River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-08-15
suMMip UP.
Horr and Harvey Put the Finishing
Touches on heir Debate

Copyright, 1895 ~ Azel r. Hatch
CHICAGO Aug s-It accordance with the
agreement entered mildly the silver and gold
debaters, Messrs Hardy and Horr. GOV erning
their recent contest In this city, each VAS TO
prepare a recapitulatiCh OF the points made IN
their respective argu Gents. not exceeding
$500 words each and D. complete the same
within a week from th3 close OF the contest
This has been done ami in substance the sum.
mary OF Rosw well G. Hofr Is as follows:
hr Harvey admits chat the book Is pure
fiction He repudiate{its motto by declaring
that ii does not mean hat IL says. His state
ment that primary moSey only Is the measure
of value he has mob even attempted TO
sustained, though his Ikroof has been tlledfor
repeatedly. Hr. HarNfy next based lis case
upon the assumption that the law of 1873
was a crime, and stated that IL had
its origin in fraud And its birth through
bribery and corruption. He introduced
no evidence Ia suppoIf OF either proposition,
and he stands convictdt II making every one
Of these charges without any proof that would
be received in any couIt of justice. tie stands
convicted by his 1wn statements OF an effort
to deceive the peopla Mr. Harvey's state
ment that free toinage creates un-
limited demand Il nod true. because there
can De an unlimited demand for no human
productions Mr. Hafvey fails entirely to
prove that the use OF one metal as the meas
ure OF value is an EXPERIMENT He utterly
failed to show a fall intthe price Of single
article which Is dot fully accounted
for by cheaper {ost of production.
improved transportation or increased
supply. He inadvertently admitted the
great .alue of bankin4 f4cilltles. which was
an entire give away'I OF his whole rant and
fustian against bankss He misled people by
partial statements which led TO false conclu-
sions, when the wholet statement would have
been perfectly clear tosany one. The civilized
world is clearly on my hide of this issue
Mr. Harvey, In summarizing the debats,
says: 1T settled the deposition that gold and
silver are the money u the constitution Mr..
Horr did not controyerk this The silver dol
lar was the unit OF valfe In our coinage sys-
TEN fixed by the act iof 1872 Mr Horn ad-
mits this. Silver sndk gold wore the meas
uTe of value u all othef property until 1873 and
the debtor had right to pay In either
metal The act OF pa was surreptitiously
passed. ! have madk good all the PROPOSE
passed. For all timq OF which we have any
knowledge gold ld Nver were treated equal
ly as money u Ill 1871 Zen England closed
her minis - silver land 1874, when the
United States, Germany, France and the
Latin nations follower suit The prices OF all
property are now measured in gold alone. and
are substantt lily one Sllf what they would be
under the bimetalic asystem. Mr.. Horr fire.
quentlS In debs te substantially makes this
admission l. nave made good all the PROPOSE
lions set forth In my rpening statement Mr.
Horr found no erro4s in my book except
the btatement that tne silver cOlneu
prior to 1873 wak Sl05 100000 instead
of s143,0 O0Ol II NJ Horr had followed
me in the logical srraraement OF the debate as
indicated by the booI we we're discussing, /
would have been abls to furnish data more
fully iustfying poink in the school at
tackled by him. The last object in the way OF
this financial subject b seldshness Mr. Horr
shows that he does NOD yet know what bimet-
allism is -
Mr. Horn. In his rejfn der, said his opponent
took two days to dsetss a crime which never
existed, and had mob time to defend many
errors In his bod repeatedly pointed
out. and which I'D promised to explain
later. He now tells that wonders he would
have done had he hot been driven from
his essays, which he 81 lls his regular order "
In his summary he goxs out OF his way 20 vii
lify the supreme coert the only honorable
body In the United States which he had not
slandered in hts part OF the debate.
Nowhere has he 1 shown the advisa-
bility OF this Match freely coming sill
yer at 10 to I, nor lcsn he do it His
summary. like his de1lte attempts to dispar-
age, honest industry thrift and solvency.
Mr.. Harvey in reply, declared he made no
statement as to the c3ndition OF the people OF
the fifteenth and sixSentn centuries. reading
only a statement frouk the report of the none
tary commission of rlS76 to show what the
preface in the "ScnooS was quoted from Mr.
Horr is exceedingly mixed as to the order in
which presented the crime Of 1874 did not
claim that any one was bribed