The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1895-07-26
H0RR- HARVEY
SILVER DEBATE
AT CHICAGO. SPICY SALLIES.
The Disputers Go Back to the Middle
Ages. Personalities InduIged In.
Great Financial Cock Fight.

The first days session of the noted
Horr- Harvey Silver-Gold debate at
Chicago opened ou Wednesday last.
The proceeding of the first day were
of n routine and uninteresting nature.
The second days session was
held in the auditorium of the
Illinois club before very linn
tied audience. Mr.. Horr began by
quoting Hallam's middle Ages" as
authority to prove the fallacity OF Mr.
Harvey's statements in his book re-
garding the degeneracy of the world
mmercially in the fifteenth century
as Il result of the depreciation Of silver.
He cited from Prof. james A. Thorold
Rogers, 10 rcfute the statements made
b. MIR Harvey from his book that
the price of wheat had fallen in that
period and that the lot Of toiiing masses
became more miserable with the pas
sage from the eighth to the fifteenth
century as charged by Mr.. Harvey.
Lebcr, Malthus and Hynman were
also cited in the contradiction of the
silver champions fifteenth century
statements. He concluded: "Mr. Har-
vey and his free silver friends identify
prosperity and the progress of man
with the lot of the feudal nobility of
Europe and not with that Of the toilerS.
Later | shall show that in his treat
ment of the present as of the past, Mr..
Harvey stands as the exponent of the
rich and not of the toilers, whose well
,are should first be considered by the
legislation of the State
MIR. Harvey replied that he volun-
teered to explain the preface TO his
book. because gold standard papers all
over the country and his friends from
New York and elsewhere had declared
that it was a forgery and he did not in
tend to argue with Mr.. Horr that the
monetary commission, from the report
OF which the quotation was made, did
not know what it was talking about.
He declined to have his mind diverted
from the regular argument and logi-
cal arrangement of the debate.
He declared that the debate SO
far had settled the questions as to what
was the money of the constitution, what
was the unit of value as fixed by the
trainers Of the constitution in favor Of
his book. The keynote he wanted to
sound was that there was no good rea
son for debasing one of the metals when
gold and silver had been honest money
for Centuries, when Mnder free coinage
laws and equal treatment both had
equal purchasing power in their own
right and when population and the de-
ing every year.
Mr.. Horr. to "clinch the business"
which he declared his opponent had in
Iroduced read from Prof. George Gun.
tons Wealth and Progress" to show
there was rise instead Of a fall in the
price Of wheat in the fifteenth century
ana corresponding increase in the
early part of the sixteenth century.
The prices he quoted per quarter show
ed that wheat had been steadily ad
vancing instead of falling as claimed by
his opponent He resented Mr.. Har-
vey's severe criticism OF Judge Vim
cent for deciding in his remarks
Yesterday the question whether the
trainers Of the bill of 1892 intended to
establish two measures Of value. He
had noticed that when men GOT bitten
with either of the fiat money craze or
the free silver craze, they instantly be-
came egotistical and abusive Of every
one who differed from them. Judge
Vincent had decided the question as
submitted to him by individuals as he
honestly believed was right, and it was
right, but Mr.. Harvey had called him
dishonest
The controversy wakes hot occasion
ally. Tonight Mr.. Harvey asserted
that Mr.. Horr did not know any more
about bi. metallism than IA babe.
He introduced "A discussion of the de-
monetiZation Of silver and the crime
of 1878. He accused Senator Sherman
Of being the arch -conSprato: and the
European financier.
The third days proceedings were
marked by considerable acrimony
on the part of both speakers.
In beginning Mr.. Horr said he
had personal explanation to make.
He quoted the following paragraph
from his opponents argument of yes
terday
These principles are for the selfish
interests money-lenders and Mr.. Horr is
here advocating them" Mr.. Horr said
he took this as a reflection on his char
acter He continued;
II am not a money lender. | have
no interest in any bank or other insti-
tuition of like character. | was raised
on farm and my first work was done
for $40 month. fused to dig bitches
for a living and was at one time a
breakman on railroad. When | was
elevated to the position of baggage
master, it was the proudest moment Of
my life. | therefore come into this
debate, as my friend will find out be-
fore he gets through. to advocate the
principles which will be for the best in
tcrests Of the working classes from
which ] como. desire to say, how