The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-05-14
Mr. Harvey. Alias .Coin.,

There appears TO be a disposition on
the part of some of the free silver advo-
Gates to apotheosize Mr.. Harvey, the au-
thor Of Coins Financial School" For
the purpose Of lifting him above ordinary
mortals, he is shown in the light Of hav-
ing been poor man, denied the privileges
|. Of an education in his youth. but withal
person Of such transcendant genius that
by sheer force of brain power he has lift
ed himself to the greatest eminence. To
play upon a prejudice, it has been alleged
that he Is a southern man, and fought
in the war for the confederacy. Here is
the way one of the Harveyites touches
upon his poverty and his affiliations dur
ing the war: only two years ago Mr..
w. II. Harvey was poor man editing a
little weekly in Chicago, and hardly able
to make both ends meet. A southerner
and an ex-confederate. it was a difficult
matter for him to make his way without
capital and influence"
We do not know anything about Mr..
Harvey or his career. 1t may be that
he is an ex-cOnfederate soldier, and was
struggling editor two years ago. and all
that. But here is a summary of certain
facts told by Mr. Harvey himself to a cor
respondent of the st. Louis Post Dispatch,
who visited him at his office in Chicago
one day recently: He was born in West
Virginia in 1851, which made him years
old when Fort Sumter was fired upon and
fourteen years old when Grant and Lee
met at the Mclean house at Appomattox.
He did not mention to the Post-Dispatch
man that he had taken up arms in defense
of the confederacy, contrary to the spirit
of his native state. At the age of 16 he
taught school in West Virginia and stu
died law Later he continued the study
of law in an office, and must have be-
come a pretty capable disciple of Coke
and Blackstone, for he told the Post-Dis-
patch man that he won moderate COM
Potency at the practice OF law. Then he
went out west and invested his money in
real estate at Denver Upon these invest
ments. says his interviewer. "he realized
in cash at the right time so that at about
the age of 40-he is now 43-he was well
off" He has never lost any of the mod
est little competency thus acquired" adds
the interviewer. being a practical and
coolheaded man."
So much for the poor, struggling ex-
confederate editor of an obscure little
weekly paper two years ago. according to
the representative of a paper that is
| friendly to Harvey and his cause 1t
really ought not to detract from the repu-
tation of the book that the writer was
land speculator in Denver, that he took
his profits in cash at the right time" and
| became well off, before he ever went to
writing cheap money literature, to catch
| quarters; but the people who have
weakness for Harveyism have also very
unkind feelings toward land spectators.
! They have also a firmly grounded objec,
tion to anybody except themselves enjoy
| ing prosperity, hence it will he likely to
hurt Mr.. Harvey's reputation with them
when it becomes known that he has now
an income of 500 to $1,000 a day, and sits
in an office made luxurious with costly
carpets and rugs.
A rather peculiar fact in connection with
! Coin" and his book is that man named
Waterloo, who helped Mr.. Harvey write
his financial school" book. is now at
work upon book to controvert all of Mr..
Harvey's statements. If Mr. Waterloo's
book should prove a go he and Mr.
Harvey would probably have a good time
together recounting how they did it,"