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Mfr. Haryey's success has surpassed MS
dreams or the weirdness of an arabian
Yale, as at a bound the blue-eyed son On OF
i Virginia granger has abandoned a. q law law
practice of doubtful value TO be the head
Of his own publishing house ana the
fount Of editorial. wisdom in q dozen
states. ,s%st M 3,
MIR. Harvey is 81 plain. everyday man man
lis fame has not added any trllls. Inc ne
fact that people have bought his IDEAS .s
~ the hundred thousand has doubled his rs
determination to. fight in the financial
controversy SO long as ho can nnd Zoe.
He declares the money which has come
to him shall stand as the pubic fund,!
Contributed by the readers who beileve
he is right, and for their benefit every
cent shall be spent in the warfare. MT.
Harvey looks one squaTely In the race
as he makes this strong statement, and
should there be the smallest JOB OF dis
honesty and insancerity in it. there is
Tot the slightest evidences Of 1t on the
surface.
He swears by all his shrines that the
campaign forasilver has no glory to MIN
as q means of personal aggrandizement
or pecuniary reward, but that his Whote
heart and life has gone into the work
in the interests of the people against
the tyranny Of the piutocrats. So much
as the enormous receipts for his SIX
books on money may bring, sc much ne
promises is the peoples, to carry thelf
cause into the enemy's lines and to win
victory froln those who have no hearti
for the rank and file Of men.
This man, whose hobby is silver, has
always been the champion Of the work.
ing classes. His early life was passed
among them He was born on farm,
taught lis letters in a log school house,
and passed his early boyhood days In
marking plowed ground for the corn
rows and billing the young potatoe vines.
This was d season Of hard work. He de-
lights in calling attention to it TO prove
to the doubtful ones that when he poses
AZ friend Of the people who labor they
may know he has reason to heed t1escry
of the lowly. He knows the sting zof
long hours and hard toll, and while the.
charge of demagogy has been laid at the
cause, MIR Harvey remember that he
has ESCAPED an attack on the ground Of
his sincerity. <
He was born In August, 1851, near
Charleston. w. Va His father was u:
Wirginian, with an ancestry back In
Scotland and Ireland. His mother was
Of Irish descent, and her maiden name,
was given him. The early years of his:
,ite wers no more exciting or. invigoraJ~
Ing than the prosaic seasons on the farm.
He read all the books his fathers IL
brary possessed, was greedy for more,
and as soon as his savings were SUI
ncient, he entered country academy
near his home. This opened the field OF
the village schoolnaster, and the pres
ent makeup of the man Of mature years;
shows no imprint so strongly as that.
made by the manners and methods ne
grew accustomed to at that age So
4 Ife was then l6, and to spend an hour
with him ,noW Is to bring. an inevitable
conclusion that the leader Of the Coin
c,,le is a nervous hoolmaster suddenly
caught in a wave OF popularity, which
has raised him into position envied by J,
thousands and: usually the reward OF a.
lifetime. 1t. was this experience that
suggested the so-called School features
OF his financial treatise. . y .5@s-z
firing Of the narE0wness of the school
.roon,, he moved to Ohio and began the.
study Of laW. This he continued for
some time, changing again his work into
the field Of commerce. He ,rnet~i Cal
liopolis Miss Anna r. Halliday one of
tie nst fortunate incidents in his Slife.3
They were married IN 1875, and now four
children, two boys and two girls, COM
prise 'tCoin's" family schools The ex-s
perienees In Ohio were successful in all
swavs, and when he had earned a fair;
competency he went to Denver. His
shingle bore the sign Of real ESTATE and
lawyer and realizing on his investments
Ut . time when silver was booming, he
found himself fairly rich. He was them
only 40 years old. His natural sshrewds e
1855 huahanded this money wisely and
1t was about this time he openly declar-f;
ed war against what he styles the great
est danger of the country, the gradual,
but sure establi shment Of a plutocracy.'s
He abandoned his business for g. season
of travelling and study, delving into prob
lens which concerned especially the
silver states. C01orado, Utah and Cali
fornia attracted him and no conference
on money was too distantstp attract him:
Men were vague in their theories and the
field seemed open for a great worn. ne h !
s Chica2o natural " offered the best ad-s
vantage. Mr.. Harvey. brought his
family here, and for two or three years.
the vigorous man was not conspicuous
His office In the Montauk Bnilafng was
81 hack room, and. the ,elevatorfman took:
fewer people to him than to- any other
tenant. Il hs Test. 81 ishnent be papeT