People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-07-18

ful manner. Laughter L feel now
that what we want to get at is that
fact about the book. so that we will
know how we are proceeding"
Mr.. Harvey said: THE school is
allegorical; it marshals the opinions
of the two sides Of this controversy so
that one in imagination can see the
conflict of opinions and the contest as
it proceeds. 1t puts in the mouths of
the gold standard advocates their well
known views, fairly stated, with
which the country had been flooded
up to the time the school was writ
ten. The strength OF the book was
intended to be in the fairness of stat
ing these views. The fact that a boy
in knee pants was the instructor of
the men was supposed to be sufficient
to fix the story as allegorical. One
reading Esop's fables does not care
whether animals talked or not. 1t is
the subject and the truths uttered
that give to it in each instance its i'm
pOrtance. If it is charged that actual
characters are used in the book
while similar books use fictitious
characters, the answer is that
the well known utteranceS and Opin-
ions of these men are used and the fur
Their answer that Shakespeare used
actual characters"
Mr.. HOrr: 81 submit that if my
friend had studied the Scriptures a
little more closely when he was look
ing for the motto which We shall take
up next, he would have found it some
where stated that a man is not per-
mitted to bear false witness against
his neighbOr.
"He says he put into their mouths
the words that they themselves would
have uttered. | have had that
done for me so many times in my life
that | know what it means, but now
| come to the motto of the book,
which is this: II thank Thee, o Faith
er, Lord of heaven and earth, because
Thou hast hid these things from the
wise and prudent and hast revealed
them unto babes"
"DOes my friend desire to intimate
that the kind of finance which he
teaches is something that babes will
understand, but that people who know
nothing will never be able to cOmpre-
hend?" Applause and laughter.)
Mr.. Harvey-"Mr. Horn misinter-
prets the meaning of that verse. The
word babes is intended to mean the
pure in mind and unselfSh. 1t is in
that sense that it is used in the Bible,
and means that those pure in mind
and unSelfsh can see clearly those
things which the impure Of mind and
selfish cannot see or understand"
Here came the first applause of the
debate.
"The cause l represent" Mr.. Har-
vey continued, lis pure and unselfsh. y
Mr.. HOrr-"Gentlemen, l merely
called his attention to the use of
Scripture, which he has fully ex-
planned by saying that the passage
does not mean what it says, that the
babes really means honest, disinter-
eSted persons.
II desire to say that the motto is
not susceptible of the explanation he
now makes of it. The MOTTO was in
tended to illustrate the fact that a
bOy,a child even, like his young fellow
that taught finance in his book, could
distinguish the difference between
right and wrong and would be among
the first to learn to live a pure life.
But | submit to him that the motto
does not give an excuse for boy be-
cause he is in knee breeCheS to stop
telling the truth. 1t does not give
the boy any right to misrepresent
facts"
At this point the contestants dis
cussed also at length the definition Of
Coming to the money system
Of the United States Mr.. HOrr said:
"The first law that was ever passed in
the United States upon the subject Of
money was on the 9th day of July,
1855; that was two years after the SUBJ
iect had been discussed in every shape
and form by the people Of the United
States. Congress then, l will say the
exact words, And on the question
that the money unit of the United
States Of America be one dollar, the
yeas and nays being required by Mr..
every member answering aye,
it was resolved that the money unit of
the United States Of America be one
dollar. Resolved, That the smallest
coin be Of copper, Of which two hun
dred shall pass as one dollar. Re-
solved, That the several pieces shall
increase in decimal ratio
THAT was the first action taken by
the American congress. They first
fixed the unit, that is the name of the