The San Francisco call., 1895-07-20
RIDICULED BY STEWART.
More Than This, the Nevada
Senator Said That HOrr
Was a Buffoon.
AS TO MONEY AND BARTER
The Solution Not Unlike the Doctor
Who Threw His Patient
Into Fits.

NEW YORK, n. Y, July Ex-senator
Stewart of Nevada stroked his long sill.
very beard to-day in the golden-tinted
halls of the Waldorf Hotel and delivered
his opinion of Roswell G. Horr, now de-
batting with "Coin's' and the Reform
Clubs argument in favor of gold. What
started the Senator to talking was this in
nocent question propounded by reporter: ::
"Have you heard that the silverites de-
sire to nominate Senator Thomas Carter
for -President?"
A painful expression gathered on the
Senator's face as he said, 'Oh! that is too
absurd to discuss"
"What do you think of the debate now
in progress between Mr.. Harvey and Mr..
Horr?"
at can hardly be called a debate as far
as Mr.. Hor is concerned. He is black
guard and buffoon, pure and simple. l
know him of old. We once had a debate
in the columns of the Tribune and Horr' s
argument was mere buffoonery interlarded
with blackguardism. But l was patient
with the comedian because knew the
people would read my argument and see
the difference"
The silver Senator began to laugh in a
strident satirical vein, somewhat in imita-
ton of jacques in the Forest of Arden, J"
and finally pitched into document issued
by the Reform Club of this city.
81 was reading" he said, "on my way
over from Washington last evening a most
interesting document, which seems to
settle the money question"
EsIEbat waS tho dApumant9'i
"It was the July publication of the
Sound Money Pamphlet of the Reform
Club"
GLOW did they settle it?"
"They propose to quit the whole busi-
ness and return to barter"
"How did they arrive at that conclu-
sion?"
"By a very natural process. They said
that the selection of centuries favored the
use of gold and silver as measure of equal
and standard money. That such selection
raised the inquiry as to which metal ought
to be used. They then came to the con-
clusion that gold must be the better of the
two. but the suggestion that there was not
gold enough seemed to bother them.
'They finally said that it was a myth,
after all mere fable, but they did not
seem satisfied with their own arguments.
They seemed to fear that the people who
are losing by falling prices might think it
a reality and not a myth. To get rid of
this difficulty they proposed a new scheme.
They demanded that the Government
should abd1cate its sovereign power to coin
money and regulate values and confine
itself 10 stamping the weight and increase
of the bullion. They said when the Gov
eminent had done this that it had done
everything that it had any right or power
to do, and declared that the solution of the
whole question was the abandonment by
the Government OF its power to make legal
tender money. They went further, and
declared that the people should be let
alone to make their own money by con-
tract"
''They did not explain whether the con-
tract should be oral or written, or how
they would make proof in case of oral con-
tracts, nor what they would do with i'm
piled contracts for services rendered or
property received. / shall wait with much
curiosity to see how the Reform will work
out the details of It's new system of barter.
They started out to vindicate the gold
standard. They commenced by showing
that the double standard had not been dis
astrous and they called it myth"
The Nevada statesman fired this parting
bomb at the Reform Club writer's:
"After the argument just quoted they
discover that they were theL in the condi-
ton of the family doctor, who, because ne
could not diagnose the case of his patient,
proposed to throw him into fits for the rea-
son that he had sure cure for fits. The
Reform Club, being overwhelmed by the
distress of the country, naturally has re-
sorted to the experiment of putting the
country into fits of barter. thinking they
have sure remedy for that particular
kind of fit."