The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1896-09-18
DISAPPOINTMENT
People Who FloCked to Hear the Won
derful Senator Allen Of Nebraska
Were Not Pleased.
His Speech Was Made up Of Biased State.
mentS and appeals to the Baser
Side Of Ones Nature.
DEATH OF AN EDITOR
4. N. Burns, Of the Mt. Vernon News
Died From a Three Weeks Sick
ness Of Typhoid Fever.
SENATOR ALIENS EXPLOITATION.

IOlN aLlIllN AL
He Expounds Free Silver, Not Very Sat
isfactory Even to It's Believers.
When Senator Allen of Nebraska
was announced to deliyer an address in
this city it was presumed that his pres
ence would be the means of wiping
away the mists which has presumably
clouded the vision of the intelligent
man, but the senator has come and
gone and he has left the people pretty
much in the same condition.
The Juvenile band was out on the
street and attracted the crowd to the
corn palace, Thursday evening, which
contained very large audience when
Everett Smith, who presided over the
meeting, introduced Senator Allen to
the audience in some remarks appro-
pirate to the occasion. The senator was
not in very good voice owing to hoarse-
ness contracted by 90 much speaking
during the campaign. The gentleman
presents very digni6ed appearance
and his delivery under different cir
cumstances would have been quite i'm
pressive. The senator was proud to
come to South Dakota, because it was
the home of two of his most distin-
guished colleagues, Senators Pettigrew
and Kyle, but there were some things
he didn't like about Pettigrew although
he was sound on the money question.
He urged that the populistsshould send
Kyle back to the senate and this was
received with some applause, but as
Mr.. Loucks is making different ar
rangements for that impossibility Kyle
will not be the man.
The tariff question was the first to
engage the attention of the senator and
although he maintained it was not an
issue, yet he devoted an hour in an at.
tempt to bring it into disrepute. he
arrayed the Mckinley bill and Will
son bill along side of each other and
declared there was only difference O.
10 cents between the two measures
leaving his hearers to infer that il
made no difference how the duties
!. we're apportioned and did not mentor
: which articles were on the free list
l and which were accorded high rates O
I duty and which were made low. He die
i not mention for the benefit of his far
mer hearers the effect OF the Wilson
3 bill on wool on which the tariff was re
1 moved. In the years of 1891 and 1S9,
the imports of wool amounted to onl!
/ 1894 ,4S0 pounds which was valued q
s37 ,919, ,4SO. Under the Wilson bill il
IS 1895 and 1896 the imports of WOO
q amounted to 436, 6,S73,363 pounds, whicl
l. was valued at s5S, ,024 ,oo5, and yet tn
T. senator had the effrontery to say ther
4 was nothing in the tariff when here
9 an absolute loss to the farmers of thi
g country of $40, 100000 a year on woo
q alone. Evety populist orator de
u nounces the Liverpool machine whic
u makes the price of wheat so low, bu
10 Senator Allen kicks that argr
y ment over and declares ths
~ with the restoration Of silver whes
will be worth dollar a bushel. Thes
y populist orators should get together o
rs the proposition OF what makes wheat S
RS low. After exhausting his vocabular
S. on the tariff, which amounted to notl
0. ing" in his opinion, the senator turne
et his attention to the money questio,
IN and here is where we presumed th
is senator would shine resplendent, bl
st we are prone to confess that his arg,
h ments lacked the essential to carry col
IL viction to the mind of the doubter. 3
a. averred that free silver would be th
e. means of restoring prosperity to pc,
is pie who had experienced a siege
ly hard times, would cause an appreci