The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-02-23

help the publishers in their fight for
existence, took personal hand ana
demanded this manufacturers reduce |
their prices consistent with the cond1- |
ton of manufacture. 1t is but a Few
days since the white payer crisis was
brought to n focus by President VIII |
son, and now the manufacturers are
declaring themselves ready to consent
that the commission, for time, fix
reasonable price at which the manu-
facturers may make just profit and
the publishers pe enabled to buy their
principal raw material without go1nS
into bankruptcy. 1t is the plan Oh
President Wilson's trade commission
in this respect to fix prices for short
period, believing that within few
months competition will be restored
and reasonable prices ensue thereby.
Eight Hours for Women.
President Wilson having brought
about the federal reserve banks, unoer
which system the control of the money
is distributed over the country instead
of being confined to the hands of a
few men about Wall street; having
favored the creation of farm loan
banks, which will enable the farmer
| to secure loans from 500 to $4,000
at not exceeding 6 per cent and for
I S years or 40 years; seeing these
| things accomplished, and the farm
loan banks are just this week being
!
his attention, in the same spirit of hu-
mainly and justice always exhibited
| by Lincoln, toward the rellef or the
women, having secured. as 1 have al
ready said, the passage of the child
labor law, which takes two millions
of children out of the factories where
their growth and education were
| stunted and prevented
| "Now. thru President Wilson's eff
forts, there has been introduced
til, fc
ing in congress providing that women
shall work not more than six days a
week nor more than eight hours in
day President Wilson recognizes, as
Lincoln recognized, the humanity of
the case Women are important fac
tors in our existence; if it were not
for them we would not be here. Ma
ture has provided that they shall bear
the children and they should not be
compelled to awaken their woman
hood and hazard the life and strength
of future generations by being en-
ployed nine, ten or twelve hours in
factories or elsewhere.
"Out of fortytwo planks in the
Progressive platform, President Will
son has taken thirty-three of them
and, as leader of his party, compelled
his party to take them up and as fast
as possible put them into laws. This
is why l call President Wilson a pro-
gressive Democrat and why I, Pro-
gressive. am pleased to support him"
The Business Meeting.
At the business meeting of the ban
quet crowd, August Kopke of Emporia
was elected president. He won the
election over w. S. Hyatt of Parsons.
Members of the banquet club elected
the following officers for the next
year:
Presid ent-August Kopke, Emporia.
District vice presidents: First-Frank
To1l hot n
! Warning Holton. Second-A. F. Hat
ton, Westphalia; Mrs. Grace Wallace.
Kansas City. Third-F. Caroline
Drennan,- Arkansas City; w. S. Hyatt.
Parsons. Fourth-W- ]. O'Donnell.
Yates Center; Mrs. Lucy Carter Wood
ford, Burlington. Fifth-Mrs. c. E.
Van Week, Frankfort; c. E. Rugh,
Abilene. Sixth-Mrs. A. C. McClin-
took, Beloit; Mrs. Frank Boyd, Phil
lipsburg. Seventh-Mrs. Dan Sullivan,