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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1908-05-26
AFTER SPIRITED FIGHT
Methodist Conference on Record
for Local Option.
NEW POSITION FOR CHURCH

Has Heretofore Stood Out squareIy
for Absolute Prohibition-Rev. DR..
ouayIe of Chicago Elected Bishop
on Tenth Ballot.
Baltimore, May 26.-The general
conference of the Methodist Episcopal
church at a prolonged session put It.
self on record as endorsing unquali-
fiedly the work of the Anti-Saloon
league and also favoring local option
Both of these positions are new with
the church. as up to this time no spe-
endorsement of the church, while 1T
has stood on the other hand for abso-
lutte prohibition everywhere.
This result was attained only after
one of the stormiest meetings yet
held. during which the opponents of
the majority report called to their aid
all manner of parliamentary tactics In
their efforts to defeat 1t. 1t was con-
tended by the minority adherents that
1t was wrong for the general confer.
ence to endorse any particular organ
ization and also that 1t was a distinct
violation of the standard of the church
to come out in favor of local option.
The majority supporters maintained
that the Anti-Saloon league was
worthy of this recognition, declaring
that 1t is the organization that is do
ing the work for temperance at the
present time, fusing as 1t does all
other societies and efforts into one.
They upheld local option on the
ground that 1t was to be used toward
statewide prohibition. When the final
vote was taken but nineteen out of
the entire body of upwards of 750 del
egates registered In favor Of the mi
nority report.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1908-05-26

ence are West Guthrie, Tulsa, jerks
small town near Tulsa; Muskogee,
Shawnee and Sapulpa West Guthrie,
parts of Tulsa, jerks and Sapulpa are
inundated and Shawnee is surrounded
by water and isolated save for tele-
graphic and telephone communication.
Muskogee has suffered considerable
damage to outlying property and its
gas plant was flooded and closed down.
Much low land in other parts of the
state is under water
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1908-05-26
RAILROADS KNOCKED OUT
Serious Flood Conditions Prevail in
Oklahoma.

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Guthrie. Okla, May 28.--Flood con-
ditions In Oklahoma are still serious.
Notwithstanding there were no further
heavy rains In the state all the prin-
cipal streams continued to rise slowly,
spreading out and covering additional
territory. No additional loss of life
has been reported, but several points
are still isolated and full details are
lacking. Railroads over the entire
state are practically out of commits
sion. While hundreds of persons have
abandoned their homes In the bottoms
apd are camped on the hills no real
distress has been reported.
All the principal streams are out of
their banks at some points along their
length. The towns that have suffered
the greatest damage and inconveni-
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1908-05-26
Decisive Cut in Wages.

Fall River, Mass, May 26.-The new
wage agreement between the cotton
manufacturers and the textile council,
which will be in force until next No.
tember, has become effective. Under
the agreement the $4,000 operatives
accept a wage reduction of 1874 per
cent. The cut in this city swells the
number of cotton operatives In New
England whose wages have been re-
duced this spring to about 10000.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1908-05-26
West Indian Liner Ashore.

Long Branch, N. j., May 26.-The
Clyde line steamer Seminole, bound
for New York from San Domingo City
and West Indian ports, went aground
OFF Pleasant point during a dense fog.
She is lying In an easy position In
about twelve fathoms of water, close
up to the beach. The sea is calm and
the steamer is believed to be In no
present danger.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1908-05-26
Feared Hostility of Jews,

Seattle, Wash, May 26.-The state
Prohibition convention, which has
just closed here, voted down a propo-
sition to incorporate the words I'VE
accept Jesus Christ as our leader" In
the preamble of the state platform.
Ministers and delegates stood solidly
against 1T, saying 1t would arouse the
hostility of the Jews and others who
differ In religion The platform op-
poses local option as a compromise @
scheme
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1908-05-26
Strikers Confess to DynamltIuo.

Cleveland, May 26.-According to
statement given out by Chief of Police
Kchler four striking conductors and
motormen have confessed to taking
part In the dynamiting of street cars
in various parts of the city last week.
These men are now in custody. II is
also stated that number of other ar
rests In connection with dynamite out.
RACES will be made.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1908-05-26

and the members of his party from
Dover arrived at the station the king,
the Prince of Wales and all the army
officers present stood at salute. His
majesty was the first to greet the
French president, welcoming him like
an old friend.
After the usual introductions and
the inspection of the guard of honor a
procession of state carriages, with
postillions, was formed and proceeded
to York House, that portion of ST.
James palace where M. Fallieres will
reside during his stay in London.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1908-05-26
HUNDREDS HOMELESS
Serious Floods Prevail In Texas
and Oklahoma.
CONSIDERABLE LOSS OF LIFE

Iause of Railroad Bridge at Dallas
and as Many Others Perish at
Fort Worth.
Dallas. Tex, May 28.-One man
drowned In sight of many people who
were powerless to save him, fifty fam
llies marooned In a submerged section
OF the city, the electric power house
engine rooms under water, street cars
out of commission, two bridges de-
stroysd and hundreds of people home
less in the suburbs are a few of the
results of q flood which followed a
sudden and terrific rise In the Trinity
river.
A section of the Texas and Pacific
railway bridge went down at noon.
Fifteen men were thrown into the
river, six being drowned.
The village of West Dallas, across
the Trinity river, Is partially inun-
dated and hundreds of families were
forced to seek higher places. The
Commerce street bridge spanning
Trinity river was partially washed
away and there is no travel between
the city proper and suburbs on the
west bank of the stream. Street car
bridges are under water and traffic
over these lines has been suspended
Traffio on the interurban line be-
tween this city and Fort Worth has
been discontinued. A section of the
Texas and Pacific railway bridge has
been washed away and service to the
West has been abandoned
In the city proper there is likely to
be much distress. as the water and
light companies have been closed
down, their plants having been flooded.
A section of the Santa Fe railroad
bridge has gone down and traffic over
this line has been temporarily discon-
tinued.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1908-05-26
Three Men Swept over Falls.

4 Spokane. Wash, May 26.-John
Sharpless.l John Miles and a young
Englishman named Richmond, all of
Nelson, B. c., were swept over the
falls In the Kootenai river and per-
ished It is believed that the men
either miscalculated the force OF the
current or an oar broke and they lost
control of the boat,
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1908-05-26
plans to Secure Intervention.

Paris, May 28.-Mulai Hafid, the
usurping sultan of Morocco, is quoted
by the cores pondent of the Matin as
saying that he would, If necessary,
have several German subjects killed
In order to secure the intervention of
Frances rival In Morocco.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1908-05-26
Woman's Body IN Barrel.

1 New York, May 26.-The body of an
unidentified woman, believed to have
been murdered, was found floating In
a barrel In Little He'll Gate between
Wards and Randalls islands. The wo-
mans eyes We're discolored and her
nose was bruised. Near by is Thomas
Jefferson park. where many Italian
outings are held.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1908-05-26
Mae Wood Released on ea;,.

New York, May 26-Mae C. Wood,
the woman from Omaha who sued
Thomas c. Plat for divorce, alleging
that she was secretly married to him
In 1901, was released on $4,000 bail.
Miss Wood is charged with perjury in
the testimony heard in the case In
court last week. When the bail bond
had been made out Miss Wood signed
II Mae G.. Wood-Platt.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1908-05-26
EXECUTION TO BE PUBLIC
Sheriff Hopes to Teach Foreigners a
Lesson.

Pottsville, Pa, May 26.-In order to
teach the foreign population of the
coal regions a lesson Sheriff Clay Ev-
ans has decided 10 make the execution
of Felix Radius public so far as the
leading Representatives of the Poles.
Hungarians, Slavs, Lithuanians, Rus
slams and Italians are concerned.
Tickets of admission have been
given to these men TO see Radius die.
Sheriff Evans believes that their
recital of the event to their country
men will do much to prevent murders
In this section of the coal regions.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1908-05-26
Operators and Miners Sian Scale.

Kansas City, May 26.-Representa-
tives of the Southwestern coal oper-
ators and miners met here and for
mally signed the wage scale and
agreement governing conditions in the
mines for two years to come The
terms are practically the same as ex-
listed last year. Miners numbering
$4,000 will return to work.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1908-05-26

Dover, Eng, May 26.-The French
cruiser Leon Gambetta, with President
Fallieres and the members of his
party on board, has arrived here from
Boulogne. The presidential visitors
were given an enthusiastic naval well
come from the assembled British ships
Of war under the command of Lord
Charles Beresford
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1908-05-26
GREETED BY KING EDWARD
President FaIlieres of France Arrives
in London.

London, May 26-King Edward, the
Prince of Wales and other members
of the royal family, including the
Duke of Connaught, Sir Edward Grey,
Premier Asquith and Home Secretary
Gladstone, welcomed M. Fallieres, the
president of France, when he arrived
at the Victoria station to return the
visits which King Edward and other
members of the British royal family
have paid to the head of the French
republic in Paris.
The station, which was closed to
the general public, had been convert.
ed into huge conservatory AS the
special train bringing M. Fallieres
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1908-05-26
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, 1908-05-26

Here comes the spring winds to chap
tan and freckle, Use Pinesalve Carbol-
lied, (acts like poultice) for cuts, sores,
burns, chapped lips, h nds and face.
1t soothes and heals. Sold nv Schutz &
Ketcham,
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1908-05-26

Don't cough your head off when you
can get guaranteed remedy in Bees
Laxative cough syrup 1t is especially
recommended for children as it is pleas
ant TO take, isa lentle Laxative II utex
pelling the phlegm from the system
For coughs, colds. Group. W hopping cough
hoarseness and all bronchirl trouble
Guaranteed Sold BY Schultz & Ketcham
Insist upon DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve
There are substitutes, but there is only
one one saana and Is snsc. sood e.,
piles Sold by Holiday & Porter.
SsaGs DYSPEPSIA TABLETS
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1908-05-26
Hows's ThisY

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 f.
j. Cheney for the last Is sears, and be.
lieve him perfectly honorable in all
business transactions, and financially
able to carry out any obligations made
by his firm. Walding Kinnan & Marvin
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken inter
nally, acting directly upon the blood
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, 1908-05-26

10 check a cold quickly get from your
druggists come little Candy Cold Tablets
called Preventics. Druggists everywhere
are now dispensing Preventios, for they
are not only safe, but decidedly prompt
and certain. Preyenties contain no qui-
nine, no laxative, nothing harsh nor
sickening. Taken at the "sneeze stage"
Preventics will prevent Pneumonia.
Bronohitus, LaGrippe, hence the name
Preventics, geod for feverish children
AZ Preventics, 25 cents. Trial boxes Sc
Sold by Sohutz & Ketcham.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1908-05-26

When man writes as follows don't you
thiuk he means itH Mr. S G Williams OF
Powderly, Texas, says, ~ have suffered
for years with kidney and bladder trou
BILE, using every preparation that came
across and taking many prescriptions all
without relief until my attention was
called to Pineules After 30 days trial
(s1 00) am feeling fine" Money refund
ed if not satisfied Sold by Schultz &
Keteham.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-26
THE THEORY OF CREDIT
IN MODERN BUSINESS LIFE

quire, and our systematic division OF
labor makes 1t unnecessary. The prin1-
tive man plucked the wild fruit or
hunted wild beast; ate the fruit or
the flesh, clothed himself with fur;
found for himself a cave i'll the rocks
or tore off the branches of a tree to
make for himself rude hut. IL he
wanted spears or arrows for his hunt
ing he made them for himself. If he
wished fish, instead of flesh for his diet
he made some kind of rude hook and
line or net and caught the fish for him
self. says writer in the Philadelphia
North American.
But as mems wants increased and
their knowledge increased 1t was found
easier to let one man do the hunting
and another do the fishing and another
make the arrows and spears and fish
ing tackle, and another build the huts,
and another weave the cloth with which
instead of skins they had learned 10
clothe themselves, and others 70 SOW
and reap and others to herd sheep and
cattle, and so q system grew up of
trading with one another the different
products of their respective kinds of
labor.
In modern times the system of pro-
duction and exchange has become very
complicated; but its essence remains
the exchange of one mans labor rep
resented in goods for another mans
labor; represented in other goods; and
it is the labor represented that in the
first instance gives goods their value"
Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-26
INALIENABLE RIGHTS

II IMITATION is the sincerest fiattery,
and Endorsement, even when given
Il indirectly, is better than flattery.
We must express our keen appreciation
of the editorial in a morning contem-
porary, in which the following passage
occurs: 1.-THE intelligent, wise, con-
scientious, courageous newspaper will
not forsake it's principles. 1t keeps be-
fore it's eyes the constitution of the
United States, the teachings of the
great statesmen of the past, and stands
for principles which have stood the test
of long years of trial"
The readers of The Herald are
familiar with phraseology of this kind,
because they have seen it In these
columns day after day, generally
coupled with an appeal to each in
dividual to familiarize himself with the
constitution of the United States. the
constitutional history of the nation,
and the vital principles that we call
"the first principles of Americanism,
a title that describes them exactly.
Our plea for freedom of speech has
awakened widespread response that
is gratifying because 1t shows that
America is America for all that, and
that beneath the outward form, that
may vary with the years. and that may
be affected and has been affected and
is still affected, now by this disease
and now by that-fortunately always
durable and sooner or later cured there
pulses still the strong, warm heart that
Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-26
THE RISK OF INFECTION
FROM LITERARY LEPROSY

one claim to cleverness is their habit
Of telling commonplace story, of
which the last word must be a whisper
or smoker. That is all there is to
this woman's much exploited clever
ness. This last book 1 have not read.
1 have no morbi6 curiosity. The same
subject was once treated by Balzac
in his mastery fashion, and I got
pleasure out of it. Why bother to read
a plagiarism? When q woman sue
ceeds in telling me one salacious story,
I avoid her stories forever afterward.
Her Thoughts are uncleanly and don't
care for them, even if they are wittily
expressed. In regard to this writer.
there is not even that qualification.
Her lauded wit does not compare with
that of Kate Douglass Virgins, Juliet
Wilbor Tompkins, Myra Kelly, Jose
phine Dodge Daskam, Jean Webster.
Anne Warner, Mrs. Hogan Rice--but it.
is unfair to mention them in this con-
nection. Don't subject your household
to the risk of infection from literary
leprosy.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-26

beat for humanity the wide world DER
when the Liberty bell gave mellifluous
tongue in Philadelphia, and message
like that of the Christmas angels was
far-ffung to the weary old world-"Peace
upon earth--among men of good will.
Proclaim liberty to all the nations of
the earthl"
1--WE hold these truths to be self
evident, that all men are created equal,
that they are endowed by their Creator
with certain inalienable rights, that
among these are life liberty and the
pursuit of happiness. The citizens
of each state shall be entitled to all
privileges and immunities of citizens
in the several states. This con-
stitution, and the laws of the United
States which shall be made in pur-
suance thereof shall be The
SUPREME Law OF THE LAND; and
the judges in every state SHALL BE
BOUND THEREBY, ANYTHING IN
THE CONSTITUTION OR LAWS OF
ANY STATE TOR CITY OF ANY
sTATEl TO THE CONTRARY NOT
wITHSTANDING =. Congress
shall make no law respecting the estab-
Iishment of religion, or prohibiting the
free exercise thereof; or ABRIDGING
THE FREEDOM OF SPEECH OR OF
THE PRESS; OR OF THE RIGHT
OF THE PEOPLE PEACEABLY TO
ASSEMBLE; and to petition the gov
eminent for q redress of grievances"
We have presented to you within the
compass of this editorial THE LIBER-
TIES OF THE UNITED STATES. We
have interpolated the words "or city
of any state,' and have put them IN
brackets. The Interpolation is justi-
fable. 1t is not an addition, but a para
phrase of the obvious spirit and intent
of the trainers of the constitution, who,
while specifying the state as a whole,
did not, think that there ever would be
occasion for rebuking a spirit of petty
provincialism or downright ignorance
which would set up civic ordinances In
opposition to the supreme law, the con-
stitution of the glorious land that we
live in, the land of which our great
state and our splendid city are COM
ponent parts.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-26
NOT so SUPERIOR!

nR. RUSSELL. a sociologist, scien-
fist, and contributor to the
- heavyweight magazines that are
not in popular circulation, says that
the idea that mankind's enormous adj
vance in science and our command
over nature serve as demonstrations
of our mental superiority over the
men of earlier ages is totally unfound-
ed. The evidence of history as we'll
as that of the earliest monuments in
dicates that our intellectual and moral
nature has NOT advanced in any per-
ceptible degree. The popular belief
In the great mental inferiority of saw
ages is equally unfounded. The more
they are sympathetically studied the
more they are found to resemble our
selyes-our noble, intellectual. highly
developed selves--in their inherent in
telectual powers. Even the long de-
spised Australians-the lowest people
on earth in material progress-by a
complex language, elaborate social reg
uIations, and an innate nobility of
character, show indications of an in
ner nature very similar to our own.
In the higher Pacific types we find
men who. although grown-up children
as regards material progress, are yet
generally admitted to be physically.
intellectually and morally our equals,
IL not our superiors. Robert Louis
Stevenson. the most spiritual human
being of modern times. man whose
image like a dim ghost still haunts
those of US who have met him and
known him. found his most congenial
society and the happiest days of his
life, not as r. L. Stevenson Of Scot
land and California, but as Tusitala
Of the Samoan isles.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-26
POINTS TO REMEMBER

III HE Herald believes that every
good citizen either now is or as
u soon as no is familiar with the
details and the circumstances of our
case as a community, will be in ac-
cord with the demand of the Lincoln
Roosevelt league for a legislature truly
representative of the people, instead
of one that might easily be mistaken
for a special department of a railroad
that believes in the greatest good for
that railroad. All attempts on the
part of that railroad to prove that
there is an animus against it, foment-
ed by "cranks" and by persons friend
ly with other railroad interests, are
cheap, silly and unconvincing
when we recollect that a so-called
anti railroad report" was prepared
and presented not by coterie of ir-
responsibles, agitators or business rivals
but by S. A. Butler, A. p. Fleming,
Willis H. Booth, H. C. Dillon, Motley
H. Flint, Walter F. Haas, Arthur c.
Harper, Frank C. Harbert, H. c.
Hubbard, Stoddard Jess, John w.
Mitchell, John G. Mott, Oscar c. Muel-
Ter, r. w. Pridham and Milton X.
Young. The commission which in
cluded these honorable and honored
citizens in its membership made the
following report: ut is unfortunate
that any corporation should have the
power attributed to the Southern Pa
cific railway company to thwart the
will of the people by controlling legis-
lation, but this adverse influence is the
obstacle which has confronted the con-
solidation commission from the Begin
ming. The commission begs to in
form you that consolidation with the
harbor cities cannot be accomplished
until a legislature which is not domi-
mated by railroad interests shall con-
vene at the state capitol and one which
will respond to the will of the people"
Any corporation that is adverse to
the public interest is an enemy of the
public, and any enemy of the public is
also an enemy of the republic. Where
private interests and public policies
conflict, it has been the rule in the
United States, ever since the nation
began to make Independent history, to
sacrifice private interests to the public
good, in the spirit of concession to that
principle of Americanism which de-
clares that conditions should be culti-
waited diligently which bring about the
greatest good for the greatest number
of citizens