Capt. Allen Didn't Come

The announcement that Congressm&n Allen would speak, nnited with the dulcet strains of the Fifth word band (oolored), brought a large crowd to the rink, Monday eveoiog. Cras. E. Hiscock presided and explained that Capt. Allen had been ergaged that afternoon in a joint discussion with Willard Stearns, of Adrián, and was unable to reach Ann Arbor in time for the evening meeting. He had requested A. .1. Sawyer to address the meeting. Mr. Sawyer said that till within 15 mir:u'.es he had expected fimply to introduce our next congressman (with an emphasis on next congressman that set the audience wild.) He continued : "Wben the war closed we had the largest debt of any government in the world. Our finances were not only embarrassed, but we had floated nway from the monetary standard of the world. The most energetic of our people hai been taken from every walk in life, and many thousands had laid down their lives. We had lost not only men, but almost the taste for labor. The wisdom of the land had, however, framed a set of laws, and we found our i dustries springing up. Nothing liko our industrial growth made under those laws, - spontaneous growth, - has been known in eny period of history. Four years ago the people consented to n chanpe of party in the government, so that the books might be examined, little dreaming that there would be an attack on their industrial gystem. The books were looked over, with the well-known result of the ore cent. But it has developed into an attack on our life-giving protective system. What would we think if we were to see our friend Jacobs some morning demolishing his house, knocking in the doors and windows, and tearing off the roof. We would cali him crazy ; and yet when we see a party trying to destroy that beautiful edifice of protection under which we have had such prosperity and happinegs, we cali them Democrats. M-, Sawyer had jait read President Cleveland's letter. He acknowledged that the president was a man of large ability. But he ought to have produced a letter of greater power. One half oí' it is devoted to the surplus. If President C'.evehnd had asked for a law whereby the surplus could have been used in paying the public debt, it would have gone flying through congress with Republican aid. But he doesn't do this. He offers no remedy for the surplus. Mr. Sawyer thought that the Democratie adininistration might have reduced the surplus by refunding to Republican postmastersvarioussunasucjustlyextortedfrom theoi. When his partner, J. C. Knowlton, was postmaster in Anu Arbor, the postoffice department obliged him to purchase some furniture. When the postoffice was turned over to Mr. Duffy, the po3toffice department made Mr. Kcowlton pay for the i'urniture. Probubly the eame thing was done with other Repubücan postmasters. The speaker then entered upon an exhaustive disoussion in deiense of the high protective system, in which its influence in inereasing production, cheapening the cost of production, and raisinc wages, were forcibly presented. The audience frequently responded with yells of delight.