Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1914-09-23
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WOMAN SUFFRAGE IN sweden
Advocates Encouraged by Progress
Movement ls Making-Norway Look.
Ing for Help From Her Sons and
Daughters in America In Case OF
TroubIe-PeopIe Of Copenhagen Not
Worried Over Attack by Germans.
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j. SWEDEN. i.
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Ellen Key, the renowned Swedish
authoress, says in regard to the prog
ress of the Swedish woman suffrage
movement in Sweden: "Swedish
women have been encouraged not only
by the fact of a government suffrage
bill last year and another one to come
this year, as the first one was reject.
ed by the upper house, but also be-
cause our suffrage movement has ex-
banded to include 210 affiliated ass0-
Citations spread all over the country.
Besides, there is an organized opposi-
ton, represented by the powerful Con-
sentative party. It proves that the
suffrage movement has grown to a
political power when a leading party
puts an anti-suffrage plank in its
platform. It is undoubtedly an ad.
vantage to have an open enemy, rather
than sneaking opposition working
| in the dark. Furthermore, the other
| two political parties, the Liberals and
the Socialist-Democrats, have suffrage
planks In their platforms, and about
two years ago the National Suffra &c
association declared that it was will.
Ing to endorse both these parties in so
far as they worked for women's suf.
frage. That declaration made great
stir among the members of the asso.
citation. The conservative women.
fearing the Liberals and Socialists
would neglect the question of our ma
! tional defenses, which is now, two
years later, brushing aside every other
political question in Sweden, refused
to affiliate with any other political
party than the Conservative one, and
on this account the unity of the ma
tional association was severely threat.
ened. However, peace was restored,
for, after all, suffrage is too great a
question for people to split over for
long. The annual conventions of the
association held since that event, un'
der the leadership of our beloved
| president, Miss Anna Whitlock, have
been remarkable for the united en-
thusiasm and good will expressed by
the MEMBERS"
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Telegraphing from Stockholm, Swe
den, the correspondent of the Wash
| 1ngton Star says: There is great
anxiety felt in the Swedish capital be-
cause Of the efforts Germany is max
ing, as shown by articles in the Ger
man newspapers, to induce Sweden
| to abandon it's attitude of neutrality
and take the field as an ally of Ger
many. The object sought is to weak
en- the Russian attack in East Prus
STA by means of a Swedish attack on
| Finland" The exigency of seeing
Sweden attack Finland, which was
once her own possession, is, however
rather far reaching and Swedish read
ers will take but little stock in this
| report. Sweden's aims and desires
are wholly of a neutral character.
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| Individuals and firms have made
efforts to get possession of the silver
coins, evidently considering these
more valuable than currency in times
| of war. Their efforts seem to have
been successful. Silver coins are now
very. scarce in Stockholm. At the res
taurants the patrons have a hard time
! paying, owing to the lack of change
and the employers have difficulty In
paying their help.
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Three coal steamers, loaded to full
capacity, arrived at Gothenburg thu
other day. About a month ago then
arrival would have occasioned nc
comment, but since the war began
coal is about the hardest thing to OBJ
tain in Sweden, as the entire coal sup
ply, with the exception of very low
grade coal obtained from coal mines
in Sweden, has to be imported chief
ly from England.
One-kroner bills will shortly be cir
culated in Sweden, if the application
of Riksbanken is acted upon favor
ably. Since 1875 the smallest de
nomination Of any Swedish bills has
sbeen 5 crowns, but before that time
there had been issued bills of ever
smaller denomination than / crown
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It appears that some people are al
ways unduly hasty and so during thu
first few days of the war scare il
Sweden many people laid in food sup
plies to last for months, only to fine
that the articles can now be had al