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

here yesterday upon the condition Of
the world during the fifteenth CEN
tury, especially upon the discovery of
America. 1892. He read that state
ment without its having been called
out at all by me, as | had not attack
ed that part OF his book. But he
made such an elaborate effort to show
the condition of things in the world
from 400 to 1880 that have taken a
little pains to find out if ! could
whether there is any truth in the
representations that he makes, and |
find that his story leaves him in as
bad a condition in this regard as it
does in regard to the bulk of the
statements in Coins Financial
school,"
Continuing, Mr.. Horn quoted Pro.
feSSor Thoroid Rogers, Mallam, Leber,
Nautilus, Hynrman and others to
show that the lot of the millions in
Europe was rising before 1892, and
that of the feudal aristOcracy, with
its tyranny, was ''crumbliDg to the
fall"
Mr.. lIOrr said: "Mr. Harvey and
his free silver friends identify pros.
perity and the progress of man with
the lot of the feudal nobility of
Europe and not with that of the toll
ers. Rogers, as well as Hallam,
speaks Of the gradual elevation of
the people themselves as opposed to
the small number Of the rich and
noble Later l 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 toll
ers, whose welfare should first be con-
sidered by the legislation of the
state.n
Mr.. Harvey replied: when / VOL
unteered TO explain the preface to
the School yesterday, without wait
ing for it to be attacked, it was be-
cause gold standard papers all over
the United States had charged that
it was a forgery; that no such quota
tiOn as was there used, was ever
made from the report of the United
States monetary commission of 1876,
not for the purpose of entering into
an argument on political economy of
the years 400 to 1900 but simply to
show that all Of my friends from New
York and elsewhere who had accused
me of forgery were wrong.
Now | am not going 20 argue with
Nh Horn that the monetary commits.
sion did not know what they wereI
talking about. He shall not get me
at any point of this debate to divert
my mind from the regular argument
and logical arrangement of the de-
bate That man who could put to-
gether words that would convince an
unthinklng workingman that he was
better of today by far than he was in
IlSR, and who can convince farmer
that be Is getting higher prices now
than he was in 1872, l would expect
him TO convince crowd whip are not
studying history that prices rose dur
ing the dark ages at the very time
they were falling, and that laboring
men were faring we'll at the
very time when they were working
as the serfs of the lords Of Europe.
DR.. Adam Smith, an able historian,
whose work l put into Mr.. Horr's
hands yesterday, confirms all that
there is h that monetary commission.
Page III gives you the table of the
rise Of prices that contradicts every
thing that Mr.. Horr has said here.
"Ihus FAR e'have considered two
questions. gold and silver as the mon
ey Of the constitution, and the unit of
value in our monetary system fixed by
the famers Of the constitution, and
that which existed as our monetary
unit from 1892 to 1893. The debate is
Of value thus far in eliminating the
doubt that has existed on these two
points in the minds of the people-a
doubt that has been produced by mis-
representations made by those advo-
eating the gold standard. A reading
of the debate thus far settles these
two questions in favor Of the book we
are discussing"
Hr. Horr-"The matter 6e were
talking about when we closed last
night was the question whether the
trainers of the bill of 1892 intended to
establish two measures of value. Mr..
Harvey criticized Judge Vincent for
having decided that case, in his re-
marks yesterday, but very tamely in
comparison with the statements
which he made about him in print
soon after he made the decision; he
even called him dishonest ia that
criticism. Now, Judge Vincent is a
reputable citizen, take 1t, of Chica-
go. Some private individuals sub
Initted a question 10 him and he de-