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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1909-03-26
MINING Promoter ls Killed.

Kansas City, Mo-, March 26--Ieon
H. Brady, a mining engineer, shot and
killed Joseph L. Flanagan, mining
promoter. The shooting took place
at the Brady home. Brady was taken
into custody. He told the police that
Flanagan attacked Mrs. Brady in the
hall Of their home. While Mrs. Brady
was struggling to .ree herself Brady
ran to her aid and killed Flanagan.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1909-03-26


at Caracas by Revolution if Neces
sary-Says Present Administration
Will Bankrupt Venezuela.
Paris, March 2e.-Cipriano Castro,
the former president of Venezuela,
and the members of his party have
left this city for Bordeaux.
At the railroad station Senior Castro
confided to small group of Venezu,
elan adherents and admirers his in.
tention of re-establishing his power In
Venezuela by revolution, should this
be necessary. After entering the car
the deposed president of Venezuela
leaned from a window and spoke to
his countrymen with an earnestness
and passion which left no doubt in
their minds that he was convinced he
was another Napoleon returning from
Elba to reconquer his country.
Continuing, Senor Castro spoke bit,
terly of the treachery of Juan Vicente
Gomez, whom he left as vice presi.
dent and who has since been made
president of Venezuela, and predicted
that those now In control of the state
would drive the country into bank
ruptcy.
In conclusion Castro denounced as
lies the stories Of his fabulous wealth
and said he was not even rich enough
to remain in Europe, where, further
more, life had no attraction for him
His impassioned nature. he explained
yearned for activity and forced him
again into the tumult. AS the train
pulled out of the station Castro's part
ing words were:
81 believe that God and destiny cal
me back to Venezuela. l intend to
accomplish my mission there, ever
though 1t involves revolution"
Castro's friends were much i'm
pressed by what he had to say They
asserted he was man of indomitabls
will, with supreme confidence in his
own star.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-01-07
Protection Robs and Corrupts.
Presiden.

1t is 8 terrible Indictment which the
New York Evening Post makes against
our tariff system and its industrial and
political effects. But it is as true as it
Is startling The Post says:
mo justification can be urged for a
tariff which permits the steel trust to
sell its products more cheaply abroad
than at home, 10 mulct every user of
steel in this country Tor the sake of
paying dividends on its watesed stock
Still more perilous TO our institutions
Is the open traffic in legislation. The
protected interests have bought and
sold representatives and senators like
cattle. They have dealt with both sides
When Cleveland was contending for
tariff reform, Democrats like German
of Maryland deliberately betrayed the
cause. Republicans who have favored
reduction of the tariff have been
thwarted by an Aldrich or a Cannon.
The poison of class legislation has run
through all the veins of the common
wealth. Protection taints our state leg
iSlatureS and even our municipal gov
ernmentS and debauches whole elector-
ates. In every branch Of politics it has
tended to make sheer brute CONNER
cfalism the motive of action and the
test of success"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-01-07
THE DEMOCRAT.


TO demand a reduction of some es-
pecially obnoxious tariff duty and
then make the demand agree with the
protective theory seems to be the pres
sent daily work set before Republican
editorial writer's. But it is an impos-
sible task. Why don't they stand out
in their freedom as American citizens
and demand a reduction of trust shell
tering duties whether their rickety old
economic theory goes to pieces OF not?
1t is commercial freedom between the
States and not restrictive tariff tax at
the seapOrts that has made the United
States great commercial nation: and
1t is time that everybody ought to know
And it is time, too. that those who
have preached the contrary doctrine
and have sent their preachments into
the tariff taxed homes of the people
should repent them truly of their
former sins and go and sin no more.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-01-07

on the floor at the head of the Seventh
regiment band and led a procession of
brokers around the big room. The
first number down on the programme
was general confusion" In which ev-
cry one took hand
When big Dan Calligan and little
Bobby Day, the ''long and the short Of
it, of the exchange members, pranced
in ahead of the exchange quartet
dressed in chefs costumes, they were
greeted with a roar of approval The
band struck up "There'll Be a Hot
Time In the Old Town Tonight" and
the quartet sang itself red In the
face. "Bucking Ben" the favorite col
ored porter of the exchange, did a
buck and wing dance until a balloon
which knocked off his hat caused him
to lose step, and he fed before a show
er of wheat. Three teams contested in
the pushball tourney, which was fol
lowed by a fifty yard dash and sack
race. The frolic wound up with a hur-
die race on papier mache horses.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-01-07
a Plan to Increase the Efficiency
of pupiIS,

Lancaster Herald: Supt. J. G.
Brockert is at work on a plan by
which he hopes to increase the efficien-
cy Of the country school pupils in the
two fundamental studies of spelling
and writing, and one important de-
partment of Misunderstanding If
country school pupils are weak in any
departments of school it is in these
three branches. Supt. Brockert will
this week send out circulars letters to
all the rural school teachers of the
county urging them to give special at.
tenti0n to the teaching of adding.
spelling aud writing and detailing the
plan of big contest by which the best
writer's, adders and spoilers of the
district schools of Grant County will
be chosen. His plan so far as has
been made out is as follows: Each
district school will in the spring hold
local contest to chose the best pen
man, the two best adders and the two
best spoilers in the school. A week
later the Representatives of each
school in each township will meet in a
contest to decide the championship #
the township. These township
champions" will later come together
at the county seat in the grand final
contest to decide the championship of
Grant county. Considering the num-
Der of schools which will be represeu-
ted the interest throughout the county
should be very pronounced Aside
from the good natured rivalry that it
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-01-07
Practical Preparation For Service
and Success.

Young men having health, brains
and character, Wisconsin needs you.
The state invites you to enter her
normal schools and there prepare for
efficient service in the public schools.
There is constant and growing
demand for young men who are ready
to serve as teachers in high schools,
as principals of state graded schools,
of ward schools, or of grammer de-
partments and high schools. Platte
vile is unable to fill even one half of
the calls for young men ready for
such service. Especial inducements in
salary are held out to young men able
to teach the ordinary branches and al
so prepared to take charge of athle-
tics, manual training, music, physical
training, or rhetorical work.
The Platteville State Normal offers
opportunity for preparation in all
these lines. The second semester be-
gins Monday, January %. This is d
good time to enter as new classes start
in the different subjects. Tuition is
entirely free. Write to the President
for catalog and further information
and prepare at once to join the hun
dred young men already enrolled ia
this school. J. W. LIVINGSTON,
President,
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-01-07
LOSING POPULATION.
Emigration From the United States
In Excess of immigration.

In Excess of immigration.
Figures issued by the United States
government show that in the year end,
ing June 80 1908, only G87, 900 alien
immigrants entered the United States
as compared with 100000 during the
nearly so per cent in immigration has
taken place since the panic of last Oc-
tober is shown by figures given out by
the steamship companies. stating that
only 1S65S6 aliens have arrived in the
six months following Jan. l, 1908, as
compared with 739, 74S during the same
six months of last year.
At the same time the emigration
from the United States back to Eu-
ropean countries has increased amaz-
ingly. The steamship companies are
said to have records of the sailing Of
377,644 aliens returning to foreign
homes in the first six months of 1908
as compared with 1922 who went
In the first half of 1907 1t will thus
be seen that many more working peo-
pie are going back to Europe than are
coming to the United States
These facts at once emphasize the
very serious character of the industrial
depression existing during the past
nine months and show that but for
this unexpected and unaccustomed
movement of people out of the coun-
Try the suffering from hard times and a
congested labor market would have
been much greater. This emigration
barometer seems TO indicate in the
minds Of foreign born Americans
suspicion that the tariff will not be
able to give the United States any
advantage over Europe in the relation
of wages TO the cost of living
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-01-07
New Years
With Brokers
FUN A-pIenty Marks che
Years Last Business
Day.

~ I'LL care, the protege of bust
II y ness worry, tumbles over itself
w to get off the floor of the New
York Produce Exchange at the
end of the year. Assaulted with grain,
pelted with confetti and laughed at by
gallery crowded with pretty women,
it vanishes completely for at least a
day.
Last year nearly every member of
the exchange was present to partici-
pate in the rOut. More hats were
smashed than ever before in a Produce
Exchange frolic. 1t was good natured
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-01-07

rough house" for two hours, and hat
tiers and tailors reaped the reward.
When the fun started at p. m the
floor was crowded. and the wives and
sweethearts of the members filed the
gallery. Hundreds of bags of confetti
We're tossed from the rostrum. Next
came q shower of tin horns. followed
by rolls of multicolored tape and a
deluge Of balloons. Every one was hit
with something. and the heavier the
assaults the greater the fun. A bri-
gade stormed the gallery with con-
fetti and balloons. and the screams of
laughing women sounded above the
hoarse roar en- the floor
The fusillade subsidized when the
chairman of the committee marched
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-01-07
q Nervy Fellow,

Gle isn't a man of much nerve"
'On the contrary, he is the nerViest
man | know"
How do you make that out?"
''Why, | saw him one New Years
pass his janitor without giving the fell
low a tip
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-01-07
Herrings Insure Prosperity.

To insure prosperity and good luck
during the ensuing year. eat behring's
on New Years eve or, if this edible is
disliked, sleep with a piece of new and
a piece of dead coal under your pillow
on that and the eight following nights
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-01-07
About Buying a Rig.
Say, John !!

Say, John!
You re evidently taking your time about buying
that rig but we don't blame for going slow in the
matter. 1t is your privilege make comparisons get
prices, and buy the best for the least money.
All we ask is that consider in the transaction.
We have every style vehicle that this locality demands es
pecaly adapted range prices elastic
enough to fit the present condition of your finance.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-01-07
Good Luck Versus Beauty.

In Hungary the peasants have firm
belief that male child born on New
Years day cannot fail to be lucky,
though female child will never have
any good luck. but will be very beau
tiful
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-01-07
A New and very Desirable
Residence.

The homestead of the late Samuel
Jenkin, has been placed with US for sale and
will be sold cheaply II sold quickly
Crawford Bros.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-01-07
Bob IedS

We manufacture three kinds of bobs-the old reliable
Three Bench, the Oscilating and the Anti-Tip
We don't want your patronage we can prove our
selves worthy of it. Just give us show
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-01-07

will surely bring forth it will no doubt
accomplish the results that the county
superintendent hopes for.
The Washington herald., 1909-05-25
FREE RAW MATERIAL.
Country Demands II, and a Revision
Downward.

Fru1 ths PhflzdG1hn PTss
President Taft has the country. East
West. North. and South. with him In
MS demand for free raw materials IN the
tariff and a reasonable revision down
ward
His declaration az Petersburg against
any duty on lumber has had a universal
response The authoritative declaration
Of the his views in the Sunday Press viii
have Ike approval Free lumber, hides
coal. petroleum. and iron ore are wanted
throughout the country, nowhere more
than II the Eastern States
The great industries OF this city favor
this step, without abating az any point
or IN any way their support OF protec-
ton Protective duties must be main
tained. The difference between wages
and the cost Of production at home and
abroad must be protected. No schedule
must be - IL a level which admits the
competition Of foreign labor
But free raw materials mean more work
and more wages for American labor. The
shoe dealers and shoe manufacturers who
went 20 Washington last week asking for
free hides know this. A great trust con-
trols this raw material This is true OF
iron ore and petroleum. Trusts play
their part in controlling lumber and coal
These raw materials ought each to be
free
The Washington herald., 1909-05-25
THE WHITE FLOWER.
A Mother Tribute from One who
Feels but Knows Not.

Frun the Lakeland Fla News
He never knew her His coming into
the world was the signal for her going
forth A few brief days she clasped him
70 her heart-the heart whose last beats
were most for him; then, ere the baby
eyes had learned 70 look with recogni-
ton upon her. she kissed them closed
and closed her own forever.
Vaguely through LIE he missed her.
Times. as a boy. when the night wind
mOaned outside. and within fantastic
figures and shapes OF fear formed in the
darkness. he covered beneath the covers
OF his cot and wept passioustely for
something that he wanted but could not
name-though afterward he knew that
the thing he craved vas sheltering mother
love His playmates had ever a source
of unfailing love and sympathy, from
which he saw them copiously and
continuously draw; and he felt that the
Fates had left something out OF the
scheme OF his Hfe. and In the midst OF
the bUoyancy Of youth his eyes would
grow wistful and his heart be sad
Then a man-ald sometimes. after the
struggle OF the day. when came the
quiet hour-musing Ger food and field.
OF gazing far out into the sad and sol
enn sea-he would dream Of the land
beyond the setting sun-Of the mystic
glories which eye hath not seen-and Of
her, who loved him first Aye. others
came and crept into his heart. and dlled
Il with a love that was almost pain: but
IN its inueTmOst holy OF holes he kept
ever & chamber i1yiOlate for the mother
ne never knew.
And It pleased him 10 believe that.
though he saw her not, she walked
through life beside him. and many times
made her presence felt IN sweet s1gges-
ton OF kindly need, n silent STRINGS OF
the heart that turned him from tempta-
tons way. And whatever Of good, or
gentisneSs. or generous impulse ever
bl0ssomed in his LIE, to her he gave the
credit
Therefore, on Mothers Day. when
thousands have the blessed privilege OF
laying the vGtive Offering OF their love
al living mothers feet, and other thou
sands 1--we over tender memories of days
when mothers walked by their slde-he
wears the white flower fOr her-fOr her
TO whom he believes his nature owes its
best
So. in the dusk OF this dear day. while
the flower is fading, though It's fragrance
fingers still, he writes these lines for the
sake OF those who, like 70 him, knew
mother only in the land OF dreams.
The Washington herald., 1909-05-25
lie ANrERICAN RANnIEr

We Have With Us Tonight" What happens at
that great Arnsri1a Institution the bsnqust. B7
Samuel G. Blythe. Henry Altsnus Company, Phfs-
delphia-
This little voIums. beautifully printed.
capitaIly illustrated. and attractively
bound. is as good thing of the kind as
ever came from the press.
Always entertaining, Mr Blythe is
surprisingly so in We Have With Us
Tonight" He INTRODUCES In print folks
that are familiar to US all We have met
them before There Is the typical toast
master, and there are the typical after
dinner speechmakers- Boresome types
they are. all Of them. We meet them
season after season at banquet boards.
II matters not whether the banquet be
held IN Washington, New York, Chicago.
S7uedunk. Possurn Hollow, or Kalams-
zoo, M Blythe's types are IN evidence
II institutions, organizations, societies.
ana the Ike. that give banquets and
nurse ambition 10 shine az the festive
board viii al read Mr. Blythe's We
Have With Us Tonight" adopt 1t as a
textbook, and resolve not 70 90 the things
his typical Americans do-if they viii
only read and profit by the reading. then
national digestion viii be greatly pro-
moted and fewer banQueters VIII be
drit 4 70 drink
The Washington herald., 1909-05-25

court solennly pronounced essential 10
accord the defendant every right and
guarantee which the organic law Of the
State secures to him."
Doubtless the records Of the higher
courts OF every State would furnish Ike
examples Of judicial fidelity 10 the techni-
cal. and even the decisions Of the United
States Supreme Court are not free from
them, as may be gathered from the fact
that this high tribunal has more than
once reversed the conviction Of a red
handed murderer for an unimportant error
OF the court below The Springfield Re
publican quotes two cases from the
Mississippi Supreme Court records. An
indictment for murder alleged tha- the
victim then died" The verdict was re-
versed because il should have read did
then and there die" IN the other case
It was alleged in the indictment that the
defendant did then and there wiIlfully
and feloniously set FIRE TO and burn" a
barn This would have passed muster
II it had contained the word malicious
ly.' ana the omission Of that adverb was
deemed sufficient reason for reversal Of
a presumably just verdict In the minor
courts OF New York City violations OF
the liquor laws are difficult 70 punish
because the judges have invented such
bubbles as that the chemical composition
Of a drink must be proved before IL can
be shown that an Illegal sale was made.
or that q sale to q police officer is not a
violation OF the law because made under
duress. without intent to commit crime.
and Is. therefore. not a crime.
II Is judicial absurdity to assert that
these technical applications OF the law
are in any true sense q guarantee to the
Individual OF rights or person. They
amount. IN fact, to maladministration Of
justice, and as such merit the condemna-
don OF every good citizen
The Washington herald., 1909-05-25
A Perplexing Problem.

The present strike on the Georgia Rail-
road sppeoS1 to be the outgrowth OF race
feeling entirely. If anything else enters
into il. ii IS not apparent The issue
seems 10 be brutany frank-the negro
fremen Hgst be dismissed, OF no future
white help viii be forthcoming. and The
consequent trouble and confusion incident
10 that is nothing short OF appalling TO
contemplate.
It IS somewhat difficult from this point
Of view 10 appreciate thoroughly OF IN
QuanfeaIy indorse the attitude Of the white
employees The negro has been employed
in the South in the capacity OF railroad
fireman almost continuously since the war
He has worked side by side with the
white engineer. and he has seemingly
fitted in 20 the work assigned 20 him
nicely and satisfactorily Just why It
should suddenly be discovered that he is
working where he ought not to be work
ing is not easy Of immediate compre-
hension. The fireman does nothing much
more than shovel coal and oil the en-
gine. It is dirty. greasy work-not very
attractive from any point OF view. no
matter how honorable.
We hardly see what is TO become OF
the negro If every avenue Of endeavor is
closed to him the moment he begins
20 reach something approximating a state
OF perfection IN IT, The railroads have
always drawn the line against making
him an engineer, holding that the average
negro is not Intellectually equipped for
that delicate and highly important work.
and that the occasional exception, 4
otherwise desirable. would. perhaps, raise
the very trouble that has at last come
upon the fremen.
A negro al work is an infinitely more
desirable citizen than a negro idle There
are many lines Of business we think he
viii do well 10 leave to the white nan
But shOveling coal-Well. surely We never
thought his adaptab!lIty to that would
be questioned If he may not shovel
coal. what may he do?
Poor Sambo, With al his faults. he
IS very much up against #" IN this
world. We fear. His Iot IS pathetic in
many OF its details. He ought not TO
be here. and he did not come Of his own
accord. But he IS here What shall he
DC that he may earn an honest IveIi-
hood and yet not step on the white
mans toes?
The Washington herald., 1909-05-25
TEMPLE OF TURPTTUDE.
Only Three Americans Found Entf-
tiSd 10 Membership in II.

tiSd TO Membership in II.
Prom TIE Kansss Csty Journal
An esteemed Boston contemporary has
varied the rather hackneyed effort 10
determine the ten best books. the fifty
great Americans. &C. BY setting I'D what
may be called museum OF Nephisto-
pheleS. hall OF infany as distinguished
from the overcrowding halls Of fame.
Boston IS patriotic in al things, and,
OF course, could hardly h1d 10 A1neri-
cans worthy OF membership IN the Ten
PIE OF Turpitude- Therefore II widens
the scope Of its inquiries and adopts the
open-dOor policy On the great dishonor
roll OF the nations II inscribss 100 names.
and only three OF them are those OF
Americans.
This malOGorOus trio is composed OF
Benedict Arnold. Simon Girty. and Gen.
Charles Lee Probably more diligent
research would unearth even more Amer
leans wao ought 10 be Included IN the
list, but there viii be few 70 deny the
justice OF characterizing these three men
as the most Infamous II our country. Il
IS said that the name OF Burr was con
sidered, but rejected n favor OF Lee.
though possibly one OF the DISTINGUISHED
foreign despOts, murderers. and what
not might have been displaced But Bur-
accomplished 50 little cOuparatfveiv
that he was not deemed ct 20 associate
with Nero. Caltgula, Abdul Hanid. and
other eminent scOUndreIs- Surely, how
ever. our weil-known ancestor. Adam.
might have been left or and his place
given 20 one more nefari0us. But the
Hub compiler evidently believes that q
man who commits al evil deed and hides
behind his wife's skirts-or. rather, her
fg leaves-is Ike The man who hath
not music IL his soul and loves not the
concord OF sweet sounds. OF words 10
that effect. qualified company for all the
despicabls characters OF history. and IT
only for treason, s1ratagems, and
spoils" L Is fitting, az least. that retri-
button should finally overtake Adam al
the hands OF Massachusetts, where the
preponderance OF women ever men is
weu known
Probably the American LIST could not
be improved on. and that IS the chief
concern over here. Arnold the traitor:
Lee the traitor and tTaducer OF Wash
ington. and Girty the infamous renegade
ally OF the merciless Indians OF colonial
times. are n adequate and weII-selected
company. II is worthy of note that ali
the Americans on this roll Of infamy be-
long 10 Revolutionary times. and that not
for more than a hundred years has an
American been produced who Is named
among the 100 worst men IN history.