The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-24

given the subject the amount Of study
that it has received at the hands of Euro
pean gentlemen, if perhaps l except my
friend Warner and Brother Harvey.
ut is a question, as I stated before,
that is a complicated one, and usually it
has been decided by a few men who have
studied the problem laboriously, and if
anybody will read the reports of the con-
federate congress Of the United States
the one that came Immediately after the
colonial congress-if they will read the
history of those times they will find that
all the men who even assumed to be able
to discuss the matter intelligently could
be counted on the fingers of my two
hands.
Mr.. Harvey-Mr. Horn says that have
no proof that the scheme was concocted
in London to demonetize silver in the
United States. When 1 was boy 1 went
into a court house one day to hear a
criminal trial, and I heard a lawyer say
when crime is committed and you
want to detect the criminal, look for the
man that is benefited by the crime" Gap
plauseo Reasoning by induction will
more invariably locate the criminal than
any uncertain human testimony. Silver
was demonetized in England, and in Eng
| land only, prior to the day it was demone
tiZed in this country. That was where
the movement Started-that is another
evidence. London bankers initiated the
Paris conference in 1867, at which Mr.
John Sherman was present, therefore
have the right to say the conspiracy
originated in London.
MIR. Horn asys that the science of mon
ey is hard to understand. Ever since the
money lenders of the world shackled the
people Of the world they have taught
the people of the world that money was
| hard to understand (applause); that it is
one of those difficult things, as Mr.. Horr
once said in his speech, 1T gives me a
headache tO think n nj
you are not competent to study it or I'M
derstand it, and as long as they can make
you believe that they have you in their
power, as this debate later will disclose
You who study chemistry and can under
stand the most difficult problems Of
science, chemistry and other sciences
that would make a bankers head dizzy
to contemplate; you, we are told, cannot
understand the simple proposition of
money that which you come into the use
of every day. Mr.. Horr has only taught
in this debate a proposition that it is
the interest of every selfish money-lender
in the world to advocate, and he is here
advocating it. (Applause)
I'm 1873, when this treacherOus act was
passed, there was no specie currency in
this country. During all the years from
| 1892 to 1861, when it was actually in use
and being tested for it's merit, no enc pro-
posed to demonetize either Of the metals
except some mOney-lenderS from Europe
| who proposed it in 1854. (Applause.) But
at that time, 1873, when it was not in cir
culation and was not needed, the move
ment was begun and contaminated. And
as one congressman said when the bill
was offered in congress: We are not u.s.
| ing gold and silver as money, have not
yet considered an act for the resumption
| of specie payment, and the Introduction
Of this bill at the present time either
means trick or is a farce worthy of be-
ing caricatllred by Thomas Mast and vot
! Mr.. Horn goes back and argues a change
| made in 1884 to show you why congress
was solicitous about this matter at tine
! time when we were not using gold and
silver at all.
Il again caution the reader that all
discussions by Mr.. Horr of ratios, as he
| threw in few moments ago, belongs in
| the second chapter of Coins Financial
School, and when we get thereto it will
be time enough to argue it, and when we
! do it will not be such an abstruse science
as to give a man a headache to under
stand it, (Applause)
(The account of yesterdays debate will be
found on the Eighth Page.)