The advocate., 1895-07-24


that whenever l am laboring for a person or
corporation am good deal more anxious
to earn all or more than get than am to
be worrying round about crowding up my
wages. My experience has been that If /
do good work they will recognize my mer-
its and pay me for 1t, and that is all
have any right to ask for in this world"
Proceeding and concluding HOrr said he
had no prejudices against men who had
been more fortunate than he; a man did
not necessarily become a scoundrel because
ne saved part of his earnings; he did not
think 1t anything against man even II ne
became a stockholder in a national bank.
A suggestion that Harvey's father was
such a stockholder brought from Harvey
an emphatic denial, with the admission
that 1t would not have hurt him IL he had
been. Horr closed by saying that those
who accumulate money and build up great
industries are a blessing to the country
and he was just as Jealous to prevent tinan-
cial disaster to those as to see that wages
are not cut in two by debased dollar.
Harvey in reply said his remarks Of the
day before quoted by Horr had no personal
application at all. man could advocate
a pernicious principle without himself be-
ing necessarily a bad man. Said Harvey,
continuing: This great question is not
going to be decided for the American peO-
pie by any advocate parading himself be-
fore them as having been horny listed
working man at one time in his life. do
not object to Mr.. Horr giving the evolution
Of his life. l do think 1t was a little un-
fair to have omitted that in that evolu-
tion he finally became bank president;
that statement should have gone with the
balance in the play to popular favor. / do
not deny that Mr.. Horr and numerous self
ish bank presidents have at one time been
tillers of the soil.
"Mr. HOrr and numerous employees OF
newspaper corporations and other corpora
tions are in part, many OF them, represent
ing their honest convictions, and accord
that to the honorable gentleman from New
York. Many Of them never stop to ana
lyze the question, the great principle that
must make or unmake the republic in
which they live. 1t is only a question Of
salary that they consider" Harvey then
said the value Of the debate Of the day
previous was that It had demonstrated the
statement that there were only 5000, 900
in silver coined up to 1873 to be false, and
that the real quantity was $143,OOO, 900.
Horr, replying to Harvey's criticism that
he had not included having been bank
president, said 1t was not omitted because
he was ashamed Of it. He had been a bank
hn hnu no av, INa
crash of 1873, and his competency went
with It. After q few more words regard
ing his present history he took up the de-
monetlzation act Of 1873, saying: "That
bill first originated little before the year
1870. 1t was drafted after consulting
large number OF experts. In the first day
Of our discussion Brother Harvey went
back on his baby theory, and told us that
babes did not mean babes at all, that it
meant pure and undefiled people, but now
he returns to his old motto and claims that
money really is so simple a thing that
babes can understand 1t, or that people
who have not studied 1t can learn all about
IT, and he Is facetlous because l have
stated that the question has given me the
headache. did state that. But, mark you,
Brother Harvey, 1t was the study Of the
question that made my head ache, not writ
ing such stuff as is In this book That
would not give any man the headache.
Now, this bill was prepared after sub
mitting the question to large number Of
experts all oysr the United States. We had
never had a revision Of the mint laws for
a great number OF years, and the men In
charge Of the mint thought that the time
had come when something should be done.
Among the men who we're consulted upon
the question were Mr.. Boutwell,, the secre-
tary Of the treasury; Mr.. Knox, deputy con-
trollsr Of the currency; Mr. Linderman,
the dirNot0P oe the mintJ Mp. PaEaonR,