The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-05-22
WILLIAM H. HARVEY
6ome Facts About the Author Of COINS
Financial School,"
The Man With an Idea Achieves Fortune
and Reputation in
Day.


~ remarkable men of the day and it
comes from all manner of authority that
the ideas of "Coin" are more penetra-
ingly and infiuentially circulated in the
western rural world than the teachings
Of the Bible.
Mr.. Harvey's success has surpassed his
dreams of the wierdness of an Arabian
tale, as at bound the blue eyed son of
Virginia granger has abandoned law
practice of doubtful value to be the head
of his own publishing house and the
fount of editorial wisdom in a dozen
states.
Mr. Harvey is a plain everyday man.
His fame has not added any frills. The
fact that people have bought his ideas
by the hundred thousand has doubled
his determination to fight in the financial
controversy so long as he can find a foe.
He declares the money which has come
. to him shall stand as the public fund,
Ncontributed by the readers who believe
he is right, and for their benefit every
cent shall be spent in the warfare. Mr..
Harvey looks one squarely in the face
rs he makes this strange statement and
should there be the smallest job of dis
not the slightest evidence Of it on the
surface.
He swears by all his shrines that the
campaign of silver has no glory to him
rs a means of personal ACKNOWLEDGMENT
Or pecuniary reward but that his whole
heart and life has gone into the work in
the interests of the people against the
tyranny Of the plutocrats. So much as
on money may bring, s0 much he
promises Is the peoples to carry their
cause into the enemys lines and to win
victory from those who have no heart
Tor 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 a farm,
taught mis- letters in big schoolhouse,
RnG passed his early boyhood days in
arking plowed ground for the corn
|ws and killing the young potato vines.
his was season of hard work. He
flights in calling attention to it to
rove to the doubtful ones that when he
pses as a friend Of the people who labor
icy may know he has reason to heed
e cry Of the lowly. He knows the
sting of long hours and hard toll, and
while the charge of demagogy has been
laid at the door of many a leader of a
poor mans cause Mr.. Harvey remem-
bers 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 a
virginian, with an ancestry back in
Scotland and Ireland. His mother was
of Irish descent, and her maiden name
was given to him. The early years Of
his life were no more exciting or in
MIGRATING than the prosiac seasons on
the farm. He read all the books his
fathers library possessed was greedy for
y8Ure and as soon as his savings were
entered
near his home. This opened the field of
the village schoolmaster, and the pres
ent makeup of the man of mature years
shows no imprint so strongly as that
made by the manners and methods he
grew accustomed to at that age
He was then 49, and to spend an hour
with him now is to bring an inevitable
conclusion that the leader of the Coin
caught in a wave of popularity, which
has raised him into a position envied by
thousands and usually the reward of a
lifetime. 1t was this experience that sug-
gested the sO-caled school feature of
his financial treatises.
firing of the narrOwness of the school
room, 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 met at Gal
.-iiopolis Miss Anna r. Halliday, one of
the most fortunate incidents of his life.
They were married in 1876, and now four
children. two boys and two girls, COM
prise Coins" family school. The exper-
fences in Ohio were successful in all
ways, and when he had earned fair
competency he went to Denver. His
shingle bore the sign of real estate and
lawyer, and realizing on his investments
at a time when silver was booming he
found himself fairly rich He was then
only 40 years old. His natural shrewd-
mess husbanded this money wisely and
1t was about this time he openly declared
v,et hot hn CT f1,o
danger of the country, the gradual but
sure establishment of a plutocracy." He
abandoned his business for season of
travelling and study, delving into prob
lens which concerned especially the sill
yer states. California, Utah and Color
ado attracted him and no conference on
money was too distant to attract him.
Men were vague in their theories and the
neld seemed open for great work.
Chicago naturally offered the best ad-
vantages. Mr.. Harvey brought his fam
fly here, and for two or three years the
vigorous man was not conspicuous. His
ONCE in the Montauk Building was a
back room, and the elevator man took
fewer people to him than to any
other tenant. The establishment of a
paper did not cause any furore, but sud-
denly the name of Harvey appeared in
matters concerning workmen.
General Randall's industrial army
was thrown into Jail at Laporte, Ind,
and on the first train Mr.. Harvey reach
ed the scene to combat the arbitrary
work of the authorities. He secured a
speedy release of all the men, with YER
dict from the judge that the arrest was
persecution. This spurred him in q meas
ure, and, convinced that the entire in
dustrial trouble originated in the money
question, he resolved to issue a treatise
\ In popular form.
Ordinary work kept him busy during
the day, but from sunset to midnight he
labored upon his now famous yellow COW
n cred book. He alone was confident Of the
ultimate success of the venture telling
| to the agency expecting to handle the
! book that the sales would certainly
reach 100000 copies. 1t was then June
y year ago, and IL months has seen the
1mexpectation fulfilled within few thou
/ sand. Such a sale is remarkable, and
almost without equal, and is the one
thing which has made Coin" house
hold word in every village and hamlet in
Michigan, Indiana, Wisconsin and Iowa,
where political discussions are always in
order and always in progress. There has
not been lag in the sales for six months.
The office has been moved to the fifth
floor in the Fort Dearborn Building
where a half-dozen young women and
as many men are busy with orders and
letters of inquiry, which come in by the
thousands. 1t is thus that he has build
Jed a reputation in a day and fortune in
night
Mr.. Harvey is not done. 1t is con-
Fiction Of his that no man can write
looks like his unless he is inspired with
he honest belief in every word he writes
Ind knows that in his doctrine lies the