The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1909-01-29

lndorses College For Education of
Young DipIomats-PIans on Foot
For Their Beneft-Pension System
For Old Age.
Unusual efforts are to be made dur
ing the next few weeks to place be-
fore the public the great need of the
extension of Americal commerce
abroad in foreign lands by means of
more uniformly well trained consuls.
The National Business League of
America has written strong indorse-
ment of the effort of the George Wash
ington university Of Washington to de-
velop a great consular training school
In connection with its new College of
Political Sciences and will send this
Endorsement out broadcast.
1t is the intention to create in the
public mind the great necessity for a
new law which will give the perma-
nency of statute to reform regulations
inaugurated by President Roosevelt
and Secretary Root which aim at the
divorcing Of consular appointments
and politics and placing the appoint
ments on the same basis as In the
army and navy.
With this idea In view representa-
tive business men of the country have
approved of the establishment of the
consular training school, where any
ambitious young man may fit himself
for the important duties of a consular
Office and where he may look forward
to a career of service without fear
that the next change in political ad-
ministration will cause his recall.
In connection with the indorsemenr
Of the National Business League of
America there will also be issued two
pamphlets written by men familiar
with the needs of consular training,
says a Washington special dispatch to
the Chicago Herald. One is from the
pen Of Richard D. Harlan, ID. D.,
Ii. D., special representative of the
George Washington university move
ment and the other by John Ball Os-
borne, chief of the hrceau of trade
| relations, which is reprinted from the
North American Review with addi-
| tonal notes.
In its letter Of Endorsement the Ma
tional Business league says that the
| extension of American commerce
| abroad and the increase of the ma
TONS influence In foreign lands are
matters which must interest every
public spirited citizen. 1t points out
that more uniformly trained consuls
would secure this boon and that the
proposed new law and the establish
| ment Of a special consular training
school would supplement each other
The National Business leagues letter
reads as follows:
/ The league desires most impartially tc
commend all Of these educational prof.
4 ects to the generous financial support OF
the business men of the country. Only In
this way can we develop that class OF
trained men mentioned by Secretary Root
| from which the state department car
draw for it's appointments to the foreign
service in order that 1t may maintain the
high standards that have at last beer
created for the consular service.
i But In order to cooperate with the uni
versities in their efforts to provide spe-
cial education for the new consular serv'
ice career opened up by the reform reg
ulations the great commercial organfza
tons and influential business men thronSh
out the land must now stir themselves tt
| united action In favor OF the immediate
passage by congress of a proper law
| which, as DIR. Harlan well puts 1t, "wil
| give the permanency OF the stutute to the
| regulations which now merely rest upoI
An executive order"
DR.. Harlan In his pamphlet reprints
letters of commendation from Secre
tary Elihu Root In answer to a point
ed inquiry from a special group o.
New York importers, who ask, "Wha
guarantee would the business inter
ests Of the country have that the bes
graduates of such schools would &C
tually get the new appointments II
the consular service?" Mr.. Roots re
ply was so eminently satisfactory tina
they have since all subscribed to tn.
sustentation fund Of the university.
Secretary Root declared he woult
raise the standards Of admission tt
the consular service 100 per cent 1
the means were at hand for preparin:
enough men to attain those standards
Among the new plans on foot ar
higher salaries for the upper ranks o
consulates, a pension system to carr
for old age after the best years OF th'
consul officers have been given owe
to the service.
Broken FIanee tho Cause.
Cheyenne, Wyo., JAM 2S.-lt i
learned that broken f'ange was th'
cause of the wreck OF the Oregon ex
press on the Union Pacific railroad
near Dana, in which one person wa
killed and thirty injured. There ar
no further additions to the list of cas-
ualties and it Is said that all OF tn
injured are making favorable pros
ress.
| Captain Keeler Dead.
| Columbus, O., Jan. 28.-Captai
Alexis Keeler, sergeant-at-arms 9
nine consecutive Republican nations
| conventions is dead of heart trOubl,