The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-04
Polling Congrcss.

TIE NeN Qrk " Orld allreezel 4 us
| patch 10 each member Of congress whose
address it could obtain. asking his views
on TIE silver question. the income tax
qiestiql ana the tarin question. Replies
from us were published in its issue last
sunday -s
-fhetihfereilae from these publications
is that this congress will not
pass a free silver coinage bill that it VIII
not attempt to pass an income tax law
and that it will not Undertake 10 change
the tariff as a whole. though it may amend
it in some important particulars with
view Of increasing the reveHdes.
The utterances OF those who replied
yer question. II is, Impossible to say
whether OF not the views expressed on
that question are ia each instance the
views Of the authoroof the reply. or were
directed by the sentiment on the money
question supposed to prevail in his dis
trict. No doubt the authors Of the replies
in a good many instances were hamperei
by belief that frank avowal Of their
sentiments eon the silver question would
endanger their popularity With a very
large portion of their constituents. They,
therefore. hedged. and made declarations
which create doubt as to whether they
are as well informed in respect to silver
as they ought to be.
If the politicians and members Of con
gress should be entirely frank in their ut
terances on the silver question the silver
craze would come to an end in short or
der. Their practice of waiting to see
which is the stronger side, and OF get
ting on that side when they think they
have found which it is, delays greatly the
settlement of important public questions.
Although the World received replies
from only about one-fourth of the mem
berss of congress, it is quite safe to say.
judging from the replies it did receive.
that IN this congress there will be no
silver or income tax legislation, and verS
little, if any. tariff legislation. If congress
let's all those questions alone, the chances
are the country will gain greatly in pros
perity-in the next two years, and with the
fun return of prosperity there will be
very little demand for free silver coinage.
and less for radical changes in the tariff.
MIR. Harvey's Pueblo Experience.
The New York Sun publishes an inter-
esting letter from Pueblo, Col, in which
a few facts from the business career of
Mr.. Harvey, the author of Coins Finan-
cial School," are given. We think there
are very few who. after reading this letter
q
teach the American people what is right
or what is for their best interests, I'm re-
spect to silver. In Pueblo he was a land
boomer. and by means of extensive adver-
Using he attempted to sell to persons liv-
ing long way from Pueblo. city lots that
had little or no value He did sell many
lots, II what is stated in the letter is true
but the purchasers of them were never able
to dispose of them for anything like the
sum they paid for them. if, in fact, they
could sell them al all.
The lots were situated quite a distance
from Pueblo, and consisted of a lot of bar
rem land for which Mr.. Harvey paid about
50 per acre The advertisements of the lots
were calculated to lead the public to be-
leNe tndl 1utblO was growing with re-
markable rapidity and that the lots were
increasing in value at an extraordinary
rate.
1t seems that Mr. Harvey induced the
citizens of Pueblo to go into several spec
ulative schemes with him, but after spend
ing a great deal of money through his in
strumentality and influence, for which
they received no return, they came to the
conclusion that they had quite enough of
him and declined to. become contributors to
any more Of his schemes.
Mr.. Harvey appears to have CON
ceived the idea of leading the
American people, as he led the
people of Pueblo, to adopt his financial
schemes. His book. which has attracted
so much attention, is full of errors and
misleading statements. That it has de-
ceived a good many people there is no
doubt but its influence is now on the wane,
because the people are finding out that
its statements, which reflect the character
of its author, are unreliable and mislead-
ing.