Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-18
THE GREAT DEBATE.
SECOND DAY OF HoRR-HARvtY DEBATE
MT. Horr Disproges 'Coin's" Assertion as to the Depreciation of Wheat in the
 Fifteenth Century.

Chicago, July 17.-(Copyright, 1895 by Azeil Hatch 1.-The second session of the Horr-Harvey silver debate began at ? o'clock in the Auditorium of the Illinois club before the same limited audience. MT Horr began by quoting Hallams Middle Ages" as authority to prove the fallacy of Mir Harvey's statements in his book regarding the degeneracy of the world commercially in the fifteenth cen tury as a result of the depreciation of sil- yer. He cited fom Prof. James A. Thor aid Rogers to refute the statements made by MT. Harvey from his book that the price of wheat had fallen in that period and that the lot of toiling masses became more miserable with the passage from the eighth to the fifteenth century, as charged by MT. Harvey. Leber, Mal- thus and Hyndman were also cited in ,, the contradiction of the silver champions Fifteenth century statements, He con crsnded
 Mir Harvey and his tree silver friends ldeniJify prosperity and the progress of man Twith the lot of feudal nobility of Eu- rope N and mt with that of the toilers. Later l shall show that In his treatment or lhe present, as follows the past, MT HarVeyx stands the exponent of the rlch' ana not for thet oilers, whose wei fare shoulnJ first be considered by the constitution o~f the state."
 to explain the prasfaco to his hook because gold standard papefSs all over the country and his friends from New Yrk and else where hau declared that sit was forgery, and he did not intend to lu-gue with IIorr that the monetary commis.Ision from the representative of which the, quotations were made did not know what it was talking about.
 He declined to have his mind eliverted from the regular argument and loss.y cal arrangement of the debate. He declarc.,d that the debate so far had settled as tdlt what was the money of the constitution, what was the value of unit as fixed by the framers of the constitution In favor of his book. The keynote which he wanted to sound was that there was no good reason for debasing one of the met als when gold and silver had ben honest money for centuries, when under free coinage laws and equal treatment. both had equal on the purchasing power in their own right and upon population and the demand of the money market was growing every year.
 MT. Horr, ito clinch this business" which he declared his opponent had in- troduced, read from Professor George | Guntons Wealth and Progress" to show there was rise instead of a fall in tho price ofwheat in the fifteenth century, | and a corresponding increas SC in the early | part of the sixteenth century. The prices he quoted show that wheat had been steadily advancing instead of falling, as claimed by his opponent. He resented Mir. Harveys severe criticism of Judge | Vincent for deciding In his remarks yes terday the question whether the framers of the bill of 1873 intended to establish two measures of value. He had not con | sidered that when men got bitten with either the fiat money craze or the free silver craze they instantly become ego ttstical and abusive of every one who diff fered from them. Judge Vincent had de- cided the question as submitted to him by individuals as he honestly believed was right, and it was right but Mir | Harvey had called him dishonest.
 MT. Horr read from a letter of MT. Leach, for many yeas director of the mint, who took precisely the same view that the claim of the silver dollars as the unit of value was inconsistent with the bimetallic system. This decision was exactly in accordance with the facts The laws authorized a gold dollar unit and a silver dollar unit, and silver dollar unit | different from each other in intrinsic | value. That was the reason the law of 1873 was proposed
 MT. Harvey replying declared that Mr. l Horr had admitted yesterday that the silver dollar was the unit of value and the record showed that 1t now was. He attempted to twist something back into | the discussion by which he was to be be- lieved as saying one thing yesterday and something else today.
 MT. Horr was accused of trying to mix l things by discussing bimetaliSm and the | relation of silver and gold, which were in the second chapter of the book. He asserted that neither Mir Horr nor Judge | Vincent knew any more of bimetallism than a babe. He accused his opponent | of travelling on side tracks and neglect ing to follow the agreed order of discus sion. He then introduced a discussion of the characterization of silver and the | crime of 1873 He accused Senator Sher- man of being the arch-conspirator and the union financiers his accomplices.
 A Gilan+ Mourper