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PAGE TWO LANCASTER EQUAL SUFI OKI K'KltS: President Secretary Treasurer Press Chairman Within less than two weeks after THK the passage of the federal suffrage IT amendment six state legislatures had (Chi ratified. The vote in New York and One Kansas was unanimous. In Ohio, ures v Illinois, Wisconsin and Michigan in a It there was a large majority. The tural Pennsylvania senate has voted fa-'cerneil vorably, and it is practically assured of the that the house will also ratify. The, the In house of the Texas legislature by ajwould vote of ! t> to 21 adopted the resolu- Ameri tion ratifying the woman suffrage per ut amendment. Senator Westbrook. same senate leader, says 1 3 of lift senators of for and the president of the senate are van Pt' pledged to support the resolution. This Missouri has called a special ses- have I sion for July 2 for the purpose of culturi voting on the amendment. Colorado eially will also have a special session as will the A also a number of other states. j and of Kentucky. Maryland. Mississippi, tieular Virginia. Massachusetts. Rhode Is- results land. South Carolina and New Jersey, I'ot; have regular sessions of their legis- gredie latures in January, 1020. The pros- vatlon poet of ratification by 36 states in vast s time for the presidential election ITiited seems very bright. ! use co The fact that there Is no longer a the st "sold south" in anti-suffrage senti- its use ment is forcibly demonstrated by the the gi eagerness for the calling of a special' could session in Arkansas. A one-armed; most r Confederate veteran. S. K. Sweet. 76 cotton years old. of Widener. wrote Mrs.' of the Cotnam. suffrage leader In Arkan- of cott sas, that if the representative of his war y< district did not have enough patriot-1 For ism and manhood to give one day potash and ms expenses for a special sessiou the mi he would pay it himself. "1 was bom from 5 a xutTragist and national prohibition-'war sli ist. If the mother of our children is was si not competent to vote, hundreds and ably b hundreds of men who have their! eountr; land titles in their wives' names cor- facturi lainly ought not to have that right." perimc Hardly had lie made the proposi- ressful tion when alone came \V. T\ Me- brines Cutclien, one of the leading met- other chants of Widener. "who wanted to p,M ,,,, go halvers." and immediately there- on tin after came another merchant, w ho source, wanted to p;:v a third, so that the The state will have no e\pen ns connect- ?;i i d witli one representative tartan Will South Carolina fall in line now a with \rl<ansas. Tennessee and Texas tection in helping to save the south from the nation fearful blunder of voting against the estuhli ratification of the suffrage amend- m,.a ment? It is generally conceded that jine \ the women of the west ia the states |rv to where women vote, east the neees- for 0Xl| sary votes for the election of I'resi- ^o loot \n-in iiNiiu. (mimi iiiu weniocraiic cja| ,|\ south vote against the o<|ual suffrage | amendment the women in tho suf- niontal frage states where party lines arc the p( lax will almost eertatnly retaliate by j,. >ting against the nemoeratie party ,, J (lerma m the next presidential election. .... . manuf Without the votes of women the man d Democratic partv in the 10 2 0 clocprodur t ion is doonieil to defeat ' came t tin .Way 0th the second chamber ol win of the states-general in Holland pass- |( _ j ed Hie bill for woman suffrage by 64 s jtj to 1 () It is practically certain that n j the llrst chamber and the queen will ( ronfirm this action. chief i ?*,.noil,uiiii women are voting in ^Vlll|j(. Great Uritain. I w;iH ,() Fifteen and a half million women . hf'r|) U 'in the Fnited States live In states that have already given women the ( ^ right to vote for the next president, policy There are only eight states in the other i I'nion where women have no voice govern In any part of tho government. ' 1 have ti of con flats off to the fair-minded and was pi forward-looking editor of tho I.an- (jshed caster News who is boldly and ef- four y fectually championing the cause of s" woman suffrage! Carolina shffra- 11 clainie a: i a: r aiso ;i piin-ninivr cm iiio sllf <'?!(> strong support of tho Charlotte Ob- ,0 oov server. vide s Money Rack Jf-j H( ?-rr ISTE1IL Help You. ? Aftk Your m Druggist BR NEWS, LANCASTER. S. C. pot-' commercial telegraph operators and the appointed a com mitten to rnnf?p with THE LANCASTI However that may be, all these "RAGE LEAGUE as'1 plants were established in knowledge that they would be c on to compete with the lmp< product if they expected to stu Miss Margaret Moore business after the war ended. . ..Miss Nannie Hill Moore than that, it is convincingly ar Mrs. S. L. Allen . that the price which congress is Mrs. Leroy Springs ed to tlx is utterly disproportii I to the capital invested in these ash plan.*. Under the met MKANS to TUB l-WUMKKS Tending at Washington the far trleston New. and Courier.I "r, ,,"n ""ury "onld pay $24. . , . . . 000 a year to sustain this ii ot the most important meas- , ^ _ , . ... ... i try, and $16,000,000 of this am I'hich has come belore congress .. , I woviul come from the five stati >ng tune, so tar as the agrieul-, . , . ? ? Alabama, Florida, (leorgia, > interests of tho south are con- ... . . . .... . .. , . Carolina and bouth Carolina. 1. is the bill now in the hands , This is assuming that the far wavs and means committee ot ... . . , of these five .states, and of the ? nuse ot representatives, which , , ... Atlantic seaboard states, buy fix the price ot potash in . . ... ... manufactured product at the ca for a series of years at $2.o0 . . - , ,. it is proposed to fix. Flint in of actual potash and at the ... ., ... would do so is very question time restrict the importation .... .... , They will buy some, of course; eign potash until the Amen- , ... .... ..i I uvumn some I'vpn wnue prices oductiou is consumed. I ' ... ... . - j , , , , running as high as $500 to $0 > bill it enacted into law would ,. ,v ton. Hut they have bought pi the gravest effects upon agri- * * ^ ... .. ... at sucli prices onlv because there e in tins section. It is espe..... _ ,. the expectation that the prici imperative that the farmers ot ., . . . . cotton would be above 30 cen tlantic seaboard in general, .... ... .. pound, and even then they bp this immediate section in par- * ,. . . . .... 1 very little. The use of potas realize at once just what the , , , ; this country has dropped from a i would be. I . . . ., .. . . ' 240.000 tons up to 1014 to less ish is one of the essential iu- _ 50.000 tons this year. nts of plant food iu the culti-i ...... . 1 One other point. It was show ot certain staples. There are . . . . ... the statement of Mr. J. Ross 11 tretches of country in tho . ...... . , . , . .. . han, published in the News States which do not have to , , 'Courier yesterday, that over 50 mmercial fertilizer at all. In, . . . .. ., , .cent of the potash used in ates ot the Atlantic seaboard 1>OT,sn _T" > is vital; and without potash . , , ' " * * ' ' ... ... country is used in Alabama, Get rowing of cotton successfully , ^ .. ' . and the two Carolinas. The t not be continued very long on i , , . , .. , , r ... , .. ! states which are large purchase! ?f the lands of this part of the . ,, ... . . . potash are all on the Atlantic i belt. Lack of potash is one . ... ..... , .. ... except a few in the middle belt, main reasons why the yield , ,, ....... .. Ohio. Indiana and Tennessee. on fell off as it did during the . . , freight on the domestic potash I *ars. I , A. . .. the plants in the western si a long while prior to 1914 the' . , . , ... . . . i where most of it is manufacture used in the Lnlted States in' , , . . , i ten times as high as the freigh unufacture of fertilizers came . .... . , i imported potash was before the Strassfurt and Alsace. Hie. ? , , .. I The net results of the bill nit off the supply. When it , , . pending can be definitely fore (en that the war would prob- ,, r Should it pass all tortus of po p a long one interests in this would cost the consumer from t v at once undertook to manu- , .... . to six tunes as much as the nnpn > potash here. All sorts ot ex- . , _ ... product formerly did Kainit. fo nts were made, the most sue , , suinco. instead ol soiling at $i..? being those with natural in Nebraska, California and " "s?'1 to t[o' wo,ll,! sH1 ,ho " western states. Seventv-Hvo '?r an,! X]w rr,>,Khl wol,hl ?' . , . , . nlil.v aj>j>ri?ximate $'jo ailditiona nt of the domestic potash put ,,, .1 's P'?in that t.ho effort would h market has boon lnun this roduro tho consumption of po very drastically. Wo know bv ;e various mli rests whirh in ? . . . . . . nal oxporionro what that w r period wont into tho tnanii, . , . moan. I ho yiohl ol cotton and ot potash in tins countrv aio . . .... , '>' crops would continue to fall skinp that tho\ be piven pro- .... . . ,vN hatever surplus of potash t by ronpress for the contin- . . , . , _ , , , , , , . , , was in the soil in 1014 has boon i of the industry they souplit to ... , .... . ,A ? "P ' nless the sii|?plv of this h. I lu ir plea on its fare lias ,. , ... predion! ot idant food is roni sure of plausibility. Ii is in , . tbo consequences cannot fail ti III i no sOiitimcnt it! this conn. ma t'Kou. take rare of the dve industry. ... ... It would he entirely apt to n itnple, so that we will not have ., . the proposed potash measure a c to Germany tor our rummer- . , ... to decrease production while es. But the analopv, in fart, .... . ' creasinp the cost. The bill has not hold. There are funda- .... , .. . , attracted much notice, probably I objections to the plan which ... , , 1 cause in the crush of the times Dtash manulfacturors iiree. . few people have taken the tro t of all, is the fact that the 10 inform themselves regarding n potash was not a German The fertilizer interests of Charle acturcd product, as the (.er- aro doinp a service to the puhli vest tiffs were. It is a natural general by protesttnp apalnsi t. 1 he foreipn potash salts passapc. The representative n rom mines, some of the richest papers of the south should look ch, those in Alsace, will now (p,. matter at once and brir French territory. Potash ex- homo to their readers. l'nless t these mints as a raw malt-rial js a nijht the bill is IiR. 1 >- to pas ihaustibln quantities; so much ran i,P defeated if the facts aro n I I- that for years past t ho 0|,;ar (o tlu, poople. oncern of the lierman A1 ki 111 ^ ate which controlled the mines LAROR liODV TO WORK h'?bl down the ??u t put so to FOR V 1 l-IIOl R WE p the price. To reject such a! of suppiv would he to ignore . . , , , , American federation of l.abor It c law of economics. Such a ... i-?.i i\ to I'revent I iiemplov nient lit could he dictated only b\ 1 liutn economic reasons, and to Shorter Week. they ought to he conclusive. I iinv such teasons exist? They Atlantic ( ity. June 2t? lot been advanced. It is true. American Federation of Labor rse, that a Rood deal of money 'be ''losing session ot its annual it into the potash plants estnh- mention here, pledRt-tl Itself to ol in this country in the past !l Peneral 44-hour week for wot ears. Those who put it there erafts throughout the I't with their eyes wide open to States and for employes in the sks they were taking. It is eminent service. I he demand d that such of them as have based on a determination to pre dec! have already made enough ''"employment, which the delej er their investment and pro-, 'b'^'ared is one of the two prii i handsome profit besides industrial unrest. other cause the decreased < troubled with female com- | ' lw? ing power of lln< dollar M r 8cve*"#l years. My hushund faetnrei> and employ, r-. were u for me u bottle of SI hi.LA , t(| "bridge the gap" and Inn from Mr. L Hamrlck, our " , . , . 1 wanes without anv eont rover* t which helped nie so much <ed two more bottles, and the Samuel (Junipers, president oi ittl^e completely cured no- I i federation, was erected with a sinly thankful for ihis r;i st of < beers late in the day whei onic Mrs. J. K I.ee. <?a. announced from the platform CHER MEDICINE CO. "r ,h" k"":" 11,11 ? brotherhoods the engineers, itttanooga, enn" ' doctors and trainmen had ap for el,arte,- in the federation fourth brotherhood. t e (irem pnoiav was meeting in Denver, ho sab bjr vw consider a similar application. ]3\ ^&fiSjMBSKthe firemen follow the exampl 1 B BmBp w H HBvBBi .,0 in >EE> HER I *> *? m ? jn addition to taking action 01 shorter work days the oonvei pledged its support to the stri in the I IJ hope of obtaining for the telegraph- HB the to I 1 gued phone workers. A resolution was " ask- adopted requesting congress to in- JJA >nate| vestigate the alleged suppression of jf' \ifttH|F pot- frt-e speech nnil other American inisure stitutions in western Pennsylvania, mors while another resolution severely : mjl r-. 000,- criticised municipal officials In To- : 1f ulus- lodo for employing discharged sol- ? A.x I ount dlers in uniform to perform civil po- ^ il ?s of Hce duty in a strike. lorth When the question of the 44-hour Stffjp week came up It was apparent all i ylfgffll mors delegates to the convention, as well I .nnrtt}[nitTTill ither as all the officers of ihn foiiot-i>ii?^t? H 111 111111 ill II11II thte worn inclined to tho view that the It ilHlff:: '' price shorter work day was one of tho : IHIIItfn they most vitally Important subjects ap- |||j ml: able, provod hy tho reconstruction conven- : llllllfllimrTiThi were I The convention finished its busl- : (|| j||[jfff : 00 a r?>ss by rushing through about 50 ; {{|||llllff >tash resolutions, many of which dealt with liillll 1 nT ' ' '' f was jurisdictional disputes and minor it Mini Iff::::::::: 1 of boycott matters. The executive : 1 1]||1| 5:: ts a council has been authorized to select "HfHtiim - tight ft,,, next convention city. lillllilln :: bout CHANGES IN PROHIBITION J than ENFORCEMENT MEASURE J |j|| ! = !; = = : = = ; Chantte In Provision Permitting llilllllm"' and Search of Private Homes Seize HIIHIllTT'* " per Vehicles Carrying Liquor. tUlllllifl ' ""i Washington, June 26.?The pro- |||| II | jjft : | >rgia vision of the prohibition enforce- TmHIIIIm -M ***^ L? >ther ?,onf t>in permitting search of prirs of vafe homes for contraband liquor N,I" joast \Vt,on tlio warrant was sworn to "by V ^ like least two creditable persons." was w* \\stricken out by the house judiciary TTha Trom committee. The system of search as r|tffiTT>?n|T^fTTi :ates p,.0V(,j0,| jn ,h0 espionage act was V , ^ 'sj substituted. ? nn * "" rnder provisions of tho enforce- ^ wai ment act as tentatively mortified in * l~* nmN , committee, transportation of intoxi- |l^_ eating li(|uor in automobiles, aircraft Ull[ tash nr 0>i,t.r vehicles would prove an ex- Hill \// , pensive undertaking it the owner Is >^3 caught. As the bill originally stood. ^ ' it stipulated that the vehicle should " ,1S he sold at public auction and the difference between the selling price , 1 tji ' and the amount of the lines and the ' " costs should Im? refunded to the owner The committee chanced the pro- ?????????? ' vision to provide tit if surplus ' which might remain after the tines |ji!l and costs were paid should be given it II AsK Your Deal Tn to tho state. ||L-I1 DetninOto The committee also tentatively fil'V* UMC agreed to eliminate minimum penal- I H ^ ? p i ''' ties attached to violations of the HJI ufATKl 1 1*1 ZCJ law, for first offense to permit tho I FlrcattllS 6 AtTIl A<1' judge to use ltis own discretion in IKc y Write for Cat sentencing the offender. . tmcrcminctonarmsi aim- tutu quickly relieves Constipation, jEs ' 1 |,(U ltiliousness, lioss of Appetite and j bovery * utile i wn w iiuupei m it here ** s It Zoom Over Your Troubles With a Glass of undo __ PEPSI-COLA! See the flyer -zoom over that ^ ^ . soft fresh cloud lu^li u[? 111 the ^?* # heavens -he's cool and happy. Are you ? 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