The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-26

You might as well talk about doing with
out air and water as to stalk about doing
without money. There is no condition
of civilization that you can imagine
by which you can be q part of
that civilization and vet do without
money. (Applause) And by the legis-
lation of 1873 it has been enhanced in ex-
change about double with your property.
This is the crucial point ia this financial
discussion. (ApplAuse.) A man loaning
money in 1878 that 1,0OO bushels of wheat
would have paid, you must now give him
1000 bushels Of wheat TO pay the debt.
(ADplauss.) The men who own bonds
payable in money and securities, paya-
bic in money aggregating more than all
the assessed value OF the property in the
United States, have leg islated so as to en-
hance the value of their property until
you have to give up twice as much to
them when they come to buy your pro-
perty as they gave up to you when you.
with your hard earni1gs, with the pro
duct of your loom and field. want to buy
their property. [Applause.l
Mr.. Horn: 'NOw, want 10 call the at
tention of nv friend to the fact that he
can't get at how farmers are doing simply
by selecting one article which happens
to be cheap" ..-- .-.----..-
BIZ. Harvey: 81 want to ask you right
here before these people to answer my
argument made just before / sat down"
Mr. Horn: Il am going to do it if you
will wait and keep still. That is what
am up here for now. LauP liter. The
very last thing he said was n re ersnce
to the fact that farmer had to give
twice as much wheat TO pay MS debt as
he did before the decentralization of sill
yer. What ails you? That is the very
thing l am talking about That is the
very thing that you can't possibly fad
out by taking one article and that the
lowest one you can fBd. Now I will
call your attention TO a confirm alton of
the figures which I have heretofore
given. Those figures show that prices
for farm products all taken to-
sether, you know. haven't declined.
Here in the United States, CON-
pairing the present values to those of
twenty years ago, 1 find my confirmation
IN an analysis of national wealth by the
great statisIician, Mr.. Mulhall, so often
| quoted by Mr.. Harvey. In the June
Worth American Review, Mr.. Mulhall
says that the average yearly accumula-
| lion of the agricultural workers per cap
tia for the United States, 1861 TO 1870, is
! $3.50 each"
Mr.. Harvey: will you pardon me-"
! Mr.. Horr: Don't bother me. For the
decade, 1870 to 1881, $4710 per capita,
| and for the decade, 1881 to 1890, $4T. 80
I per capita. Here is an ability On The part
| Of the farmer OF the country to save in
| the last census decade nearly three times
as much as before the silver legislation
j of 1873"
Mr. Harvey: Did you not have that
written before you left for New York?
| (ApplEuse.) He said we have increased in
wealth. Nobody disputes that. The United
/ States has not only bsen a workshop in
| producing wealth, but it h AZ been a sweat
shop. (Appiauss.) It has been producing
wealth, but have the men who produced
that wealth got the wealth. The rich men
are controlling the legislation of America
and the old world. and there is no plan
/ by which European civilization can rise
! from under it, and when we have passed
four or eight years further along there
Will be no way for us TO rise from under
! it We are making in the United States
today the last stand for free men in the
civilized world"
Answering of questions occupied most
/ Of the remainder of the day. the debate
finally being adjourned, at Mr.. Horr's re-
| quest, till Saturday at l p. N.