The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-16
HE BACKS UP SILVER.
WILLIAM HOPE HARVEY, WHO WROTE
"cOlNS FINANCIAL SCHOOL,"

Ills Experience Has Been Varied and Inc
teresting-He Began schoO1teachers
Practicsd Law, scPrOmoted' and Finally
Took Up the Study of Finance.
William Hope Harvey, the author Of
"Coin's Financial School, which has
had such an enormous sale, especially IN
the south and west. will be Al years old
on Aug. 16 Of the present year. He was
born in Buffalo, Putnam county, W.
Va, the son Of a farmer. He went to
school in log schoolhouse winters and
worked on the farm summers until he
was 16. At that age he began to teach I,
school himself. At the same time he be-
gan to study law, and at 10 was admit
ted to the bar of Caben county, w. Va.
In 1875 he removed to Cleveland
where he practiced successfully for two
years In 1877 he went to Chicago, and
in 1879 left that city for Gallipolis, O.,
where he became counsel for several
business concerns, and also entered the
dry goods house of John T. Halliday &
Co., as partner. At Gallipois he was
married to Miss Anna Halliday. In 1884
he left that place, abandoned law and
for a few years drifted about the wesO
and southwest engaged in promoting
various enterprises, with Denver as his
chief center Of operations. Sometimes
he made good deal of money, and
sometimes not so much, being in this
respect decidedly like large proportion
Of his successful American fellow citi-
Zens
At one of the transmississippi con-
crosses, held in New Orleans, which he
attended four or five years ago, there
was long debate upon gold and silver
as money metals. Mr.. Harvey listened
to the debates with great interest, striv-
ing to master the doctrines of all the
speakers and to decide for himself which
| was right. But he found it impossible
to arrive at a conclusion from listening
to the addresses, since the arguments
put forth by every one of the speakers
seemed vague, indefinite and indicative
both of incomplete knowledge and I'M
digested thought.
ct knew, to begin WITH he said to
a friend the other day, "that 1 was
ignorant upon the money question, and
that is why I listened so attentively to
the New Orleans debates. When they
were finished, I had learned something
not much about the money question,
it is true-but had found out that the
debaters know little or nothing more
about it than did. -
It was not Mr.. Harvey's plan to give
up investigating the currency question
because the protested oracles upon that
subject could afford him no light. On
the contrary, he determined to examine
it for himself in all its bearings. For
the next few months, therefore, he did
little else but study that question. Aft
er he had gone deep enough into the
matter to reach conclusions of his own
he decided to devote the remainder Of
his life to instructing the people along
the lines which he deemed correct.
With this end in view he went to
Chicago, where he established weekly
paper which ne styled Coin. Then he
brought out Archbishop Walsh's Obi
metallism and Monometallism, and
managing his paper in the daytime be-
gan writing nights. Archbishop Walsh 9
book was issued in December, 1898;
"Coin's Handbook in March, 1894;
"Coin's Financial SCHOOL, in June,
) 1894; GA Tale Of Two Nations in Sep
TENDER, 1894 Chapters of Silver by
Hon. Henry @. Miller of Chicago, the
same year, and Coin g Financial School
Up to Date'' in March of this year.
81 had no literary training, said
Mr.. Harvey the other day, in speaking
of his writing, "but I understood fully
that if I wished the people to read my
books they must be simple and interest
ing, and it was this that determined the
form and style of my compositions. p"
No matter how Mr.. Harvey's doc
trines are received, and, as every one
knows, there is wide difference Of
opinion concerning their soundness, no
one can doubt that he understands how
to interest the people, since the sale Of
his books has been almost if not quite
unprecedented. 1t "sagged a little at
the beginning, as he says, but soon be-
gan to pick up, and now it is stated that
Of the School more copies have been
sold than of any other book by an Amer
lean writer, unless it be Mrs. Stoves
} "Uncle Tom s Cabin. -
Mr.. Harvey b olzs younger than he is
He is quick, ne Fous and almost boyish
IN his movements His dull brown hair
md mustache are yet untouched with
gray, his face is thin, with a strong
jaw, and his eyes are of the color some
3 times described as steel gray. His coat
Is double breasted and cut as sack, he
wears soft hat, wide shoes, rundown
= collar and black tie. Though delight
t ID with the sale of his books, he does
! not produce the impression that he is
"stuck ON himself"
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