The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-08-15
SUMMARIZED.
The Horr-Harvey Debate Summed Up by
 the Disputants.

! NHAS Seay ." " -~ follows: |
 Mir. Horr said: The object of this de- bate was to determine if it would be wise for our nation to throw open its hints to the free coinage of silver at the ratio of i6 to l, when the civilized nations of the world refuse to join in such action. My opponent proposed to prove that such course is advisable, and undertook to do it on the lines laid down in "Coin's Financial School" 1" He based his whole argument on the proposition that the silver dollar was in 1792 made the on- ly unit or measure of value. ] have shown conclusively that our fore fathers attempted to establish bimet- allism and provided for two units of value, one of gold and one of silver, al- ways naming gold first, and that up to 1884 the silver standard alone was used. That afterward, the gold standard came into use, and since that the sil- yer dollar has never for a day been used as the measure of values in the United States.
 Mir. Harvey next based his case upon the assumption that the law of 1873 was a crime, and stated that it had its ori- gin in fraud and its birth through bribery, and corruption. He placed himself upon four propositions to prove his case:
 First-He claimed that the congress of the United States was purchased; that the passage of the bill was pro. cured by the money of capitalists of this and other nations.
 Secondly He stated that the bill passed both houses all right, and was changed by some clerk in its enroll ment He next claimed that it was not changed by clerk, but that the dirty work was done in conference committee.
 He then showed that none of his other statements is true, but that the work was done by passing ''substi- ute bill"
 He introduced no evidence in sup port of either proposition, and he stands convicted of making every one of these charges without any proof that would be received in any ordinary court of justice.
 Mir. Harvey's statement that free coinage creates unlimited demand" is not true, because there can be an unlimited demand for no human pro- auctions.
 The other doctrine of Mir. Harvey is that the free coinage of silver in this country upon the old ratio of Is to l, the old price of silver as compared with gold, will be restored.
 Mir. Harvey virtually admits that the action which he proposes will put this nation on silver basis and drive gold out of this country.
 MIR. HARvEY's SUMMARY.
 Mir Harvey said: The debate settles, in my judgment, the following propo- sitions:
 First-That gold and silver is the money of the constitution.
 Second-That the silver dollar was the unit of value in our coinage sys- tenn fixed by the act of l792.
 Third-That silver and gold both were the measures of value of all otheT property till 1873 and the debtor had right to pay in either metal
 Fourth-That the act of 1873 was surreptitiously passed
 Fifth-That for all time of which we have knowledge gold and silver were treated equally as money; both had a right to enter the hints in all the countries of the world until 1916, when England closed her hints to sil- yer, and lS73-4, when the United States, Germany, France and the Latin union | followed, and until ls73-4 the commer- cial value of the two metals were sub- stantially at parity with the Legal ratio.
 Sixth-That prices of all property are now measured in gold alone, and are substantially at the present time one-half what they would be under the bimetallie system. MT. Horr frequent. ly in debate substantially makes this 
 Seventh-That there were S143, ,OOo 900 in silver coined at our hints prior to 1873, all of which coined prior to 1853 was primary money, and since 1854 the silver dollars were primary money, and by virtue of the right of silver to be coined into primary money through the medium of silver dollars, the whole volume of the silver supply was behind our monetary system, was eXerting its influence as a measure of value, and stood ready to be coined and to share equally with gold the demand for 
 Eighth believe those who read and carefully digest the debate will conclude that have made good all the set fourth in lay opening statement.
 In the few words left to- me I want to say that if the world, time out oi mind, has had business panics and most mems and womens lives have been full of trouble in acquiring the necessities and comforts oi II life, that our present civilization has not removed the possibility of these recurring panics, and that to largs majority of the people on this earth their almost exclusive attention and labors are given to, acquiring a living with, in most instances, indifferent and diScOu rapinr reSeltS will he ad l