The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1895-08-14
SUMMED UP.
HOrr and Harvey Put the Finishing
Touches on Their Debate.


Touches on Their Debate.
Copyright. 1895, by Azel F. Hatch
CHICAGO, Aug SIN accordance with the
| agreement entered into by the silver and gold
debaters. Messrs. Harvey and Horr, governing
their recent contest in this city, each was to
prepare recapitulation of the points made in
| their respective arguments. not exceeding
| $500 words each, and to complete the same
within a week from the close of the contest
This has been done. and in substance the sum.
| mary of Rosw G. Horn is as follows:
Mr.. Horr's Claims.
| Mr. Harvey admits that the book Is pure
| fiction He repudates its motto by declaring
| that it does not mean what it says. His state
| ment that primary money only is the measure
Of value he has even attempted to
| sustained, though his proof has been called for
repeatedly Mr.. Harvey next based his case
was crime. and stated that it had
Its origin in fraud and its birth through
bribery and corruption He introduced
no evidence in support of either proposition.
and he stands convicted of making every one
Of these charges without any proof that would
be received in any court of Justice BE stands
convicted by his own statements OF an effort
to deceive the people Mr. Harvey's state
ment that free coinage creates un-
limited demand is not true, because there
can be an unlimited demand for no human
productions Mr. Harvey fails entirely to
prove that the use of one metal as the meas
ure of value is an experiment He utterly
failed to show fail in the price of single
article which is not fully accounted
for by cheaper cost of production.
improved transportation or increased
supply. He inadvertently admitted the
great value of banking facilities which was
an entire give away of his whole rant and
fustian against banks. He misled people by
partial statements which led to false conclu-
sions when the whole statement would have
been perfectly clear to any one. The civilized
world is clearly on my side OF this issue
Mr.. Harvey's Summary.
Mr. Harvey, in summarizing the debate,
says: 1T settled the proposition that gold and
silver are the money of the constitution. Mr.
Horr did not controvert this The silver dol
lar was the unit of value in our coinage sys-
tenn fixed by the act Of 1872 Nj Horn ad-
mits this. Silver and gold were the meass
ure of value OF all other property until 1873 and
the debtor had right to pay in either
metal The act of 1873 was surreptitiously
passed. 1 have made good all the PROPOSE
passed. For all time of which we have any
knowledge gold and silver were treated equal
ly as money until 1916. when England closed
her minis to silver, and 1874, when the
United States, Germany, France and the
Latin nations followed suit. The prices of all
property are now measured in gold alone. and
are substanti ally one-half what they would be
under the bimetallic system. Mr.. Horn fire.
Quently in debate substantially makes this
admission hive made good all the PROPOSE
tions set forth in my opening statement Mr.
Horr found no errors in my book except
the statement that the silver coined
prior to 1873 was sl05, 600 900 instead
Of SAB O0O,O0Ol If Mr. Horr had followed
me In the logical arrangement of the debate as
indicated by the book we were discussing l
would have been able to furnish data more
fully iustifying points in the School at
tackled by him. The first object in the way Of
this financial subject is selfshness. Mr.. Horn
shows that he does not yet know what bimet-
alliSm is -
Mr. Horr. il his reioiuder, said his opponent
took two days to discuss a crime which never
existed, and had time to defend many
errors in his book repeatedly pointed
out and which he promised to explain
later. He now tells what wonders he would
have done had he not been driven from
his essays, which he calls his regular order -
In his summary he goes olt OF his way to viii
lily the supreme court, the only honorable
body In the United States which he had not
slandered in his part OF the debate.
Nowhere has he shown the advisa-
bility of this nation freely coming sill
yer at 16 to l, nor can he do it His
summary. like his debate, attempts to dispar-
age. honest industry, thrift and solvency.
Mr. Harvey in reply. declared he made no
statement as to the condition of the pei ple of
the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries reading
only statement from the report of the nom
tary commission of 1876 to show what the
preface in the School was quoted from Mr..
which presented the crime of 1871 Ibid not
q inn hat woe