The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-29
to do twice the business we are doing


to sum up the debate, and anything in
Mr.. Horr's arguments that do not reply |
to today I will attend to in that summary.
because there is only short time left to
us, and | want to answer some matters
that have been Introduced into this de-
bate at the earlier stages. I want to
speak a few moments on the proposition
that wages have been increased"
Speaking of organized labor Mr.. Har-
vey said: "Organization sustains wages
for those actually employed while en-
gagged at work, but when you average
the wages by including the unemployed,
and include the expense and time lost it
does not do SO. Make the calculation
this way and you will find the gold basis
has measured itself in wages with math-
ematical accuracy.
This is not good for the country; it
breeds strife. It creates loss to industry
and labor; it destroys manhood; it makes
| criminals. The cause for it should be
removed (Applause.)
"The labor organizations will con-
tinue and have a right to continue as
long as money is organized; as long
as monopolies are organized ZAP
plause.) But we should have a civiIiza-
ton that would make it unnecessary for
any organization of that character to ex-
! ist In Europe wages have been forced
! down to the legitimate level of the gold
standard. The bayonet has been used to
do it. Later it will do it here. The labor
ing man is on our side. We will hold his
wages up without strikes or the expense
! of strikes. AS the gold of California and
/ Australia raised his wages, so will the
silver Of our mountains as it pOurs into
/ our metallic money stock, as primary
money raise his wages There will be
work for all and the strife for labor will
| cease. The man who now has work Or
a situation aud selfi5hly reasons that he
benefits himself by maintaining dear
dollar is neither broad nor humane. He
| is assisting in wrecking his country and
it may be too late to remedy the errors
when he, too, is without employment"
! (Applause.)
Referring to the 10 per cent advance
in wages at Pullman affecting 1000 men,
conceded by the company without de-
mand by the toilers, mr. Harvey said the
facts are that there has been no advance
in wages at Pullman, and MIR. Pullman
himself admits that there was no ad
vance made; that they meant they were
giving the men who were at work 10 per
cent more work to do. They were previ-
ously working about half time. ZAP
plause.)
Mr. Harvey read a letter from Thomas
| l. Kidd, secretary of the Machine Wood
workers union, which said: If clothes
and food embraced all the necessities of
the labOring people, the dollar would I'M
questionably be of greater value to them
than ever, hut they do not, and what the
laborer may save by cheaper clothes and
food is more than offset by increased
rent alone. When all things are con-
sidered, the relative value of the dollar
! ia no greater now than in 1865. One
trouble that labor will not recognize in
the United States is that on account of
| the depressed condition of affairs the
laborers are not working full time. The
unions have succeeded in holding up the
price per diem, but the men are not
working, say more than one-half the
time, and are making that much less in
| dollars than they were receiving"
Speaking of tenancy Mr.. Harvey said:
| Twenty million acres of land in the
United States today owned by Eng
lish tilted nobility, and the English land
tenancy has TO that extent been intro
ducsd into this country. In the state of
Illinois there is q county by the name OF
Logan that has a county seat by the
name of Lincoln and you can drive for
miles through that county to the county
seat and have on both sides of you one
of Lord Scully's farms, with Irish
matched cottages over the land" Gap
plause)
Mr. Horr: ~ have travelled extern
sively, very extensively through thirty
one states of this union, and L never yet
saw single farm nor had my attention
called to one that was owned by people
living outside of the United States.
There are some, but they are few"
Mr.. Harvey said: "The proposition is
made by the gold standard men that all
of our efforts for the restoration of silver
are for the interest of silver bullion own
ers. 1t is not true. In our struggle to re-
ey in this country we have turned our at
tention to silver to reach the wrong that
was committed aud to restore to
the people that which was the peo-
pies money, Irrespective of who
owned the property. We do not
object to gold because the gold miners
produce it an d the argument that the
gentleman makes about silver producers
could be made with the same force about
the gold producers. But l want to make
another answer to it. | want to say to
you that the silver producers have not
assisted in the running of this campaign.
Applause If they were assisting any
one it is reasonable to suppose they had
assisted me. l began my work in May.
1898, by publishing weekly paper and
commenced bringing out books in De-
cemb Der, 1898 became chairman of the BIZ
metallic executive committee of the state
September, 1898. l appealed personally
and by letter to about all the silver
minors in the west for donations to as
sist US. We did not receive a cent. At
one time l sent out forty-four letters to
selected names of as many prominent
mine owners who were supposed to be
weslthy-such men as Moffat of Colora-
do and Clark of Montana-and did not
receive a cent from them. not even
enough to pay the postage on the letters,
not even the courtesy of a reply, except
from one. At the time l brought out
Coins Financial School, l was in debt
s and had no money left"
l In closing the debate for the day Mr..
Harvey handed Dir. Horn as souvenir
a silver dollar of 1899, with the word
| Unit upon it. Mr.. Harvey said: take
il. MIR. HOrr Washinrfnn may hava car