 
ment for  forest  protection  which  is  now  sweeping  over  the 
whole  country.  I do  so  with  the  keenest  pleasure,  because 
the  part  of  the  women  in  this  great  movement  has  everywhere 
been  not  only  an  important  one  for  the  present,  but  the  essen- 
tial part  when  we  come  to  consider  the  future.  It  is  just  as 
natural  for  the  women  to  occupy  themselves  mainly  with  the 
condition  of  the  Nation  in  the  future,  when  the  children  of 
today  will  have  taken  charge  of  the  National  affairs,  as  it  is 
almost  inevitable  that  the  men  will  give  their  principal  atten- 
