The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-24

people demands something higher than
that. Mr.. Horn should have thought OF
how the Government fixes the price on
gold. We ask the same thing tor silver,
that's ALL
Mr.. Harvey then entered into an argu-
ment on what he regarded as scientific
bimetallism, advocating the option OF the
debtor to pay in either metal, the most
important and essential in the success OF
bimetallism, preventing corners in either
metal. always increasing the demand for
the cheaper metal, and thereby restoring
it to parity if there should be break. To
give the option to the creditor would cause
the dearer metal to be used and parity
would be permanently broken, the gap
growing wider all the time. With silver
discarded we must go to the men who own
the gold to get it and submit to their terms.
A corner on gold could not, as it does now,
threaten the credit OF this Nation if silver
was in competition with gold as primary
money. If we used the $500, 600 silver
now in the treasury there would be no
borrowing of gold.
'My friend Harvey insists, said Horr,
sin conducting this debate without per-
uniting me to refer to anything he has
said in the previous part of the debate I'M
less it comes in order according to his idea
in his book. 1t is easy to see why he does
that. He has a portfolio filled with writ
ten essays worked out by himself or some
body-I don't know who-which he pro-
poses to read in his order. l came to
Chicago without a syllable having been
written, supposing this was going to be a
sort of stand-up fight. Every word read
is called out by the statements that he
makes here in the discussion. 1t may be
annoying to him, but 1 am running this
business to please myself
''That is right" shouted Harvey.
81 am not laboring very hard to please
you,' resumed Horr. 'Now, Brother
Harvey yesterday called attention to the
great increase of farm tenancy in the
United States since 1860, making that one
of the points of his book to prove that the
country is going to the dogs. 1t is from
his point of view, but not from mine. He
calls this an increase of evil and call it
good. Mr.. Harvey sees in tenancy, as it is
in the United States, the rising of man by
the hundreds of thousands from a low to a
high condition. He calls that national
calamity. Is it? l do not regard it so. If
you would show the people that this in
crease in tenancy had been the expense of
farm-owners you would have made point,
but that is not the truth. Undoubtedly in
Massachusetts, they have left their lands
in the hands of tenants, but they have
gone to the West. They make up the best
people in the western country. Persons
who have graduated from the farms of
New England have helped to build up this
great country of ours in the West. They
are the sinews of this nation"
"By the rules of this debate" said
Harvey, ''Mr Horn had no right to go to
that tenant subject now. Its logical place
in the debate is elsewhere. The statement
he had Just made, promise to show at the
proper time, will appear plainly unfair
and inconsistent with the facts. Primary
money is the measure of values. Gold
(our present primary is now the measure
of values. Mr.. Horn and l agree as to
that. Silver and gold working in the
ground virtually as one metal were FORM
erly the measure OF values"
You purposely misled the people of
this country" retorted Horr, "as to the
amount OF taxes ISNleQ anu pdlQ Oh The
banking institutions of this city in order
to smirch bankers and business men of
the city where you live. In Coin Up to
Date you endeavor to make the people
believe that the bankers and banks were
swindling the people and are using their
money for taxation"
The debate was adjourned to Thursday,
at l P. NJ.