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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1908-05-19

revenues For Fiscal year Beglnning
July /, 1908, Estimated at Between
Eight Hundred and Fifty and Nine
Hundred Millions.
Washington, May 19.-The 81 fieth
billion dollar congress" at it's first
session before adjournment is taken
at the end of this week. 1t is esti-
mated that the total appropriations
will reach the enormous sum of ST.
026. 6.000. 900, which is said to be the larg-
est amount ever appropriated at a
single session.
The various items contributing to
make up this prodigious aggregate
are as follows: Sundry civil, $120,
100000; legislative. executive and ju.
dicial. $3S,000,000; army, 1882, 900;
postofice, 1921, 5000; pensions, $16S,
100000; Notifications, s11,500,000; ag.
riculture, s11,642,000; District of Co
lumbia. $11.500.o00 diplomatic and
consular, s4,000,000; naval, s122,652,
900; Indian. 100000; urgent de,
ficiency $26,000,000; public buildings
$25,000,000; general deficiency, $17.
100000; military academy, new immi
grant station at Philadelphia, relief
| of tornado sufferers in the South, etc,
$t.500.000; permanent annual appro
priations. S154. 900 600
These appropriations are for the
fiscal year which begins July l, 1908
II is too early to give anything like
an accurate estimate of the revenues
of the government during that period
of twelve months. but members of the
| appropriations committee think they
will run somewhere between $3.50,
100000 and 5000, 100000. This would
mean a deficit OF between $125, ,000, ,00C
| and $175,000,000. Chairman Tawney
of the house committee warned the
| house last week that the deficit would
reach s150,000,O00 and If this predic
tion is fulfilled the surplus now In the
treasury will be wiped out by Junt
80, 1909, inasmuch as at the end o.
this fiscal year there will be a defici
of between $60,000,000 and $65,000, 900
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1908-05-19
SUNDAY SALOONS IN CHICAGO
Court Decides Mayor Cannot Be
Forced to Close Them.

Chicago, May 19.-The appellate
court has affirmed the decision of the
lower court In declaring that the
mayor of Chicago cannot be forced to
close the saloons on Sunday in con-
formity with the statute. The court,
In it's decision, says:
ITO hold that such power and duty
existed would be In effect to turn over
the supervision of executive functions
to the courts and to confuse all the
distinctions and balance of power sup
posed to be an admirable characters.
tic Of our system of government"
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1908-05-19
lIttlefieid Denies Report.

Washington, May 19.-Rising to a
question of privilege in the house Mr..
Littlefeld (Me) denied that in a
speech in Brooklyn Saturday last be-
fore the Young Mems Republican club
he had made an assault on the reputa-
tion of members of congress. He de-
clared that he had been grossly mis-
represented by the newspapers.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1908-05-19
British Troops Die of Cholera.

London, May 19.-An official tele-
gram received by the Indian office re-
ports twentyseven deaths from cholera
in the regiment of the Munster fusi
leers, which a week ago was sent into
the cholera camp from Major General
Willcocks' force now operating against
the Mohmands.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1908-05-19
MISS WOOD On STAND
TeStifieS in Her Suit for Divorce
Against Senator Plat.
LATTER DENIES MARRIAGE

Plaintiff Identifies Letters She Claims
Were Written to Her by the Sen
ator and Tells of Sitting on His Lap
and Holding His Hand.
New York, May 19.-Mae c. Wood
the Omaha girl who is suing United
States Senator Thomas C. Platt for
divorce, alleging that the senator for
mally entered into q marriage con-
tract with her on Nov. 8, 1901, gave
testimony In the suit now on trial
here. The young woman was smartly
attired and self-possessed. She iden-
titled copies of several letters, which,
she said, were received by her from
Platt. They were mainly of an affec-
tionate nature, but in several there
were interesting sentences on other
affairs. In one communication was
the phrase: "Your letter has cheered
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1908-05-19

Spokane, Wash, May 19.-With
Bryan men in control and Johnson
forces practically wiped out by the
adoption of the unit rule In counties
the Democratic state convention met
here under the leadership of former
United States Senator George Turner.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1908-05-19
Sanders inaugural Message.

Baton Rouge, La, May 19.-Race-
track gambling to be suppressed abso-
lutely and local option, combined with
high license, to regulate the liquor
traffic were two Of the most salient
recommendations of Governor ]. Y.
Sanders inaugural message to the let-
islature.
Earthquake Shocks in Montana.
Helena, Mont, May 19.-Three
earthquake shocks were felt percept-
ibly in this county. At Marysville
dishes ratified on shelves and clocks
were made to strike by the seismic
disturbance. No damage was donA
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1908-05-19

We offer One Hundred Dollars Re
ward for any case of Catarrh that can
not be cured by Halls Catarrh Cure.
F. j. Cheney & Co, Toledo, o.
We, the undersigned, have known +.
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Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, o.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken inter
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and mucas surfaces of the system. Tes-
timonials sent free. Price 75c per
bottle. Sold by all druggists.
Take Halls Family Pills for Consti-
patton.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1908-05-19

me up SO that am almost reconciled
to Odell's election" A picture of the
senator was shown, upon the back of
which was written "To my little wife"
Telling how this was written Miss
Wood said:
Was Sitting on His Lap.
swell, / was sitting on his lap.
Part of the time he held my hand and
part of the time | held his hand. We
wrote 1t together. The words little
wife were written by him, think"
Miss Wood said that the senator
came to her room In her hotel with
two men and that he formally ac-
knowledged her as his wife before
these two men.
Senator Platt was not In court.
Miss Wood, in her complaint, says
she was married to Senator Platt in
this city on Nov. 8, 1901. She named
as correspondent in her suit Mrs.
Lillian Janeway, who was married to
the senator in 1903 In his answer to
the complaint the senator declares
that Miss Woods allegations that he
married her about Nov. 8, 1901, In
New York are absolutely false.
'The plaintiff never made any
claim to me that she was married to
me until December. 1906" says Sen
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1908-05-19
Colds That Hang On

Colds that hang on in the spring de-
plete the system, exhaust the nerves.
and open the way for serious illness.
Take Foley's Honey and Tar. 1t quick
ly stop2 the cough and expels the cold
1t is safe and certain in results J II
Anderson
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1908-05-19

To check cold quickly get from your
called Preventics. Druggists everywhere
are now dispensing Preventios, for they
are not only safe, but decidedly prompt
and certain. Preventics contain no qui.
nine, no laxative, nothing harsh nor
sckening Taken at the "sneeze stage
Preventics will prevent Pneumonia
Bronchitus, LaGrippe, hence the name
Preventics, geod for feverish children
4S Preventics, Is cents. Trial boxes Sc
Sold by Sohutz & Ketcham.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1908-05-19

Here comes the spring winds to chap
tan and freckle, Use Pinesalve Carbol-
lied, tacts like poultice) for cuts, sores,
burns, chapped lips, hands and face.
1t soothes and heals. Sold hv Schultz 4
Ketcham.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1908-05-19

When man writes as follows don't you
thiuk he means if? Mr. S g Williams of
Powderly, Texas, says, IL have suffered
for years with kidney and bladder trou
BILE, using every preparation that came
across aud taking many prescriptions all
without relief until my attention was
called to Pineules After 30 days trial
$500 am feeling fine" Money refund
ed il not satisfied Sold by Schultz q
Ketoham.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1908-05-19
ALL RECORDS BROKEN
First Session Of Sixtieth Congress
Appropriates $l,O26,OOO, 900.
BIG DEFICIENCY PROBABLE

Revenues For Fiscal Year Beginning
July 1, 1908, Estimated at Between
Eight Hundred and Fifty and Nine
Hundred Millions.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-05-28
SAYS SENTENCE WOULD BE
TRAGEDY IF NOT RIDICULOUS

LOS ANGELES, May 27.-[Editor
Herald: 1t seems incredible that any
court in boosted free America would
sentence a man to five .'ears In prison
for shaking hands. Yet that is what
a number of uniformed Judges" did
in San Francisco! A soldier attended
one of Emma Goldman's meetings,
shook hands with her, and this was his
sentence.
The speeches of Emma Goldman are
almost as absurd as the judgment OF
that martial court. But the ridiculous
ness of anarchy in no way lessons the
righteousness of that judicial pro-
nouncement.
There is so much comedy in this per-
Torrance that 1t Is difficult for us to
see the tragedy. Five years in prison
for shaking flandst
And another Judge" with epaulets
on his shoulders, solemnly reviews the
decision. DEGREES that the sentence was
too severe, and so reduces 1t from five
years to three years!
And this happens in a city where the
most vicious and cowardly traitors TO
the nation, although VIGOROUSLY gull
ty, cannot be convicted! Where the
most dangerous and criminal assaults
upon government go unpublished!
Where the most guilty of bribers, bride
takers, boodlers, perjurers and cor
rupters of government brazenly walk
the streets and laugh in the faces of
the people
Poor old San Francisco! 1t does in
deed look as If she were suffering from
visitations of the Lord. She has been
punished with the plague Of knaves;
and now 1t Is the plague of fools.
GEORGE w. DOWNING.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-05-28
TRAGEDY OF THE SEA

WI EIRD, pathetic and dramatic is
w the story that comes by Wire~
W less telesraphy from the magic
isle, of suffering, hardship and loss
of life resulting from the casting away
of the Easton family off Catalina. Faint
with exhaustion and hunger and sick
with terror, they were picked up by
the cruiser Buffalo in the boat in which
they had been drifting at the mercy Oh
wind and waves, time and tide. Their
rescue cost the life of gallant sea-
man and their adventure the loss OF
brave boatman, who disappeared While
the helpless landsfolk slept, and at
midnight, according to The Heralds
latest advices by wireless. had not
been heard of. This story of adventure
and misadventure SO near home ana
the busy life of this big city shows the
imaginations of gifted men who write
stories of the sea cannot rival the
thrilling incidents which day or an
hour may bring forth on the great wide
waste of water that laves our peace
full shores.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-05-28
CONCENTRATION

" ENRY CLEWS, who through his
RI Wall street connection is well
- posted as to the views and in
tentions of Wall street financial mag
mates, and through close associa-
ton with intimate presidential circles
is equally well posted as to the views
and intentions of Col. Roosevelt, said
recently: 1.-THE great power concen-
trated in the presidents hands by con-
including railroad companies and
banking institutions, ambitious and
eager to control the federal govern
ment itself, and they are resolutely
working to control it as far as they
can by the force of capital, but as I'M
obtrusively as possible. 1t is signifi-
cant that some large railway and
banking interests have identified them
selves with the Taft movement" Mr..
Clews reduces to an absurdity the
proposition advanced by some wild
Drained blatherskites that William ].
Bryan's election is desired by the
trusts Even IL the trusts do not like
Mr.. Roosevelts utterances, still less
would they like Bryan's actions. 1t is
much easier to believe that corpora
tions and trusts are acting|in logical
and sane manner, and will try, by at
tempting to gain control of the con-
trolling power itself, to dominate the
situation. Concentration of power in
the person of a Cromwell who would
use force If necessary to restore or Sc
cure the rights of the people would
be highly undesirable from a trust
point of view. But concentration of
power under a genial gentleman like
the Caesar of the Philippines would
be we'll worth the expenditure of millions
of dollars. The trusts feel that in
financing Republican campaign they
would be financing themselves They
know Taft. They have studied his
Philippine record. In that they have
the advantage over the great majority
of the citizens of the United States,
who, however, may be enlightened by
a Filipino delegation. The Democratic
national committee will find it well
worth while to pay the expenses of
such a delegation, and the expenditure
would be legitimate.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-05-28
WORLDWIDE INTEREST
SAN FRANCzScOS CONSCIENCE
az FREDERIC J. HAsKlN

order to get proof of the crimes COM
mitted by those higher up are con-
demned in the roundest terms by the
men who apologize for all the other
grafters Boss Ruef confessed, IT VIII
be remembered, and was promised im-
munity If he would tell all he knew.
He refused to testify in court to Facts
which he swore In the grand jury room.
He broke the immunity contract him.
self. Now that he Is no longer a prose-
cution witness he has the sympathy or
the very business men who were
lately denouncing him as the author or
all the evil. Furthermore, the breaking
of the immunity contract Is charged
against the prosecution.
Mayor Schmitz walks the street
free man. He was sent to the peniten-
tiary, but, after waiting until the
statute of limitations prevented an
other indictment, the supreme court OF
California liberated him because OF a
technical flaw In the Indictment. III
defending this decision judge OF the
supreme court, in q signed newspaper
article, cited the precedent OF case IN
which q Chinese who had murdered an
other Chinese was permitted TO go free
because the Indictment failed 10 set
forth the fact that the murdered chi
nese was human being! In the same
article he admitted that 1t was common
knowledge that Schmitz was electeu
mayor, but that the indictment didn't
say so. The testimony, OF course,
showed that Schmitz was mayor, put
the supreme court walked through TINS
microscopic flaw In the indictment.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-05-28
A YELLOW SILENCE

OOMETIMES a silence is so intense
that the air creaks with 1t. In
~ such silence the f1utter of a
butterfly's wing would sound like the
whir of bats. In such silence
dozen flies rubbing their hind legs,
after the idiotic fashion of flies, would
create din like applause at mass
meeting. In such silence person
with his ear to the ground could hear
the earthworms boring. In such a
silence stands the boss of the indie
pendence league when he is asked in
the name of government by the people,
of the people and for the people to
declare his disapproyal of the menace
to the interests of the people which
exists in the form of a corporation de-
ternlined to cripple the maritime facil-
tiles of Southern California, If 1t can,
in order that it's own selfish ends may
means in its power to prevent the ac-
complishment of plans with regard to
San Pedro harbor which would be of
the greatest benefit to the community
and has imperiled the popularity of
Taft on the Pacific coast. The COM
mercial interests of Southern California
seek what is rightful and just. A
usurping corporation seeks what is
selfish and unjust. The silence of the
yellow papers when their duty to the
public should have compelled them to
declare themselves is a mystery. The
owner of the yellow journals and of
the Independence league has a most
unfortunate knack of saying the wrong
thing at the wrong time, and when the
right time comes. of saying nothing at
all. He blows his Fontarabian horn
when silence would seem to be the
sign of discretion. When his editorial
page might be expected to be perfer-
wildly eloquent it is cold and STILL
Well, after all, isn't there an old
proverb which says, "Silence is
POlden"?
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-05-28
OUR SCOTCH BISHOP

BISHOP ROBERT MCINTYRE did
X not reach his eminence because
= he was a bricklayer, as some
would have us suppose, but because he
had the will and ability to conquer
obstacles and help his fellowmen. He
was born in an obstinate. stubborn and
determined country. Scotland, the In
dividuality of which is always in
stanced by such examples as that of
Bishop Mcintyre. In people, training,
education, character, aim. purpose and
achievement, Scotland has so little in
common with England that the hum
dreds of thousands of Americans of
Scottish blood will no doubt add TO
their hearty congratulation of the Sell
kirk bishop their thanks for the fact
he has emphasized the nationality of
Caledonia at a time when many well
meaning American writer's seem bent
upon doing what the South Britons
failed to do, and making the sons OF
the Scottish race English, willy nilly.
Bishop Mcintyre, like thousands of
other Scots, fought for and won all he
owns, including his election to the rank
of bishop. for he was made" only
after a stubborn contest, which for a
while seemed to be going against him.
When his cause seemed almost hope
less a deadlock was broken and he won
triumphantly. That's the way with
Scotsmen-their proverbial luck" If
it may be called luck" They thrive
on opposition. and when their enemies
have their obituaries in type take out
new leases of life. Bishop McIntMe's
promotion would not have been consis-
tent with the traditions of his race or
the history of his career if it had not
been won, and not merely won, but
wrested from circumstance when the
evening papers were announcing his
probable defeat or prophesying that al
best there would be hopeless dead
lock!
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-05-28
ANTITRUST LAW

IN HERE is an antitrust law in force
in Arkansas. 1t is really in force.
Il 1t is effective because it does not
blink facts and uses the American
language in the direct. forceful and
non-apologetic style for which Horace
Greeley, Abraham Lincoln and other
old time, true blue Americans were
famous. For instance, it is impossible
to misconstrue or misunderstood the
following section:
ANY corporation, foreign or domestic,
transacting or conducting business in
Arkansas which is or shall become a
member of or party to, or create or en-
ter into any pool trust, agreement,
combination, confederation or under
standing, either in Arkansas or else
kansas or elsewhere the price of any
article of manufacture, etc, or the
premium to be paid for the insurance
of property, or to maintain said price
when so regulated and fixed, or to fix
or limit in Arkansas or elsewhere the
amount or quantity OF any article OF
manufacture or the premium to be paid
for the insurance Of property, or to
maintain said price when so regulated
or fixed, or to fix or limit in Arkansas
or elsewhere the amount or quantity of
any article of manufacture, etc, shall
be deemed guilty of conspiracy to de-
fraud and be subject to the penalties
of the act. A monopoly entered into
for the purpose named in this act is
unlawful and against public policy and
all corporations engaged therein shall
be deemed guilty of conspiracy to de-
fraud"
If people would accustom themselves
to thinking of trusts as conspiracies to
defraud the moral aspect OF the trust
discussion would become clear to them
The discussion, like every modern con-
troversy, has been cuttlefished. Modern
life and social conditions might be i'm
proved il less ink were shed and more
deeds were done
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-05-28
DEEPER DEPTHS

TT is evident from the wrecking of
the Gallagher houses by towards
Il in San Francisco that there are
dastardly foes of good government who,
undeterred by fear of the consequences
of detection, will go to any length of
criminality rather than allow the sue
cessful prosecution of grafters to bring
about the punishment of public enc
mics. The latest act of intimidation
makes it evident that conditions in our
suffering sister city are unparalleled
in American history In time of peace.
There exists in San Francisco an ag-
gressive lawlessness which Is nothing
less than treason. Such craven and
despicable crime as that of the
wretches who blew up the Gallagher
houses is In effect armed rebellion.
This skulking kind of armed rebellion
is more difficult to fight and suppress
than that which comes out into the
open, proclaims itself foe and fights.
One would have thought the depths Of
human depravity, wretchedness and
disgrace had been sounded in San
Francisco, but to every deep there is
lower deep.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-05-28
iNDivIDUALiSM,
NOT CENTRALIZED SOCIALISM

LOS ANGELES, May 26.-lEditor
Herald: In your editorial of May "a,
entitled menace of Socialism" you
paint an alarming picture OF the prop
abilities of the triumph of the Socialist
party at comparatively early date,
unless the old parties amend their ways
and shake off the "crassly ignorant
selfshness which dictates inspires and
controls machine movements In poll
tics"
l am not in the last inclined to de-
fend the old parties from the structures
to which you subject them for L my
self have been Disguised to the limit.
But 1 question your position. You say
that the Socialist vote in 1883 was only
20s4 and that in 1904 1t had grown to
442.402. That increase does not strike
me as startling when viewed In the
light of the rapid rise of discomfort as
evidenced not so much In Socialist lit
erature as in the enormous circulation
that radical articles In our leading
magazines have attained.
Nothing can be more amazing than
the reflection of modern thought that
is presented by such writer's as Elmer
son Hough, David Graham Phillips,
Raw Stannard Baker. Lincoln Steffens,
Jack London, Brand Whitlock and
others too numerous to mention. Tney
present views ranging from the ultra
anarchism of Tolstoy to the distinctly
revolutionary and not at all political
Socialism of London, and they have an
enormous circle of readers
When we consider the mass or dis
content that this must represent IT
does not seem extraordinary to me that
the Socialist vote should have grown
to more than 100000 in 1904, especially
when 1t is considered that the condi-
tions that year were exceptionally ir-
ritating to a vast number of citizens
who were looking for drastic changes
All these were utterly disguised with
the nomination of Judge Parker, whom
they looked on as, at the best, a proto-
type of conservatism.
Meanwhile the Populist party. which
had been largely Socialistic, had gone
TO pieces and the Socialists must have
drawn largely from that source.
To me 1t seems at once astonishing
that the party has not grown faster
and pathetic that many have turned
to II in what conceive to be despair.
For largely in it's membership, and,
which is far more important, altogether
I'm its aims and methods the Socialist
party is essentially German. 1t has
the philosophy of the most bureaucrat-
ically governed people in the world
and its organization is run on essen
TALLY German lines. discipline being OF