The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1892-02-08
MONDAY. FEBRUARY s, 1892.
HON. MICHAEL d. HARTER.

The twaddle of the Hon. Michael
d. Harter, Democratic Congressman
from the 18th Ohio Congressional
District, delivered at the Reform Club
dinner in New York on the 10Th OF
January last, is the most puerlle
effusion against free coinage ever put
in print by the gold bug bureau. 1t
contains seven pages of printed matter
in pamphlet form and is circulated
throughout the country with the
avowed purpose of shaping the policy
of the national convention to be held
at Chicago against silver. From the
closest scrutiny we have been unable
to detect an idea in it that would be
creditable to Baltimore oyster. He
saws, under this head line: "The
Glasses Free Coinage Would De-
fraud"
"Do we not see that the real
creditor classes are the the mechanics,
the working people, the depositors in
savings banks, in short the
rank and file of the country. 1t is
proposed to the Democratic party to
turn these people over to the tender
mercies of the silver kings. Was
ever proposition so monstrous?"
He also asserts "that more silver
dollars have gone into circulation in
single month since it was demone-
tiled than in over 80 years before.
Ii this be so, the common sense of
even an Ohio wood rat would suggest
to Michael the propriety of advo-
eating free coinage as means of
stopping the increasing circulation of
this fraudulent dollar among these
debtor classes. At the dinner party
aforesaid Michael posed as a mining
expert withal and became most thrill
ingly eloquent. He said sit only
costs SO cents an ounce in the
United States to produce silver; 3714
grains are required to make stand
ard dollar Free coinage would give
dollar of your property or your labor
to the silver producer in exchange for
Al cents of his. Was ever such a
proposition made outside OF mad
house?" Well, my dear Michael,
out here in Humboldt county there
are now large number of Cinnamon
taking out gold from our placers at
the rate of eight dollars per day to
the man at cost of only one dollar
each. When you go to New York
again to get gold bug lunch say to
them in your after dinner speech:
1T only costs Cinnamon in the
black Republican State of Nevada
one hundred cents to produce eight
dollars of gold. Under the gold stand
ard theory and practice you give
dollar of your property and labor to
the heather Chinee' producer of gold
in exchange for Ia cents OF his" By
so doing you will not only have the
merit OF telling the truth, but you
may SO startle the gold bugs that
they will raise your wages as stump
orator lest you kick out of the
gold bug traces and they there
by loose Congressional Democratic
vote against silver. Michael, at said
dinner, assumed the role of prophet.
He prophesied, he, Michael, did, that
"the time will come, too, when the
United States will have to make its
"A cent dollar worth 100 cents" Yea,
verify, Michael, and that, too, very
soon by wiping out the fraud OF 1878;
by repeating the law that reduced the
silver dollar to "A cents and giving
the country and the creditor classes
free coinage. He, Michael, speaks of
the silver dollar as the debased dol
lar, Michael does. Why is it debased?
Simply because it was demonetized.
In one part of his maudlin harrangue