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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1908-09-19
have not represented the company in
any way since"
Taft Has Nothing to Say.

Cincinnati, Sept. l9.-After reading
the Hearst speech relative to Senator
Foraker and Senator Foraker's ex.
PLANTATION Mr.. Taft said: Il have moth.
ing whatever to say regarding the
natter" A. l. Vorys, Mr.. Taft's chief
Of staff, made exactly the same reply
to the same inquiry
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1908-09-19
Cadets ssntsn csd to Siberia.

Wilma, Russia, Sept. 1s.--Three ca
Aets attending the military school here
were condemned by courtmartial to
exile in Siberia for having formed a
society, which operated through the
,cRdet officers, to prepare the cadets
Ter revolutionary activity.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1908-09-19
Rain Quenches Bush Fires.

Port Arthur, Ont, Sept. 19.-Al
danger of bush fires, which have
threatened the district for the past
few weeks, has been averted by the
welcome arrival of rain. Much val
uable property which appeared to be
doomed now is comparatively safe.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1908-09-19
. Progress Continues Slow.

New York, Sept. 19.-Dispatches to
Dun's Trade Review indicate further
gradual Improvement in whole, al.
though progress is slow in some cases
and lack of rain affects manufacturing
and transportation to some extent
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1908-09-19
CHOLERA SPREADS RAPIDLY
Tive Hundred Deaths in a Day at ST.
Petersburg.

st. Petersburg, Sept. 19.-The Asi.
attic cholera has taken strong foot,
hold in the garrisons of st, Peters
burg and over four hundred soldiers
have been stricken.
The municipal statistics covering
the civilian population of the city
show that in the past twenty.four
hours there were 395 new cases and
1876 deaths from cholera in the capital.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1908-09-19
Forty Overcome by smoke.

st. Joseph, Mo-, Sept. 19.-Forty
men were overcome by smoke in fire
which threatened the destruction OF
Swift & Co.'s packing plant in South
st. Joseph. With the possible excep
tion of two firemen all are out of dan
geY.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1908-09-19
Passed Examination Successfully

James Donahue, New Britain, Conn,
writes: n tried several kidney remedies,
and was treated by our best physicians
for dial etcs but did not improve until
took Foley Kidney Remedy. After
the second bottle | showed improvement.
and five bottles cuIed me completely. |
have since passed rigid examination
for life insurance. Foley's Kidney
Remedy cures backache and all forms of
kidn and bladder trouble. j III. And
erson.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1908-09-19
Favors Woman Suffrage.

Lansing, Mich, Sept. 19.-The Mich.
igan Federation of Labor went on rec
ord in favor OF woman suffrage and
against prohibition and local option.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-10

Facts Refute the Gloomy Assertions
of Politicians.

of Politicians.
New York. Times.
Speaking at Lincoln on Friday Mr..
Bryan struck a most dolorous note and
quoted a certain journal Tin support of his
allegations that the country was going to
rack and ruin" II that were true 1t would
not necessarily follow that the country
needs Mr.. Bryan's protection. 1t may ever
be true that the country is doing better
than he thinks. We remark for example,
that the imports through New York for the
month of. September increased $50 900
over August. London dispatches had all
ready Informed us that the diamond mines
had resumed full work on the revival Of
the American demand This is confirmed
by the growth OF imports Of precious
stones at New York by $500, 900 in a single
month. The imports OF automobiles in
creased over both the preceding month and
year. Imports Of sugar increased 81, 200, 900
over August and 81, 200, 900 over September,
1907, showing that even the humblest were
enlarging their expenditures.
We must wait a few lays to get confir-
nation of this change in the current, OF
trade for the nation, but meanwhile It is
confirmed by a similar change In immigra-
ton. For three successive weeks there has
been a net balance In favor of the inward
movmen OF steerage passengers, which
gains significance from the fact that the
decrease since the beginning of the year
has been 7s1,oOO, an unprecedented occur
ence. This is among the earliest signs OF
the reaction. The increase in the bank ex-
changes by 8 per cent, for September and
railway traffic is encouraging regarding
domestic trade, and is confirmed by the
Department of Commerce reports that the
movement of coal, cattle, lumber, and crops
Is Increasing, and is ranging above 1906,
making 1908 the second best in the nations
history. These are facts. not opinions, and
the freshest and most authoritative obtain
able. Mr.. Bryan should be 'consoled and
not believe all that he hears. Those look
ing for trouble are likelier to find It than
those who take things as they are.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-10
Real Cause of HostIIity.
New York Post

@NA@ .
The true explanation Of the ~transforma-
ton OF the ancient dread of government
into a dread Of capital is that people have
seen capital usurping and misusing the
functions of government. II is the med
ding OF wealthy men and large corpora
TORS with the work of legislatures and OF
congress, with the nomination and cleo
ton OF representatives and senators, gov
ernors and presidents. and their alliances
with party management that have made
the troubles 1t is against riches per So
that the Jealous and aEgry feeling has run,
but against men OF large fortunes, and
corporations of great power, that have
reached out a~rrogantly 20 buy legislation
or TO purchase Immunity. IL the former
Jealousy OF government has passed away,
It is largely because people have felt that
government has become their Obedient
servant. But when they discover. or think
hey do. that It is really the obedient serv-
ant OF corporate wealth. II Is not strange
that the old wrath should blaze up with
new fierceness.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-10
The Tyranny of the Good
Boston Herald frep.N.

the fundamental question. What lie the
good7 Sincerity must be matched by In.
sight and feeling by wisdom. A man may
be so constituted as to make a fine
prophet, but not a sound executive. John
Brown and Abraham Lincoln. Wendell
Phillips and John A. Andrew were all
good men. but 1t was most fortunate
for the nation and for Massachusetts, that
the ''agitators' never became chief mag
istrates.
The radical out of power becomes the
tyrant In power, as was illustrated by
Savonarola in Florence. He not only had
Mr.. Bryan's sincerity. but a breadth Of
knowledge and a practical ability which
the Nebraskan has never shown. Llk
Calvin, later in Geneva, and John Knox
in Scotland, the theocrat. who overthrow
tyranny In one form. substituted for It
another. For, as the late Thomas David
son pointed out in his discussion OF this
matter, HE who tries to force men to be
good Is just as much a tyrant as he who
seeks to induce them to be evil. A tyrant
by the grace Of God is still a tyrant, no
matter whether he calls himself Savona-
rola, Calvin or Mather." This reference to
Mather gives the matter a local application
which students OF the Puritan egime in
New England and its effects will not fail
to appreciate. Permanent reform in state,
church, school or family rests not upon
truth imposed, but on truth appropriated
and tested by experience. A magistrate
over a democratic nation Is not set to
reign, but to govern; not to excommuni-
cate, but to execute; not to lead so much
as to guide; not to assault, but to assist.
And in doing this he needs wisdom as well
as goodness"
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-10
STANDING ON ms RECORD.

In his letters to President Roosevelt
and in nearly all Of his public speeches
Mr.. Bryan Of Nebraska emphasizes the
fact that he is willing to stand on his
record and be judged by IL. He as
sures the people that he is thoroughly
in earnest; that he exactly what
he says and that, II elected, he will
carry out all Of his pledges to the let
ter. Taking Mr.. Bryan at his word,
II is worth while to call attention to
his record on some of the public ques-
lions.
It is only twelve years since Mr..
Bryan declared free silver as the para
mount issue. In many of his 1895
speeches he went on record as follows:
I want you 10 understand that in this
great contest for free silver 1 am enlisted,
not for a year, not for four years. 1 am
enlisted for the war, no matter how long
that war may last. l shall not cease to
fight until the gold standard. which has
cursed every nation that ever had It, is
driven out Of the United States across the
ocean and back TO the old world where It
belongs.
/ Friends of Mr.. Bryan may contend
that the money question is not an issue
In this campaign and that Mr. Bryan
has abandoned the free silver fallacy.
II they do SO contend. they speak with
out authority from Mr.. Bryan. He has
been consistent on that feature of his
record, IL on no other. He has never
recanted, never gone back on his first
political love. In 1900, when 1t was
stated that Bryan had turned his back
on free silver, he gave the lie to such
reports by declaring:
II there is any one who believes the
gold standard is a good thing or that It
must be maintained, I warn him not to vote
for me, because l promise him Il will not
be maintained in this country longer than 1
am able to get rid of It.
In 1900 Mr.. Bryan stood as the can
didate of three political parties, each
of which declared for free silver. The
democrats, the populists and the silver
republican national conventions all
adopted platforms reiterating the de-
mand of the democratic platform of
1896 for the immediate restoration of
the free coinage of silver at the ratio
of 16 to 1. Mr.. Bryan's greatest cause
of complaint against the action of the
democratic convention at st. Louis in
1904 was its adoption of the gold tele-
gram, sent by Judge Parker, as a part
of the party creed. In the present
year, in a speech at Danville, ILL.,, last
spring, Mr.. Bryan declared that every
plank in the democratic platform of
1886 was stronger now than when it
was adopted.
Is 1t lot most hazardous to disre-
gard in this campaign the ~fallacies of
Mr.. Bryan in 1896 and 1900, about
which he now has nothing to say? In
one of his recent addresses Mr.. Bryan
declared that If he was elected the TO-
pie would know what to expect If
he is standing by his record, the people
would expect him to bring the free sill
yer question into the arena again.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-10
THE ANSWER TO MIR. oLNEY.

Senator Lodge has contributed an
extremely interesting page to the cur
rent campaign literature by calling at
tention to an endorsement Of Mr.. Taft
given by Richard Olney of Massachu-
sets four years ago. The contribution
is particularly timely in view of Mr..
Olney's recent elaborate and labored
letter in which he convinced himself
that it was his duty to support Mr..
Bryan in this campaign. Mr.. Olney is
a man of great ability and dignity of
character, whose name will long be
linked with that of his great chief,
President Cleveland, who condemned
practically every policy which the pres
ent candidate of the democratic party
now advocates. Senator Lodge calls
attention to the fact that Mr.. Olney,
in his letter, Toe not praise Mr.. Bryan
nor approve his policies, but rather
urges his support because he fears that
Mr.. Taft would follow too closely In
the footsteps Of President Roosevelt.
However, Mr.. Olney's opinion of Mr..
Taft is a matter OF record. Speaking
for Harvard university, in June, 1904,
Mr.. Taft being the orator of the day,
Mr.. Olney said:
The welcome presence here OF my friend.
the eloquent orator OF the day, suggests
some of the most striking OF the new
doctrines. He has filled with eclat GER
tainly the second, II not the first, most
important post in the national Department
of Justice. He has been a judge of the
circuit court of the United States, infe-
rior in merit and repute TO none OF the emil
nent holders of like office. He may in
time to come-and prophetic voices to
that effect are by no means uncommon
become a member of the greatest court
the world has ever seen. or even chief
magistrate Of the American republic. 1
venture TO say, however. that when his
career is run and is summed up by the
historian of the future. the secretary of
war, the holder OF whatever office he
may fill. will rank second to the gov
ernor of the Philippine Islands. Having
absolute mastery OF the lives and for
tunes Of 1900, 900 people, he has won gem
eral admiration and applause by the JUS
tice and skillfulness Of his rule. and by
the tact. patience and humanity OF his
dealings with an alien race.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-10
COST CT
of the White Plague in the
Human FAMILY.
Cleveland Leader.

Cleveland Leader.
A high authority upon the diseases of ami
mails told the International congress, which
Is considering the immense problem of tu-
berculosis, that the loss in the live stock
Industry Of the United States by tubercu-
losis was not less than sl4,OOO,O0 100 a year.
In other countries 1t is of corresponding
proportions.
These are big figures, but not by COM
parison with the destruction of human life.
even In the strictest business sense, reduc-
ing the value OF men and women to the
sums for which they sold in slavery DAYS
OF the price which they would bring now IL
II were possible to dispose Of their services
for life, in the old way.
incomplete and imperfect mortality stalls
Tics Indicate that not less than l5O. 600 hui
man beings fan victims, every year, to tu-
Derculosls In the United States alone. Not
d large proportion are under is years of
age NOT many, relatively to the total, are
over o. The great majority die in the
carry prime OF life or in their youth. II
the average value OF the whole army slain
Dy the white plague" is reckoned at only
1900 apiece the cost of tuberculosis ,s
~sloO'Vo'VOo annually. In the world It must
De ten times that sum, or the vast total OF
a.5OO.0OO.OO yearly.
Ihis Is a crude, grossly material and in
adequate way to reckon or even hint N.
cost OF consumption. 1t takes no account
OF untold and unreasonable suffering. or
the enormous loss of time and the direct
burden of expenses incurred by the living
ana the sound. The fire loss OF the United
states is a national scandal and a grievous
ourueh 10 the country, but 1t is a light
matter IN HnmnaEfEhp wuEfA a.
wrought by tuberculosis.
Inc white plague is being beaten down.
II Is losing ground steadily. In Prussia
the official estimate is that the death rate
from that disease has fallen one-balf in
the last generation. Other like gains for
hfe and health and the usefulness of man
Kihd are reported from many parts of the
world Consumption will consume far less
human life in the future than it has in the
past an assured change which is one OF
the greatest blessings of the age.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-10
POLITICAL DRIFT

Solicitors for democratic campaign funds
In New York state are allowed a rake-off
OF 10 per cent.
One Of the democratic nominees for pres
idential elector in Massachusetts, retired
from the ticket because he intends to vote
for Taft.
Judge Parker's activity on the stump
goes to show that passing years have not
Modified his crouch against the steam
roller of 1904.
A democratic editor in Oklahoma offers
to prove all that has been charged against
the late C. N, Haskell. oh, husht Let
the dead rest.
A New Jersey man and his wife are
running in this campaign on opposite tick
cts. They seem to have ignored tho warm
Ing that a house divided against itself
cannot stand.
Democratic sorrows multiply. The Hon
James Kerr OF Pennsylvania, the purist
who succeeded Colonel Guffey on the ma
tional committee, is shown up as an Of
ficer of twenty-one corporations. mostly
Pennsylvania coal companies.
One of the most ingenious things put on
the market this year is a small tablet. like
a medicine pellet. which. when dissolved
in a finger bowl. resolves itself into a
picture Of Taft or Bryan, as the case may
be. Already thousands OF these tablets
have been sold to New York hotels and
restaurants.
Chairman Mack and Henry Watterson
are putting out a larger variety of prophe-
cies than all other political prophets COM
bined. If the famous Mahdi of the Sou
dan could come back to life and view
their output, he would readily understand
how completely his fame as a false
prophet is overshadowed.
The New York Tribune correspondent ac-
~companying Governor Hughes, speaks OF
Omaha as this democratic city" not
knowing. doubtless, that the present demo-
cratic administration, the first in fifteen
years, was elected while republicans slept
at the switch. The crowd In the Audi
forum was nearer 5000. or twice the num-
Der stated by the Tribune man.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-10
THE pALKAN ooMpLIoArtoNs.

Whenever any Turkish stake is on
the table there is always a suspicion
that loaded dice are being used in the
diplomatic game, and the present con-
dition of affairs in the Balkans is a
case in point. Germany, France, Rus
STA and England are all agog over the
action of Bulgaria in declaring its in
dependence of Turkey and each power
evidently suspects the other of being
behind the move, for it is hardly pos
sible that Bulgaria would undertake
war with Turkey unless assured of
support from the outside.
Reason exists for this kind of sup
port from any or all of the powers, al
though one Of them would care to
make open encouragement of Bulgaria
without some better excuse than yet
appears on the surface. The powers
that have long figured upon the dis
memberment Of Turkey have been
waiting for the collapse of the sui
tan's government, hoping to then share
in the division of the empire. The
Young Turks" movement has proved
a blow to such hopes. With a con
stitutional government and a progress
sive spirit, a real Turkish empire
might be built up on the wreck of the
sultan's government, which has be-
come a byword and a reproach to CIV
ilization. The furtherance of this pIan
would include a stronger union among
all OF the provinces that paid full or
part tribute to the sultan's rule. The
Young Turks have been anxious to ar
range their domestic affairs without
the interference of any of the powers
and the declaration of B~ulgaria's in
dependence is the first open opposition
to the plans of the reformers.
Bulgaria has had practical indie
pendence since the treaty of Berlin
adopted in 1873, which gave the coun.
try autonomy and a Christian gov,
ernor. Eastern Rumelia, Just south OF
Bulgaria, however, was directly under
the sultan until Bulgaria seized It II
1885. Since that time Bulgaria, which
has been wisely ruled, has built IN 8
strong army and is in position to caus
Turkey a lot Of trouble, particularly
as the Turkish army is reported to b,
sadly run down, mutinous on accounr
of Ill treatment and lack of pay ant
ready to offer little or no resistauc,
to B%ulgaria's fight for complete inde
pendence. Austria-H Hungary is ais,
credited with encouraging Bulgaria.
plans, with a view of a~nnexing tn,
Turkish provinces of Bosnia ant
Herzegovina, which have been admin
istered by Austria-Hungary since 1873
under the terms of the Berlin treaty
Servia wants to absorb these province
and Macedonia, the land of massacre
Ipillage and official savagery, is ready [,
turn to any nation or group Of nation
that will promise relief from Turkish
misrule.
The val cloud has been hangini
over the Balkans for many years. bu
real conflict has heretofore beef
averted by the diplomatic Intervention
OF some of the powers to the treat.
OF Berlin. Whether such Intervention
lis yet possible is a question. Indica
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-10

are recipients OF attentions far from pleas
ant. The experience OF the daughter OF
]. Pierpont Morgan in Berlin was more
annoying than any recently noted. Miss
Morgan was actually driven out Of the
German capital by the persistent importun-
tiles OF beggars. She had hoped to study
politico-social conditions there. but as
soon as report placed her high in the
American heiress class beggars OF high
and low degree laid siege to her purse.
individuals, societies, churches. charitable
Institutions and promoters of business
schemes wrote, telegraphed and sent mes
sengers. 1t all looked funny to the young
woman at first, but 1t became q nuisance,
from which she escaped by means Of her
automobile. In which she FASTENED to a
nearby summer resort.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-10

Correspondents moving about in the
country among the plain people, report
that they find many Of them saying that
they intend to vote for Mr.. Bryan be-
cause he is good" He Is said to be send
ing broadcast throughout the country his
Prince OF Peace" sermon, which he de-
livers at Young Mems Christian associa-
tions and Chautauquas, and also his mar
ration OF his experience at the Vatican
and the favorable impression Pope Plus X
made upon him. In more ways than one
evidence accumulstes showing that Mr..
Bryan's Orthodoxy" and his unequivocal
alliance Of himself with the cause of re-
ligion and the church is becoming an as
set for him among voters who often are
more concerned with religion and with.
the church than they are with ethics and
with the state. It is not denied by those
who 50 favor Mr.. Bryan that Mr.. Taft is
a lover Of righteousness. 1t is not denied
that both formal organic law and Amer
lean precedent are against prescription Of
candidates for office in this country be-
cause OF their attitude toward religion.
But It is argued that because Mr.. Bryan
is so formally and persistently a preacher
Of doctrine and so unequivocally an ally
Of religion in its conventional forms, there
fore he is a better man than any Of his
rivals.
Even were 1t proved that this logic was
correct, and that the surest test OF good
ness is formal and persistent profession
Of 1t, it would still remain true that Mr..
Bryan should not be voted for simply on
the ground of his goodness" Statecraft
calls for conscience, but also for mind.
There must not only be pure motive, but
discreet acts. The will to do good and to
be good is important, but it rests back on
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-10

Fears are expressed hat If Presi-
dent Roosevelt goes to Africa he may
be bitten by the tze-tse fly that causes
the sleeping sickness. The democratic
national committee doubtless wishes
that it could import a few active tie
tse flies right away and turn them
loose in the White House.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-10

The visiting wool men received a
much more impressive notion of
Omaha's capacity as a wool market
than they could possibly have had be-
fore. Chicago will have to show
something very attractive to get this
plum away from Omaha.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-10

A German scientist claims to have
discovered in an Alpine cave evidences
that men were living in 1t 100000
years ago. He does not know what
kind of men they were, butltheir choice
of a place to I've would indicate that
they were democrats.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-10
A RemnrkabIe Orean.
sprlngfieId Republlean.

The singular phrase OF the army medical
boards decision that Col. Stewart, the
Arizona exile. is incapacitated for further
service by heart disease, is that the board
admits that he has had the disease for "a
years. The colonel feels as strong as
ever and insists that his heart can stand
the racket for a few years longer. 1t is
a remarkable organ, anyway.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-10

The Indiana court of appeals has
rendered a decision which threatens to
put Tom Taggart's gambling house at
French Lick Springs out Of commits
sion. The decision is particularly en-
barrassing to Taggart, as it comes at
a time when his chief attorney, John
w. Kern, is out making speeches for
Bryan and the moral uplift.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-10

The double-ender is shouting itself
hoarse for home rule. Voters should
bear in mind always that behind any
sp%ecious plea made by the local demo-
Gratis is the hope of their getting into
office. If they can't win on home rule
they will take some other attractive
proposition. 1t is the cry of the hun
cry for a chance at control.