The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-10-18
THE Willy LoUCKs
He Pulls the Wool Over the Eyes Of the
Democrats and Wonderfully Enthuses
the Gullible Pops-A Slick
Trimmer.

The populist candidate for governor,
Judge Howe OF Sphinx county, and FL. L.
Loucks OF Huron, addressed a good audi
ence at the opera house last evening, Mr..
Howe talking for about five minutes and
Mr.. Loucks following for al hour and a
half. Mr.. Loucks is the only populist
in the state or in the nation, for that
matter, who il really worth hearing. He
has the faculty of taking the idiosyncra-
cies OF populist theories and clothing
them in a garb of apparent logic and re-
spectability which by it's very adroitness
and boldness carries his unsophisticated
hearers along with him. His statement
that imitation Of the currency would in
fate prices and vice versa is Rs true as
gospel, but n principle it affects the rel
tive value OF nothing except the pay
menG OF debts at the time OF the infla-
ton, and to be OF lasting benefit the in
fiatlon process would have to be repeat
cd every time people got in debt. But
there would have TO be o redeeming OF
these inflated promises TO pay sometime
and when IL came there would be o
crash or period of no values at al.
That Is all there is to Mr.. Loucks' great
money argument. The stringency OF
10 and following years was caused SIM
ply by trying to redeem the promises or
inflated currency rendered necessary by
the exigencies of the war. His discuss.
ion OF the tariff and defense OF Kyle, at
ter he Dragged about being brave
enough TO expose the wrong Of Kyles
vote on sugar at the time, was the
lamest argument we ever heard deliver
ed on the tariff question. He jumbled
the subject into o hotch-potch to con
fuse his hearers and then made asser-
tions as a conclusion entirely at vari-
ance with the facts. The republicans
do not claim that the tariff on sugar
will make q difference OF s40,OO0,O0O an
nually to the breakfast table, but that
the trust made that much In one swoop
on the passage OF the new trust tariff,
and democratic Wilson is proof OF the
assertion. Sugar did rise one cent and
was on the point OF rising another when
members of the trust we're arrested for
the crime OF influencing congressman,
when q deal was made that the rise
should not take effect until after cleo
tion. Then sugar will advance a cent
and a half or more, and the sAmerican
breakfast table be taxed S65, 100000 an
nually under the o law.
His Misrepresentation Of Senator Gal
fingers statement Of imports and exports
was equally misleading, bis mixing up
the financial transactions DC the nation
with foreign countries and giving the
totals ct the whole as il they were the
balances Of trade spoken of BY MT. Gal
linger. 30 he ingglsd also on the labor
question and the Immigration law. His
assailing d war measure passed When our
nation was inf dire extremity, every man
to the front and laborers needed TO run
factories, work mines, supply ~arsenals,
build Notifications, and Eli generally the
positions made vacant BY The boys who
were then bearing arms in the field and
Mr.. Loncks ID Canada sympathizIng
With bis English allies who we're farm
isfing munitions Of war against No, tb
aasail . bill, We say, to encourage imtni-
grafton in that trying time wblch, when
that time was over, has lain . dead letter
ever since, was not only unpatriotic 10
say the least, but an insult to every old
soldier in has presence and every man
who glories In the achievement Of the re-
publican party. No, Mr.. Loucks did
not turn any republican votes last night.
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Co.'S yard.
For rent-A seven room house with
sable. CIR KRNNEny