The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-08-23

home on the evening train. He reports
that Rev. A. N. Work, we'll known in this
city, will remove from Brookings to COL
orado.
DeSmet had a Jail delivery last Tues.
dar night which liberated six prisoners
One was captured in Lake county just
west of Ramona by the assistance OF Mr..
Witt of the latter place. The prisoners
succeeded in getting out Of their steel
cages by saving the bars through and
making a hole large enough to get out.
To hide the noise Of their saving they
kept mp a continual singing. and filled
the cuts in the bars with soap when the
Ulcers appeared.
Last Wednesday night Moody county
had a Jail delivery also, three out of the
four inmates escaping. One of them
was John Hale, awaiting trial for at
tempted murder, two, Ole Nelson and
| Sairum Strangeland, we're the new men
/ held in the old Erickson robbery case
and the fourth who would not go with
the others was Clyde Kephart also held
on the Erickson robbery case. They es.
capped by digging out under the floor,
probably with outside assistance. None
had been recovered Saturday.
Rev. Howard H. Russell, national sup
e%rintendent of the Anti-Saloon league
spoke to a large audience at the union
meeting in the opera house last evening
and is a very eloquent and forcible
| speaker. He started cut with the fol-
lowing broad propositions on which he
believed ali Christian people agreed,
namely; that the saloon is an unmitiga.
| evil, that organization is necessary to
| kill it, and that a federation Of all
| ChristiBn forces must needs be the basis
OF this organization. The anti.saloon
movement began in Ohio in 1893, and
had for it's first work to overcome gener-
al apathy, -timorousness in attacking Ii
! quor vendors and also discord in temper
ance ranks. These we're overcome by
eliminating first of all politics from the
| organization and enrolling as members
persons of every political party who
were opposed to the open saloon wheth-
er they belonged to churches or not, Sec
ond by making the organization interde-
~nom,national, that is, getting all denomi-
nations enlisted in the work and fight
against the saloon; and third, not to re-
| quire a total abstinence pledge, but to
work against the open saloon. These
things accomplished the first work then
was agitation, creating q public
sentiment, by frequent meetings
and speakers by literature, etc. Next,
the stringent enforcement OF such
laws on the liquor question as are now
on the statute books and thirdly the
watching of legislatures and getting
better laws and better legislators. There
is enough at present in the laws
to knock out many saloons. He
knew of ten cities in Massa.
chussetts of over 10000 population in
which there was not a saloon. In watch
| ing saloons he had found that a large
majority of those who pa~tropized them
we're young men under Il years of age.
A good financial department was also
necessary to keep able speakers in the
field al tating all the time, and also for
publishing literature and disseminate
ing it. Ohio raised $4,000 for these
purposes last year keeping nine men in
the field and spending $4,000 in supply
ing anti-saloon literature. The effects
of it we're already largely apparent in
the decrease OF saloons. This is the
work the league intends doing in South
Dakota.
Wanted at once, q small house and lot
must be cheap. A. G. SCHMIDT.
Wanted, two furnished rooms with
board for two in private family. Ad-
dres, Lock Box 81, Madison, s. D.
This evening, fresh watermelone, Der.
ries and fruit at the Model Bakery.