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Lawrence Strike Is Officially Called Off Has, Say Leaders, Ac complished Its Pur pose. 300,000 BENEFITED Boston, Mass., March 24.—The great Lawrence strike, which brought in its train increased wages for 275,000 textile workers in New England, was officially de clared off at all the mills in Law rence today, having accomplished its purpose, in the opinion of the leaders. In this connection it is generally believed too that advances in wa ges or reduction ir. hours to paper mill employes, bagging and bur lap workers, machinists and opera ratives in other industries are all traceable, directly or indirectly to the movement which had its origin in Lawrence. The total number of persons thus to be benefitted is consider ably upward of 300,000. Advances in the price of woolen and cotton goods which have been made or which are in prospect, will prob ably place upon the ultimate con sumer which of the burden of the additional cost to the textile manu facturers. This will aggregate be tween 810,000,000 and §12,000,000 during the next year it is estimat ed. Mill agents in announcing ad vances in prices have frankly said that the upward trend is tne re sult of wages. The rise in the price of cotton goods, announced up to the pres ent time, is comparatively small— a fraction of a cent a yard in most cases—but selling agents predict tliat the net advance to the retailer may ultimately reach 2 cents a yard. Some increased prices also have been quoted on wollen goods and dealers freely predict higher prices for next season. New Bedford, where the manu facturers of the liner grades of cotton goods hrve refused to ac cede to the demands of their em ployes for an additional 5 per cent has displeased Lawrence as the center of interest in the textile situation. Unless the mill owners give the increased demands within a few days it is feared a strike of from 25,000 to 30,000 operatives will follow. While an increase of 5 per cent lias been offered the New Bedford operatives are insis tent that they receive 10per cent. Secretary Devoll, of the manu facturers’ association, has promis ed them that the mill owners will decide in the week whether will be granted. Can’t look well, eat well or feei well with impure blood feeding your body. Keep the blood pure with Burdock Blood Bitters. Eat sinmly, take exercise, keep clean and you will have long life. 13-8t. Judge — Y >ur wife complains for 3 years you never spoke her. What reason can you as for such conduct? Defend ant—I didn’t want to interrupt her.—Satin. Subscribe for the Leader. ,1 ! Drs. Eliott & fetor, 1 OSTEOPATHS *1 OFFICES; Rooms ill and '.'12, Five Story Bviilding. Phone 327 I Office Hours—8 a. m to|12 m. 2”p. m. to 5 p. m. DOCTOR J.E. GOETHE OFFICE— Garbutt-Donovan BuildiDg. 4th Floor, Rooms Nos. 412-411. Office Hours —10 to 12 A. M, 2 to 5:80 P. M. Or by Appointment. Sundays 9 to 11. 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COUNTRY FOLK WILL NOT EE RUN Woods All Over Georgia Are Burning With Resentment \ Against State Committee The menace to the constitutional rights of the country counties an'J the revival of the old machine scheme to abolish minority representation as embodied in the state Democratic executive committee’s procedure for the presidential primary, needs only to be thoroughly understood by the people of Georgia to insure that the trickery shall be overwhelmingly re pudiated this year, as it was when formerly attempted four years ago. The fol’owing communication exposes the sinister possibilities of the com mittee’s program and may be taken as a forerunner of a groundswcll that | j will effectually draw the fangs of the scheme: Editor Constitution: I thought the people of Georgia had passed upon and killed the proposition to abolish the county unit system in Georgia politics One state committee has already beer, disciplined in this respect and now another assumes to deprive the coun try counties of Georgia of the propor tionate power given to them by the constitution of the state. It strikes me it is up to the people of this state to teach another com mittee a lesson. If this committee has put up this job for the purpose of carrying the state for Woodrow' Wil son, it will be found that it has mad' a terrible blunder, for there are a great many country people in Georgia who, however they may feel toward any man, are more zealous for their liberty and their constisutional rights than they are for any one man, and if Woodrow Wilson, or anybody else, Is used as an instrument to deny them the guarantees of the state constitu tion then they will run over him just as they have run over others who have tried before to work this trick on them. J. B. MOON. A tidal wave of protest arose foui years ago when this same scheme was foisted upon the people. Among thr foremost exponents who led the figh for the protection of the rights of the country counties were Albert H. Cox, “Rufe” Hutchens, now manager foi Oscar Underwood in Georgia, and Thomas E. Watson, Joseph M. Brown, at whose candidacy this revolutionary device was mainly leveled, shot the plot to pieces in a series of state ments that will go down to history as among the most striking specimens of political literature ever produced in Georgia. The Constitution, the Macon Telegraph, the Augusta Chron icle, the Rome Tribune, the Athens Banner, other prominent dailies an a great preponderance of the weekl; press in the state joined in a pr< test that climaxed in a sweeping pub lie repudiation of a scheme to do b? indirection at a primary what couh not be legally done in electing legis tors, instead of delegates. In other words, these great forces irf Georgia combined their influence to crush and thwart a scheme that at one blow denied to the country coun ties their constitutional basis of rep resentation, that absolutely wiped out such a paltry tiling as a minority rep resentation, and that made it possi ble for a few large counties to com pletely dominate the state govern ment. The procedure promulgated for the presidential primary this year again slays the county unit plan, again destroys the right of the small coun ties to representation and again makes it possible for a few large counties to dictate to the rest of the state! The rules for the presidential pri mary give the delegates of every coun ty in the state to the presidential as pirant receiving the plurality vote of the entire state. See how the trick works: Ten of the largest counties of thq state, by sheer weight of votes, ma-' absolutely smother, annihilate, dis franchise the other 136 counties. Why? Because, should these ten counties return for any one man a pluralitv over the other 136 counties, the sup porters of this one man are empower ed to name in each county which he had lost the delegates to the state convention which will select the na tional delegates. The smaller counties do not even have the right of protest. They can not even voice their resentment. They are thrown down, tied and gagged by the sheer accident that other coun ties contain a larger number of vot ers. Minority representation be d—d! Fortunately, In this special instance, the big city counties are very much in line with the prevailing sentiment in the country counties in favoring a southern man for president, especially when that man comes from a sister state and has made a record which has focused upon him the eyes of the whole nation as the most successful house leader of the party since the war. But no man knows what Issues may ae involved two years hence, oy later, and the principle once established that the country counties of Georgia shall be deprived of their proportionate rep resentation, as guaranteed them by the constitution, no man knows what they may ultimately be required to sacrifice. Once before this indefensible plot to undermine representative rule in gta, to apply the muzzle -to thousands of voters, has been given a sweeping coup de grace by an awakened peo As Georgians value their personal liberties, as every county—no matter how small, or weak—values its electo ral integrity, it is incumbent upon them to rise again and put the final quietus to a conspiracy that declares i that “might makes right” and that out rages every principle of free expres- j sion upon which rests Democratic in stitutions.—Atlanta Constitution. TOSS WATSON o Country Folk Swindled Gut of Their Constitutional Right ISSUES CARD TO THE PUBLIC “The Smith committee now abolish- 1 es the county unit plan again, and proves by doing so that they have no politics convictions on the subject but go from the one plan to the other as the interests of their boss seem to require. Such shifty attempts to ( follow a winning policy are in line with their conduct heretofore—con duct which makes the committee and its boss afraid to give the people a fair chance at them.” THOMAS E. WATSON. Thomson, Ga.— (Special.)—Thomas E. Watson gave out a strong statement at his home here today, denouncing the action of the state executive com mittee in turning its back upon the county unit plan of making nomina tions, when it arranged for the presi dential convention of May 29. Mr. Watson, in his statement, which follows, shows wherein the commit tee’s action was a direct blow at the constitutional rights of the people of Georgia: “If there is any lesson that experi ence should have taught us, it is to beware of the despotic power of un shackled majorities. Protecting the Minority. “Every bill of rights, every state constitution, every system of parlia mentary practice, every section of our national constitution, is an evidence of the necessity of guarding the rights of the minority. In fact, the govern mental problem which has puzzled statesmanship for centuries is that of fixing such bounds to liberty that it will not degenerate into unbridled license. “It is difficult to determine which, is the more to be dreaded, ijhe des potic power of one man or that of the impassioned, uncontrollable mob. Our forefathers thought themselves fortu nate in discovering a new system of government in the severance of sov ereign powers into three departments —executive, judicial and legislative. They added a mixed system based partly on the equality of territorial units, and partly on population. Thus the states are equal in the senate but unequal in the house of representa tives. Now, when our wisest men con vened to frame a constitution for Geor gia they patterned our legislature af ter the federal government, The small counties were protected from the large ones. “The smallest county unit was to have one-third the legislative power of the largest. At the first Democratic convention afterwards our system of making political nominations was pat terned after the plan laid down in the constitution. That plan was In force uninterruptedly until the Smith politicians swept it aw 7 ay in 1906. The battle of 1908 was fought on that is sue, and the people reversed the city politicians. Faith Was Broken. “In the campaign of 1910 we were assured that our county unit system would not be disturbed. Faith was broken, and the Smith convention of 1910 asain abolished our constitution al systzm, so necessary to the small counties. Then, in 1911, the Smith committee ignored its own platform and returned to the county unit plan. We beat them. We carried more than enough small counties, but in popula tion, they heavily outnumbered us, mainly because of the big cities. “The Smith committee now abol ishes the county unit plan again, and proves by doing so that they have no political convictions on the subject hut go from the one plan to the other as the interests of their boss seem to require. Such shifty attempts to fol low a winning policy are in line with their conduct heretofore conduct which makes the committee and its boss afraid to give the people a fair chance at them. “But we beat them to their knees last year, and we will finish them in May of this year. “THOS. E. WATSON.” In presenting the name of Hon. Os car W. Underwood of Alabama as a candidate for the Democratic nomina tion for precedent, as manager of the campaign committee sn Georgia, I de sire to call the attention of our peo ple to the fact that Mr. Underwood is the leader of the Democratic party in congress: he has charge of the tariff legislation, that will necessarily form the issue on which the Democratic party must depend for its success in the coming national election. He is and has been for sometime the Dem ocratic leader in congress. Studervt's Savings B©,r\k Open for Deposits Each School D i.y 8:15 to 8:30 a- m., 3:15 to 3:30 p. m. We’ll take care of your Pennies. Let the Big Banks care for your Dollars Open An Account With. Us. HELP YOUR SELF By helping your land to yield the greatest possible production The use of VIRGINIA-CAROLINA FERTILIZERS will accomplisd this end. Its intelligent use will enable you to make more money on less acres with less help. 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