The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-07
" COINS" PURE FICTION.
That Is What the Editor Saws
About the Authors
Book.
ARGUMENTS AND EVIDENCE.
keenest of All Is the Assertion
That the New Yorker Is Ignor-
ant of BImetallism.

CHICAGO. ILL, Aug. SIN accordance
with the agreement entered into by the
silver and gold debaters, Messrs. Horr and
Harvey, governing their recent contest in
this city, each was to prepare recapitula-
ton of the points made in their respective
arguments not exceeding $500 words each,
and to complete the same within week
from the close of the contest. This has
been done, and in substance the summary
of Roswell G. Horr is as follows:
"Mr. Harvey admits that the book is
pure fiction. He repudiates its motto
by declaring that it does not mean what it
says. His statement that primary money
only is the measure of value he has not
even attempted to sustain, though his
proof has been called for repeatedly. His
statement that the people of the fifteenth
and sixteenth centuries were in the most
degraded condition of serfdom and slavery
on account of the lack of metal
lie money has been completely de-
molished. Mr.. Harvey next based his
case upon the assumption that the law of
1873 was crime, and stated that it had its
origin in fraud and it's birth through
bribery and corruption. He introduced
ton, and he stands convicted of making
every one of those charges without any
proof that would be received in any ordi-
nary court of justice.
eff Congress was bribed to pass a bad
bill, then the bill must first have passed n
bad shape. Now, if that be true, then
there would be no need of clerk to do the
dirty work. Ii 1t was done by the enrol
ling clerk, then it follows that Congress
passed the bill as it ought to have been,
and consequently they would not have
done what he says they were bribed to do.
If Congress passed the bill all right and
the enrolling clerk enrolled it correctly,
then the bribery could apply only to the
members of the conference committee.
All these villainies are then abandoned
when he claims that the whole thing was
accomplished by means of "a substitute
BILL
'Mr. Harvey's statement that free coin
age creates unlimited demand is not true,
because there can be an unlimited demand
for no human productions. Mr.. Harvey
fails entirely to prove that the use of one
metal as the measure of value is an ex-
pertinent. He utterly failed to show fall
in the price of single article which is not
fully accounted for by cheaper cost of pro-
duction, improved transportation or in
creased supply. He misled people by par
tial statements which led to false conclu-
sions. The civilized world is clearly on
my side of this issue"
Mr.. Harvey, in summarizing the debate,
says:
at is settled that the proposition that
gold and silver are the money of the con-
stitution. Mr.. Horr did not controvert
this. The silver dollar was the unit of
value in our coinage system, fixed by the
act of 1892. Mr.. Horn admits this. Silver
and gold were the measures of value of all
other property until 1873, and the debtor
had right to pay in either metal. The
act of 1873 was surreptitiously passed.
For all time of which we have
any knowledge gold and silver were
treated equally as money, until
1916, when England closed her minis to sill
yer, and in 1874, when the United States,
Germany, France and the Latin Union
followed suit The prices of all property
are now measured in gold alone, and are
substantially one-half what they would be
under the bimetallic system. 1 have
made good all the propositions set forth in
my opening statement. Mr.. Horn found
no errors in my book except the statement
that the silver coined prior to 1873 was
sos, 900, 600, instead of $143,000,0 600. Mr..
Horr shows that he does not yet know
what bimetallism is.
Mr.. Horr, in his rejoinder said: "Mr.
Harvey took two days to discuss crime
which never existed and had no time to
defend many errors in his book repeatedly
pointed out and which he promised to ex-
plain later. He now tells what wonders he
would have done had he not been d riven
from his essays, which he calls his regular
order In this summary he goes out of
his way to Willy this afternoon
this court, the only honorable
body in the United States which
he had not slandered in his
part of the debate. Nowhere has he
show the ACCESSIBILITY of this Nation freely
coming silver at. 16 to l, nor can he do it.
His summary, like his debate, attempts to
disparage honest industry and solvence.
The whole system clearly aims at the de-
struction of law, individual development
and social order, if need be, through rev.
olution. | have shown that Mr.. Harvey
is devoting his life to deceiving the peo-
ple."
Mr.. Harvey, in reply, declared that he
made no statement as to the condition of
the people in the fifteenth and sixteenth
centuries, reading only statement from
the report OF the monetary commission of
1876 to show what the preface in the
School was quoted from. "Mr Horr."
he concluded, lis exceedingly mixed as to
the order in which l presented the crime
of 1873. did not claim that any one was
bribed.'
AGAINST FREE COINAGE.
Senator B"rroacs Spoke Before Big As
sen btdge in Michigan.