The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-07-18
HORR ON HARvEYS VAGARIES.
THE MICHIGAN GETTING FAR THE
BEST OF THE DEBATE.

The world Not Degenerate CONNER
ctalIy in the Fifteenth Century as
the Result of the Depreciation of
SiIver-AH the silver ChampiOn's
Statements Seem 10 he BASED on
Very MeaEer Historical support.
Copyright, 1895, by Azel F. Hatch.
Chicago, July 1.-THE second session OF
the Horr-Harvey silver debate began at .
o'clock in the auditorium of the Illinois
Club before the same limited audience.
Mr.. Horr began by quoting Hallams Mid
die Ages" as authority to prove the fallacy
Of Mr.. Harvey's statements in his book
regarding the degeneracy Of the world
commercially In the fifteenth century as
result Of the depreciation OF silver. He
cited from Prof James a. Thorold Rogers
to refute the statements made by Mr.. Har-
vey from his book that the price of wheat
had fallen in that period and that the lot
of the toiling masses became more misera-
bic with the passage from the eighth to the
fifteenth century as charged by Mr.. Har-
vey. Leber. Nautilus and Hyndman We're
also cited In the contradiction Of the sill
yer champions fifteenth century state
ments,. He concluded: Mr. Harvey and
his free silver friends indentify prosperity
and the progress Of man with the lot of the
feudal nobility of Europe and not with
that of the toilers. Later 1 shall show
that in his treatment Of the present as Of
the past Mr. Harvey stands as the expo
nent of the rich and not Of the toilers,
whose welfare should first be considered
by the legislation Of the state"
Mr.. Harvey replied that he volunteered
TO explain the preface to his book, be-
cause gold standard papers all over the
country, and his friends from New York
and elsewhere had declared that is was
forgery, and he did not intend to argue
with Mr. Horr that the monetary COM
mission, from the report OF which quota
tion was mados did not know what II was
talking about. He declined to have his
| mind diverted from the regular argu-
ment and logical arrangement Of the de-
bate. He declared that the debate so far
had settled the question as TO what was
the money of the constitution, what was
the unit of value as fixed by the trainers
of the constitution. in favor Of his book.
| The key note which he wanted 70 sound
was that there was no good reason for
| debasing one of the metals, when gold
and silver had been honest money for CEN
! turies when under free coinage laws and
| equal treatment both had equal purchas-
| ing power in their own right, and when
| population and the demand on the money
market were growing every year.
Mr. Horr, to "clinch this business, -
which he declared his opponent had intro
duced, read from Prof. George Gunton s
wealth and progress" to show there was
| a rise instead Of a fall in the price OF
i vyh In "a Hftapnfh century a nd "a Dnrrqc.
| ponding increase in the early part OF the
! sixteenth century. The prices he quoted
| per quarter show that wheat had been
| steadily advancing instead of falling, as
| claimed by his opponent.
He resented Mr.. Harvey's severe criti-
| cism of Judge Vincent for deciding In his
remarks yesterday the question whether
the trainers of the bill of 1892 intended to
! establish two measures of value. He had
| noticed that when men got bitten with
! either the fiat money craze or the free
| silver craze they instantly became ego
| tistical and abusive Of every one who
differed from them. Judge Vincent had de-
cided the question as submitted to him by
| individuals as he honestly believed was
| right and ii was right but Mr.. Harvey
| had called him dishonest.
Mr. Horr read from a letter Of Mr..
| Leach, for many years director of the
mint who took precisely the same view
| that the claim that the silver dollar was
| the unit of values was inconsistent with
| the bimetallic system. This decision was
| exactly in accordance with the facts. The
| laws authorized a gold dollar unit and a
| silver dollar unit different from each other
in value That was the reason the law of
1873 was proposed.
Mr.. Harvey, replying, declared that Mr.
| Iforr had admitted yesterday that the sill
yer dollar was the Unit of value and tho
| record showed it. Now he attempted to
| twist something back into the discussion
| from which he was to be believed as say
| ing one thing yesterday and something
| else to-day. Mr.. Horr was accused Of
| trying to mix things by discussing BIZ
metGllism and the relation of silver and
| gold which were in the second chapter
of the book. He asserted that neither Mr..
Horr nor Judge Vincent knew any more
of bimetallism than a babe. He accused
his opponent of travelling on side tracks
and neglocting to follow the agreed order
of discussion. He then introduced a dis
cussion of the demonetization of silver
and the crime of 1873. He accused SEN
ator Sherman of being the arch con-
spiratcr and the European financiers his
accomplices.
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