People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-07-25
tloa of the gold basis to the. gentle

resumed specie payment and the only
money Of final redemption was gold.
He asked was distress abroad in the
land from that on? The fact is that
the years from 1879 to 1892 found our
people better employed and at better
wages than in any other same num-
Der of years since this government
was formed. (Applause.l Four mil
lions of men today out Of employment.
Where did you get your figures?
Mr.. Haryey-'I said from two to
four millions"
Mr.. HOrr-"Two 10 four millions.
Four millions is out Of the question.
Two million is just about as bad.
There is not any truth in any state
ment."
Mr., Harvey-"As to the prosperity
of this country between 1879 and 1892,
you could not break down a great
nation like this in one year. 1t has
taken a short period to bring US to
the bitter cup Of disappointment and
distress. l know that every four
years political parties have charged
each other with having destroyed the
prosperity Of the previous four years. :"
(Applause.l
Continuing Mr.. Harvey asked Mr..
Horr not to refer to the prosperity"
Of the country from 1873 to 1895.
''The word tramp was coined in
1873 and the United States census
shows that depression has been In
creasing at a disproportiOnate ratio.
So has the number Of penitentiary
cOnvictS, persons confined in the
aims houses, insane asylums and of
suicides. The prosperity that has
built up milliOnaires and multi-mil-
liOnaireS has strewed this country
with millions of tramps and paupers
and men that don't know how they
are going to provide for their families
in the coming year. (Applause.) A
change in the relative production had
no effect as long as the minis were
open to the coinage of the two met
ais" (Applause.)
Mr.. HOrr-'I have never said that
the cheap price of silver was not on
account of its oyer-rrOduction. Sill
yer has become cheap in this world
just precisely the same as wheat and
corn, and zinc and lead and other art.
icles have been cheapened. Just pre-
ciSely for the same reason. (Ap.
plause.l All Of these articles have
been cheapened by the natural laws
which govern the production of every
substance known to the producers of
the world"
Mr.. W. D. Wilcox of Chicago: "How
about gold?"
Mr.. HorY: "Gold the same. l am
glad you asked me. Gold has deprec-
lated in value in less than 100 years
% per cent. 1t is cheaper now than
it ever was in 1873. All articles that
can be produced by inventions are
cheaper than they were before the in.
VentiOn was made. Every method
which brings money into play and
puts less human toll into their do
ductiCn cheapens the article. The
whole trend of civilization is to
cheaper human products, gold as well
as silver and wheat. A large number
Of the articles today produced in the
world have not been decreased in
value at all by the demonstration of
silver but simply because the laws OF
protection have crowded down the
price. l can get today twice as much
gold for days work following the
pillow as did in 1S49. The presidents
OF the country are paid in gold fol-
their work; so they were in 1860.
Wages are 70 per cent higher paid in
gold for the same amount Of work than
in 1880; Has not gold deprecated
then when you measure it with the
great commodity Of human toll?
What | find fault with is that silver
men invariably leave out Of their
calculation this article of labor and
the article Of labor is the greatest ar
ticle known in the civilized world,
ut down the pay OF labor and you
paralyze the entire business of any
nation. The men who do the work,
especially in republic like ours, are
the men who consume"
Mr.. Harvey: 'Mr. Horr says that
everything has cheapened, including
gold. To say that gold and products
cheaper simultaneously is a financial
contradiction. You buy gold by ex.
changing other products for it. When
it takes more property to buy gold
than formerly, gold has risen. In.
stead Of becoming cheaper, gold has
become dearer and yet Mr.. Horr's so.
phistry reasons that it has become
cheaper. He says to the labOringman
You can buy more with a gold dollar
than you ever could and then turns t.