The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1894-10-12
kYl.E.< APOLOGY.
For HIS Vote On Sngar and Wool.
He Argues for Free Trade and DE.
ClarcS He Wants 10 strike IA
Blow at American man.
UfacturcrS.

opera house IA this city last week was a
direct answer to the populist contention
that the tariff is out a sham issue put up
by the money power to keep the real is
sues obscured Almost every populst
speaker who has ever been here before
has asserted this, and the poor deluded
republicans and democrats have been
pitied for being so gullible as to discuss
the tariff question. One Of the speakers
IN the grove few months ago proved TO
! the satisfaction Of his sympathetic hearers
that the difference between democratic
and republican tariff was just 3 cts
! per capita for the year. But if he and
the other populist speakers we're right
then kve's whole speech was the big
gest sham battle ever attempted, tor out
of his hour and three quarter speech he
devoted one hour and a quarter to fight
ing this SHAN" tariff question and fifteen
minutes to tree silver. OF what our
| popuist friends have continuously as
serted were the real issues he was as
mum as an oyster. He said not one
word If The great populist doctrine OF
of subreasurv. not one word on govern
ment ownership Of railroads, not one
| word on the issue of fiat money. not q
word on the naturalization of the liquor
| traiiic, not word about the initiative
and referendum. or any of the other great
reforms " He told his popullst frlenas
that they were not devoting tue tlme
they should to the tariff question, and
! they ought to inform themselves upon
The subject, which was very good advice,
as the senator knows as we'll AS anybody
that the wil-otne wisps they have been
| chasing under the name OF reforms, are
nhantoms which vanish when held up
the scrutinizing eye Of sound logic and
| matter Of tact experience.
The senator began his speech by stat
! mo that when he entered the senate
here were but two populist senators and
/ there are now six. that the fears oil his
fellows senators that he WAS an anarchist
had departed, but he did not refer 10
tho aaarchistic resolution which ne
introduced just a few months ago. ana
which raised storm OF indignation
from one END OF the land to the other,
and which was denounced by pa'riotlc
men OF all parties in the senate, southe'h D
and northern senators, democrats ana re-
| pub,icans vleiny with each other III
| condemnation Of it's utter dlsioyalty.
Even Kyle himself became SO asha'hea
~ i that he refused to bring 1t before
the senate Tor discussion. lie cited the
a,s,ressful condition Of the country ana
stated that it was not owing TO demo
cratic control of the government, ana
thai The same conditions would preVali
il the government was under fepuolcah
! control IGNORING the fact that the year
1899 before the shadow OF tree trade 1ell
| ,nnn the land. has been proved by all
commercial anu government statistics, 'o
ave been the most prosperous that the
ca,,try has ever known. lie told how
+;rod he and all tha other senators were
| he,nra congress adjourned, but he forgo'
to mention that the people also shared
hat tired feeling when they looked upon
no Smokeless chlmneys OF their factories
their Iaborers walking the streets in idle
nass. and the public soup house estaD
lished in every large city in the land
and by their votes they are showing Mr.
KYLE and his associates that they are
o,so tired OF him ana his business de
s,roy,pg friends. He positively declared
that he was anxious to strike a blow a
ia American manufacturers, who ne
danonnced in bitter terms as dishones'
robbers and producers Of shoddy goods
II is but fair to state that not even 'hs
most servile populist present aPplaudec
this nnpatriotic declaration. lie an
nouuced himself an out and-out Ires
trader. declaring that il was his natura
right to buy where he could buy thu
cheapest, and sell where he could sci
The dearest; and no government had tllt
noht to interfere with him. tie declar
al .he Walker free trade tariff to hav'
haen the best ever formulated, and t.
snnport his assertion he deliberatel.
misouoted James G.. Blame as authority
by reading only portion OF his word
and leaving out he sentence that quaIi
fes them. When Kyle resorted to thl
trick lie inaulted the intelligence OF hi