Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1895-08-01

time had cost the producer two dollars an
ounce was secuted by Mr.. Horn. II the mine
owners had been producing silver at this cost
and selling it, as they had been doing. at from
sI20 to S.57 an ounce, they had lost by the
transaction during the past three years some
1926 600 900
The next point OF attack was the statement
Of page So Of Harvey's book that the people Of
this country are annually paying to England
500, 600 In interest on national and private
bonds Mr.. Horn denied this proposition fat
~, and challenged anyone to produce evidence
that the Indebtedness Of the people OF this
country to all the nations OF Europe involved
anything like such an amount OF interest.
Harvey then took his opponent to task for
skipping about the book TO find substance for
his remarks instead Of combining himself to the
regular order Of proceedings as agreed upon.
and said that he would not be diverted from
his original plan by such tactics.
Mr.. Horr-The answer In your book of hodge,
podge and errors that the government can
create o demand for commodity" has mtsled
thousands Of honest and unthinking people.
My friend here. DR.. Robinson. says it is
using seeming truth to lie with
which Is the most crafty and dangerous
kind of false statement. You used
an illustration to teach that free coinage
would create an unlimited demand for silver
and increase its value In the markets OF the
world. Under such coinage you advocate sill
YER would be received by the government.
coined, and then. In effect returned 10 she
owner again He might not get the same dol-
lars coined from the identical silver which he
took to the mint, but he would get those
coined from silver received and treated
precisely as his was. Your illustra-
ton OF the government buying 100000
horses is fraud on It's face, that is all You
say the average price OF wheat in 1891 was IS
cents. The Statistical Abstract gives the
81 ~ .ron
price in Chicago in 1891 was 81 cents. II you
are teaching the people the truth explain this
discrepancy.
Mr. Harvey-Mr Horr will male nothing by
abusing or ridiculing me. The intelligence Of
the American people demand something high
er than that MIR Horr should have thought
OF how the government Axes the price on gold
We ask the same thing for silver, that's all
When we get to the wheat table will satisfy
Mr.. Horr that it is right. as he has already
been satisfied OF everything we have touched.
Mr. Harvey then entered into IN argument
on what he regarded as scientific bimetallism,
advocating the option of the debtor to pay in
either metal as vital principle, the most I'm.
portant essential in the success of bimetal-
lism, preventing corners on either metal oil.
ways increasing the demand for the cheaper
metal and thereby restoring it to parity II
there should be break. To give the option to
the creditor would cause the bearer metal to
be used and parity would be permanently
broken, the gap growing wider all the
time. With silver discarded as 1t Is now
we must go to the men who own the
gold to get 1t and submit to their terms A
corner on gold could not, as it docs now
threaten the credit OF this nation IL silver was
in competition with gold as primary money.
II We used the $500 COZ, COO OF silver now In the
treasury there would be no borrowing of gold.
Mr.. Horr-Mr Harvey on Monday called at
tention to the great increase OF farm tenancy
in the United States since 1880. making that
one Of the points OF his book to prove that the
county is going to the dogs It Is
mine. He calls this increase evil
and I call it good Mr. Harvey sees in ten
ancy, as 1t Is in the United States, the rising
OF men by hundreds of thousands, from low to
q high condition He calls that national
calamity. Is it: do not so regard it II
you would show the people that this
increase in tenancy had been at the
expense OF farm owners you would have
made point, but that is not the truth IN
doubtedly in Massachusetts men have left
their lands in the hands OF tenants, but they
have gone to the west, They make up the
best people in the western country. Persons
who have graduated from the farms of New
England have helped to build up this great
country OF ours in the west. They are the
sinews OF this nation.
Mr.. HaPvey-By the rules OF this debate Mr..
Horr had no right to go to that tenant subject
now Its logical place In the debate Is else
where. The statement he has Just made,
promise to show at the proper time. will APP
pear plainly unfair and inconsistent with the
facts. Primary money Is the measure OF
values Gold (our present primary money! 10
now the measure of values. Mr.. Horr and ]
agree as to that. Silver and gold working to.
gether, virtually as one metal. were formerly