The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-07-17

CHICAGO, July 16-No such big
talk" has ever been planned before, ii
is claimed, as the ten-day go-as-you-
please match between the chosen rep
resentatives of the opposing sides on
the money question, Roswell G. Horn
and William H. Harvey, which open
ed today.
1t was about . p. m. when The witty
ex-Congressman from Michigan, now
a resident of New York, and the sharp
/ Colorado newspaper man, now a resi-
dent of Chicago, signitied to the
/ judges and the select audience pres
ent by invitation at the Illinois club
on Ashland avenue that all was in
( readiness for the successive 10000
word broadsides that, with three
minute rests, were to last three hours
day for ten successive days. The
judges were Hon. H. G. Miller and
Judge A. W. Vincent.
Horn spoke first He said there was
hardly a proposition in Coins Fin
ancial Sshool' to which he could as
sent. He would attempt to prove that
the theory therein set forth, if adopt
ed by the people of this country,
would only lead to financial ruin.
Until an international agreement kad
been established, it would be simply
suicide for this nation to adopt a sys-
tenn of free coinage of silver upon the
old ratio. He believed the act of 1873,
which Harvey's book denounces as a
crime. was honestly conceived and
openly passed. What people needed
was good credit, good money, good
principles and sound business sense.
Harvey. in his opening statement,
named the propositions set forth in
Coins financial School," which he
expected ito make good in thus debate,
the chief of which is that it is to the
interest of the United States to act
Independently in the reconciliation
of silver at 16 TO 1.
The Debate Begins.
The debate proper began by Mr..
Horn asking his opponent to tell,
Plainly, if there was ever any such
school held as that he described in
the book Coins Financial School"
Mr. Horr said: Il find all through
the book a large number of state
ments attributed to a very consider
able number of business men of Chi
cago, and l am informed that those
single word attributed to them. If
the book is written as an alIegOry, l
would like my friend TO state why he
did not use, as all literary men have
always done, the names Of fictitious
Observation-Disclosures he intended 10
convey the impression that those
men were present and received the
castigation which he says he adj
ministered to them on the spot. The
l. IL Ge=1TIhnG
the crestfalIen manner in which some
of the gentlemen left the room after
being Worsted in this fearful manner.
daughter. l feel now what we want
to get at is the Tact about the book,
so that we will know how we are
proceeding
IS AlIegoricnI.
MIR. Harvey: The School is ale
gorical. 1t marshals the opinions Of
the two sides of this controversy, so
that one in imagination can see the
conflict of opinions and the contest as
it proceeds. 1t puts IN the mouths OF
the gold standard advocates their we'll
known views, fairly stated, with winch
the country had been flooded up to
the time School was written. The
strength of the book was intended to
be in, the fairness of stating these
views The fact that a little boy in
knee pants was the instructor of the
men was supposed to be sufficient to
fix the story as allegoricaL One read |
ing Aesop's Fables does not care
whether the animals talked or not. 1t
is the subject and the truths uttered
that give it in each instance its i'm /
portance II it is charged that actual !
characters are used in the book while /
similar books use fictitious characters, |
the answer is we'll known that the ut
teranees and the opinions of these |
men are used, and the further answer, /
that Shakespeare used actual charac-
ters."
Should study the Scriptures.
Mr. Horr: 81 submit that if my
friend had studied the scriptures a lit |
lie more closely when he was looking
for the motto which I shall take up |
next, he would have found 1t some
where stated that a man is not per-
nitted to bear false witness against
MS neighbor.
HE says he put. into their mouths
he words that they themselves would
nave uttered I have had that done
'or me so many times in my life THAI
know what it means. But now l
come to the motto of the book, which
5 this: I thank thee, o Father, Lord
# heaven and earth, because thou
last hid these things from the wise
md prudent and hast revealed them
o babes
Does my friend desire to intimate
hat the kind of finance which he
caches is something that babes will
but that people that know
lnything will never be able to COM
,rehend?' CApplause and laughter).
Horn Misinterprets.
Mr. Harvey: ''Mr. Horr misinterprets
mo MI -f7f that no ord
babe is intended to mean the pure of
mind and unselfish. 1t is in that sense
hat it is used in the Bible. and near
hat those pure of mind and unselfish
an see clearly those things which the
impure of mind cannot see or under
tand. (Applause). The cause rep
esent," Mr.. Harvey continued, sis pure
nd unselfish.'
Mr.. Horr:--ieatlame1 / merely
allied his attention To the use CT the
'assage of scripture which he has
lily explained by saying that the