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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1909-01-16
KERN ISSUES STATEMENT
Blames the Secret Ballot for Loss Of
Senatorship.

Indianapolis, Jan. 16-The selection
nominee for United States senator by
Democratic members of the state leg
islature was followed by a statement
from John w. Kern, who was Shive-
ly's strongest opponent.
Concerning the secret ballot, against
which Kern made a hard fight, he
says 1t made possible not only the
betrayal of constituents by their rep
resentatives, but all sorts of "treach-
cry, double dealing and corrupt prac-
tjcaS -
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1909-01-16
Crew Reaches Shore Safely.

Pittsburg, Jan. 16-As a result of
a peculiar accident the towboat Dave
Wood was sunk at government dam
No. 4, in the Ohio river. The twenty
three members of the crew reached
shore safely. While passing over the
dam, it is supposed, the suction caused
by the boats movement drew up one
of the wickets, which punched a hole
through the hull. The loss will not
be heavy.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1909-01-16
BOMBARDS GERMAN VESSEL
Reason for Action Of Liberian Gun
boat Not Stated.

Konakry, French Guinea, West At
rica, Jan. 16.-News has just been re-
ceived here that the Liberian customs
gunboat Lark has bombarded a Ger
man steamer of the Woerman line off
the coast of Liberia. The reason fol
this action Is not given A German
guardship from Kamerum has sailed
for Liberia.
The Woerman line runs steamers
from Hamburg around Africa.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1909-01-16
Lambert's Body Identified.

Topeka, KAN, Jan. 16.-The body of
l. e. Lambert, which was taken from
the ruins of the Copeland hotel, was
identified by DR.. j. e. Morgan, an
Emporia dentist Following a close
investigation of the teeth Dr. Morgan
declared they were those of Mr.. Lam
bert, as he recognized the filings.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1909-01-16
Three Hundred Miners Strike.

Coal City, ILL.,, Jan. 16.-Three hun
dred miners of the Big Four company
struck because the company has not
built hopper for weighing coal and
continues car pit weighing. To change
the system of weighing would take
four weeks.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1909-01-16
Truth and
Quality

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success and creditable standing. Accor-
ingly, it is not claimed that Syrup of Figs
and Elixir of SIENNA is the only remedy Of
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rists.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1909-01-16
Saws He Would Not Accept.

Washington, Jan. 16.-Representa-
tive Charles S. Lands of Indiana de-
clined to discuss the published report
that he had been offered the position
of public printer Mr. Lands said,
however: Il am going home to live
on my farm. would not accept that
office"
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1909-01-16
CELEBRATION OF
POE CENTENARY
Exercises Begun Today at
University of Virginia.
WILL CONTINUE FOUR DAYS

Next Tuesday Marks One Hundredth
Anniversary of the Birth of the Au-
thor of "The Raven" and "The
BelIs"-Eoston, Providence, New
York and Baltimore to Join in Pay.
ing Honor to His Memory.
Washington, Jan. 16.-With the
opening today of the room of Edgar
Allan Foe at the University of Vir-
ginia as a Poe museum the national
celebration of the centenary of the
great writer's birth began.
There will be no one great central
celebration of the one hundredth an
niversary of the poets birth, which
occurs Jan. 19. A number of sep
arate celebrations, however, will be
held in his honor-one in Boston.
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Elihu than of the other interloeutors' nor, to tell the plain truth. do I see that 1t was more true of them than 1t is now of almost all the speakers and writers who enter upon the discussion of the same themes. If a man. nowadays, can talk for ten minutes on ''the interpre- tation of Providence" and not utter good deal of nonsense, you may be sure that he is oae out of thousand How many of us heard sermons at the begin ming of the war between the states prov ing CD that the Southern Confectionery must succeed because God was just? And how many men, after the war was over, were brought. by similar train of req soning, to adopt the Napoleonic maxim that Providence is on the side of the strongest battalions"? The maxim has an infidel sound, it is true; but it contains more sense and more truth than does the conclusion from which it is the natural recoil.
 Again:
 How many of us, since the war. have been hearing and reading vast masses of nonsense about the logic of events" proving that slavery was wrong, because "Providence has abolished it." when any
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the discussion of the various topics of the book"
 That Jobs three friends, Elihu, and Job himself were uninspired men, Is assumed by Dr. Conant and is only an assump- tion, though I believe that it could be proved, and Dr. conant somewhat over states the absurdity of the view opposed to his own. When I find Paul in 1 Corin- thians S:19, quoting Eliphaz in Job 5:13, and introducing the quotation with the formula "as 1t Is written" the question at once arises Did Paul mean to teach that Eliphaz was speaking under in spirationT And to this I answer that Paul was not concerning himself with any such question; but that he simply adopted and adapted the language of Eliphaz, and applied 1t to a matter which Eliphaz never thought of. Any honest study of the quotations in the New Tes- lament will probably lead the thoughtful reader to conclude that many of them are purely literary In their use and pur- pose, and that if a quotation was fitted ito point a moral, or adorn a tale,' the New Testament writer so used it, with out troubling himself with questions of Biblical criticism"
 We may make out a satisfactory proof
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none of us need go far to find some querulous critics, who can do won ders in this direction. But Is there any reason to believe that scolding Is proof of inspiration? And if Jehovah's silence as to Elihu is to be regarded as proof of the divine ap- proval of the views expressed by E1ihu, then we have the divine approval of Satin; for he. too. is a character in the drama. and Jehovah does not con- demn him at the close.
 On the other hand, I cannot agree with those critics who go to the other extreme, and say that Elihu was a conceited upstart and that Jehovah does not notice him, because he had said nothing that was worthy of notice. He said many things that were, and still are, true; and, upon the whole, I am not sure that he does not speak as well as the other in terlocutors, Job. Ellphaz, Bildad and Zophar.
 It is certain that all these characters had partial, imperfect and unsatisfactory views of the character and course of Di- vine Providence, but I cannot see that this was more conspicuously true of
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: STUDY-By J. C. Hiden, D. D.

man of sense ought to be able to see, at glance. that the same argument. before the war, would have proved that slavery was right. because Providence had es- tabllshed 1t" If the abolition of slavery under the permission of Divine provi- dence shows that slavery was wrong. how can we escape the conclusion that kidnapping slaves was right? Was not this done under the same Providence7
 The truth is that we know of no depart ment of thought on which men-yes, good pious, Christian men-talk so much non sense. and impiety. and downright pro- fanity, as they do talk when they under take to interpret Providence"
 Now 1t was just precisely this that Elihu and the other interlocutors were attempt ing. The very point before them was, Why has God done this thing2' But God had not told any one why he had done 1t; and if he had told his reason, we do not believe that any living man could have understood it. Further: when Jehovah is introduced at the close, he does not explain anything to anybody. He distinctly refuses to do anything of the kind. Nay, he does just the reverse
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T. N his very able, thoughtful and schol-
 arly commentary on the Book of Job, 4 Dr. Conant tells us that there need be no doubt that Job was a veritable historical person; and. in support of this view. he adduces the well-known pas sages in Ezekiel 1414-2O, and in James, 511. In both passages Job is treated as a historical person. pr. Conant seems rather to assume than to vouch for the historical existence of Jobs three friends and of Elihu; but the u1historical or mythical or dramatic character of these personages would be very difficulty-nay, impossible to prove; and such a view Is compassed with insuperable objections
 I believe that Dr. Conant is in the main right. though bold, in taking the follow ing position, namely, that the discourses in the Book of Job "all proceed from the inspired writer; that the supposi- tion that we have here the very words of Job and his friends; that un1nspired men expressed themselves thus, and the sacred writer only reports their language, is too absurd to be entertained for a moment; that the whole Is the production of the inspired writer and this Is the mode selected by Divine Wisdom for giving us
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of Elihus existence as a historical char acter. however. whatever may be thought of his inspiration. Our proof rests on much the same basis as does that of the historical existence of Job, though the argument varies somewhat in it's form. Outside of the book of Job, we can point to no passage in which the historical ex- istence of Elihu is assumed but we are informed that he was a Buzite and In Genesis 22;20-21, we learn that Bug was a son of Manor, Abrahams s brother. The historical existence of Jobs three friends, Eliphaz, Bndad and zophar, can be made out on evidence of the same sort.
 The character of Ellhu has been variously estimated. Some critics have regarded him as the mouthplece of Jehovah. This view seems to rest upon the fact that Elihu condemns both Job and his friends; and upon the further fact that Jehovah does not con demn Elihu, as he does Job and his friends. in the closing chapters of the book.
 Now, this Is strange reasoning. If wholesale condemnation of ones asso- clates be evidence of inspiration from the Almighty, then the days of in spiration are certainly not past; for
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of explaining. He adds problem to prob lem, and puzzle to puzzle, and mystery to mystery, and then explains-nothing
 It would seem that men are wonderful ly slow to learn the very important les- son which the Book of Job certainly does teach-namely. that we are not to darken counsel by words without knowledge. Human learning has done very little for any man, if 1t has not taught him to take some account of human ignorance.
 T don't know Is a short and simple answer: but if often requires wisdom to give this answer to questions which any fool can settle with glibness and with perfect satisfaction to-himself.
 Now. as to the charge of immodesty, which has been urged against Elihu: we may say that. when we make due al- lowance for oriental phraseology, and then call to mind some of the "interpre- tations of Provldence' frequently heard from our pulpits, and published in our religious newspapers, we are not sure that Elihu was not at least as modest as are the majority of the speakers and writers who, in our day, venture to treat of the subject which Elihu was discus sing.
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dier. or the polite demagogue. Thought less folk tell us the courts threaten our liberties. There Is not a bit of danger. When liberty dies It's last ditch will be in the precincts of the judiciary.
 The regulation of every American fam fly by act of Congress, as is proposed in federal child labor laws, would be more cruel blow to liberty than any ad- judication of any court that ever sat in England or America ever dealt, and when the last Stuart King sought to restore the absolutism of the Plantagenets it was not the parliament, but the court, that thwarted his design.
 That Congress will enact child labor law to apply to the states is quite likely for there Is nothing imaginable that the American Congress will not vote for If there be enough clamor for 1t. New Eng land is for a federal child labor law be- cause some cotton mills down south em- ploy children. My information Is that those children are infinitely better off than they were in the mountains of the Appalachian chain, where their fathers made moonshine whisky and left them to misery in the cabin. They have opportun- ities their parents never dreamed of They attend church and are taught In school part of the year. They are comfortably clothed, sufficiently fed. and are mem bers of society immeasurably further advanced in civilization than that in which they were born. The real fact is that what New England Is concerned about Is that the south has driven her out of the coarse cotton fabric trade, and before the world Is much older the south will
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south, by those interested In agricultural pursuits. is for diversified crops. Our own secretary of agriculture has only re- gently, with praiseworthy purpose, put up prizes for the best products of the farm. AS MT. Wilkinson pointed out, so have I long argued that much of the money produced by cotton and sent an- nually to the north and west for food stuffs could be kept at home by raising these products at home But where are the people who will do the raising? They seem to forget that. How much of the 9O,0O0 square miles of lands in Alabama are cultivated and how much of it belongs to the small farmer? Most of the cul- tivated and open lands are owned by planters who rent them to negro tenants. The negro tenants know nothing but to raise cotton and corn on credit, mortgag- ing their crop before it is made. Neither do the negro tenants care or know any thing about soil culture. Much of other lands are owned by lumbermen and land dealers and speculators. Often such lands change owners a dozen times with out DelHB OCcupleu Dy dHy tiilcIS Ol tile soil Scattered here and there through out our state are few small farmers striving to do real farming and a few planters with progressive ideas and able to work their plantations accordingly.
 Many other planters throughout the state if not in Montgomery county, have the ideas, but lacking the people on their lands to carry them out. And all of them. like the commercial associations, like the great industries in our district. make no united effort, pay no heed to the great factor in the real development of our state, to get the people which are need ed for the progress of any state-the real producers of wealth. the people they need for their own interests-the working men and farmer.
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CHILD LABOR LAWS-By Savoyard

of one party, and Bryan, of the other. agreed in nothing else, are in accord that American fathers and mothers are not fit to rear children.
 Eldon. lord chancellor of England. was such a statesman, gifted with all the vir- tues and endowed with all the talents, ex- cept wisdom. Lord Palmerston, as justly as wittily said to him. "In the history of the universe no man has the praise of having effected so much good for his fellow-creatures as Lord Eldon has thwarted." He was never before, or since, has conscience had so vigilant and so zealous a jaer. The King was a man after Eldons own heart, as Eldon was a man after the Kings own heart. That volume of Campbells Lives of the Lord Chancellors," devoted to Eldon is as readable as a novel to one even mod erately acquainted with the history of England under the Hanoverian dynasty, and Lord Eldons early career is a pleas ing and romantic chapter. Young Jack Scott, designed for the church, ran off with charming Bessie Surtees to Scot land got married. They were utterly ruined, and their only visible means of support was devoted love, apparent to everybody. His father relented, however, though her parents did not. and gave him enough to afford him a moderate support. No church living, for which he wac educated, falling vacant, Scott real ized the truth that comes to most of us "He needs must go that the devil drives"
 And so he studied for the bar was called, received some retainers in impor- tant Allegations, and so greatly did he dis H.. Ia
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goods, named Lareau. Here the mirror was to be found.
 Ade inspected 1t carefully and found 1t to be all that Cary had claimed for it. fine type of the so-called "Colonial' period of furniture-makng. The price was $10 and Ade at once agreed to take it.
 In big, round handwriting he wrote his name and the address of his Indiana farm upon Lareaus uch-bethumbed or der book and instructed him to ship the mirror at once. No mention was made of how or when payment was to be made. Late that afternoon the telephone in MT. Cary's office rang. Mir. Cary an- swered and the following dialogue en- sued.
 Hello. MT. Cary; this is Lareau You know that fellow named Abe that was In here with you-''
 His name Is Ade. Mir. Lareau; A-d-e."
 'Ah I thought it was Abe. and-and--"
 'No he's a farmer down in Indiana"
 Well. is he 'good'Y Y'
 'Yes, he's good He showed me a check for $50, and he owns his farm clear. He'll pay you when he gets the mirror"
 Well, I guess I'll take a chance" and the greatly treasured Lareau hung up the receiver.
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DEVELOPMENT OF AkABAMA-By s. Hechinger

household utensils, etc., must have to be- gin with-especially in the south-a big home market. Besides they need great number of skilled craftsmen, which the south does not possess and which are diff ficult to get here-because the south has never made effort to get them-and the great majority of the workngmen, skilled and unsl1illed, must first be told what the south really is-to dispel among them the many false ideas they have about the south.
 In the foregoing I desired to point out the curious fact that the commercial bodies of our state seem never to have realized that 1t is just as important to the development of a state to induce workingmen and farmers to come here as it Is to get capitalists and industries that in fact, to get one without the other produces unsatisfactory results and often no lasting benefits-no continuous develop ment and progress.
 Here in our district we need reliable white working men with families, and the more our industries expand the great CT will become that need. And if Bir- mingham's ambition spreads toward hav- ing industries making manufactured ar ticles, besides our mines and fur naces this need will become still more urgent. But in agricultural centers like Montgomery and Selma, for instance, the best efforts should be directed towards increasing the rural population of their territory. Nor should we here neglect such efforts. In the five counties surrounding us there Is room for more than 5o,0o0 small farmers, with their families.
 But the commercial associations of our neglected that side of the development of Alabama. The present cry throughout our state, and for that matter all through the
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ever wore the French purple the crafti- est statesman of an age when every lions skin required the fox's to ele it out.
 But this free government of ours Is pragmatical to a degree and insufferably paternal as was shown by an act of the first session of the Sixtieth Congress wherein 1t is made unlawful for children to work in the District of Columbia and so our barber was delivered to the judge, a just and lenient man, as 1t proved. who warned him and put him under bond. the effect of which Is to require him to rear his son a vagabond-that is, he must wait till the boy is 16 before he can teach him to be a barber. Thus our lawgvers on Capitol Hill assume that the parents of this town are the enemies of their children and even of their friends. They do not know how to rear them. The bill should have been entitled An act to encourage vagrancy in the District of Columbia" There is now pend ing In Congress a proposal to extend this nonsense to the states, thus making some 2OoOo,0OO boys and girls wards of the government at this center
 Statesmen who devise mischievous schemes like child labor laws. such as maintains in this District and such as it is proposed to apply to all the states, re- call Shakespeare's criticism of Ajax-if they had all the arms of Briareus they could not touch, and if they had all the eyes of Argus they could not see. Able, brilliant, virtuous, philanthropio, honest. patriotic, their efforts tend to evil, and failure comes in their wake Beyeridge
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A BOUT two months ago I had the
 "A pleasure of an interview with MT. A Forbes the president of the Com mercial club of Montgomery. Our sub ject was the development of our state and the means to be adopted to bring about tho desired results. Said MT. Forbes:
 Tn almost the whole of Montgomery county the lands belong to large planters and big landowners. None of them would sell an acre of their lands except for a big price; in fact they do not care to have any small farmers come in at all. If you can show me otherwise, will do all I can to help you with your plans"
 A short time afterwards I read in the papers that the Commercial club of Montgomery gave MT. Dave, its secre- tary, $250o to expend on the development of Montgomery's district and the state In just what way now does the Conner cial club of Montgomery intend to deve- op its city and territory? Of course 1t is the old story-by bringing capital and in- dustries there. Let us suppose now, for the sake of the argument, that 50 capital ists should be induced to come there to establish new industries and commercial enterprises. such as retail stores and wholesale business houses. etc. To whom would these new retail stores and whole sale houses sell their goods without a correspondingly increased population in their territory and city? And as for the new industries. they would have difficult task to get sufficient skilled labor to come there. not saying anything about not hav- ing a sufficient home market for their products.
 Our Birmingham district Is different. The products of our industries are mainly iron and coal-products which can be sold all over the country. But factories mak- ing articles such as shoes, furniture, tools,