The advocate., 1895-07-24

coinage Of both metals by this government
in the ratio OF 1S TO win restre prosperity
to this nation.
Mr.. Horr-Before entering upon the dis
cussion proper desire to call the attention
Of my opponent TO the manner In which
this book is written.
Mr.. Harvey-The school liz allegoricali
Il marshals the opinions Of the two siden
Of this controversy. 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 written. "
The fact that a little boy in knee pants was
the instructor Of the men was supposed to
be sufficient to Ak the story az allegorical'
(NIr. Harvey illustrated by referring to
Aesop's Fables, Robinson Crusoe and Other
books which though not actual fact taught
great lessons. He also referred to Shakes
pears and to poetry in general, and con-
cluded as follows: ''Tf It Is charged thai
actual characters are used in the boob
while similar books use fictitious chaTac'
ters, the answer is that the well-knowr
utterances and opinions OF these men are
used and the further answer that Shakes
peare used actual characters"
Mr.. Horr-T desire to say that to me th'
excuse is a very lame one. am somewhat
familiar with fiction, have heard Of Shakes
peare before, but nowhere In the history o.
all literature can you flnd another instance
Of a man selecting his immediate neigh
bors and putting words into their mouths
which they never uttered and then pub
fishing It to the world. He says
that he put into their mouths the words
they themselves would have uttered.
have had that done for me so many times
in my life that know what 1t means
never yet had fellow state what would
say II / had a chance who got anywhere
near what I wanted 70 say myself.
But now come To the motto Of the book
which is this: II thank thee,o Father, Lord
of heaven and earth because thou hast hid
these things from the wise and prudent
and hast revealed them unto babes"
would like my friend to tell me why hs
used that motto. Does he desire TO inti
mate that the kind of finance which h'
teaches is something that babes will under
stand, but that people who know anything
will never be able to comprehend? ZAP
plause and laughter). Is that his idea
Mr.. Harvey-Mr. Horr misinterprets tn
meaning of that verse. The wore
''babes" is intended to mean the pure o.
mind and unselfish. Tt is IN that sense
that 1t is used in the Bible, and means thai
those pure Of mind and unselfsh can SEE
clearly those things which the impure o.
mind and selfish cannot see or understand
In carrying out the idea Of an IL
lustrated book, an illustrated preface wa
adopted to show the rise and decline o
civilization concurrent with an increas
and decrease In the volume Of primar,
money. / used only sufficient o
the authority to establish the principl
to be taught, and that space would permit
The authority used was the report OF tn
Monetary Commission appointed by Con
gress in 1876, reported in 1877 and pub
lished in 1873 The copy used had th
date OF its publication on the cover, an'
that date was given In accrediting tn
authority. now read from the repor
the paragraph from which the abbreviate'
statement printed under picture In prefac
was made. 1t begins with the last tw
lines on page 40, and Is as follows: cat th
Christian era the metallic money OF th
Roman empire amounted TO 81, ,000,O O0C
BY the end OF the fifteenth century It ha
shrunk to less than $20O,O0O,000. Durin
this period most extraordinary and bale
full change took place in the condition @
the world. Population dwlndled, and com
merce, arts, wealth, and freedom all dis
appeared. The people were reduced b
poverty and misery to the most degrade
condition Of serfdom and slavery. The dis
IntegratiOn Of society was almost complete
The conditions OF life were so hard that in