Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-08-03

try as prosperous as IL was at that time,
in spite of the crime of 1873"
Mr.. Harvey said he was accused by
his opponent of finding fault with men
and conditions for the reason, as he
charged, that the silver people de-
lighted to do so. Mr.. Horr had con-
trasted against that the better DISPOSE
tion in man that loved to look on things
that were pleasant.
Mr. Harvey continued: "He has
struck phase of human nature on
which volumes might be written and
1t is the hope Of all who take an active
part in the promotion of civilization
that the time will come when there
will be nothing but contentment and
happiness on this earth. But to reach
that period we must remove the obsta-
cles in the way. The argument he
makes has been used in all ages to for
tify and defend tyranny.
You cannot deter brave men, who
know their rights and dare maintain
them, by an argument that is intended
to lure them from the subject to which
they invite the intelligent analysis.
MIR. Horr's inappropriate language con-
sisted of words that might be ad-
dressed to slaves. but not to free men,"
Mr.. Harvey, in defending his use of
the Sauerbeck table to show the de-
cline in prices of staple articles since
1850, attacked the Aldrich table, which,
he said, was made by committee of
the United States senate and one of
the men who helped make it was Ed
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judged by the fact that he had recently
said over his own signature to Chi
cago paper that the proper way to deal
with silver man was to hit him over
the head with club. Yet that report
showed decline in prices to 80 per
cent below 1872 and per cent. below
the price of 1860. The Aldrich, Sauer-
beck and Soetbeer tables show that
prices are lower now than in 1850. All
the tables proved the enormous pur-
chasing power of money when ex-
changed for property and the small
amount of money property will buy
when exchanged for money.
Mr.. Horr accused his opponent of be-
ing tricky in quoting one sentence
from the article which he had written
for the New York Tribune and assum-
ing that it showed the gist of the whole
article. What he said in reference to
the mans theories being ridiculous did
not relate to his measure of value at
all. 1t was his attempt to substitute
paper dollar based on nothing with
which to do the business of the coun-
try. Mr.. Horr added: THAT is where
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ease that he has never dies out. He
hasn't reached the last stage of it.
That is the trouble. What he wants
and what the people are after is to de-
stroy all property and to put this ma
ton on a socialistic and anarchistic
basis"
Mr.. Harvey-I submit right here
that there is not one scintilla in this
debate that authorizes you to say that.
Mr.. Horr-I say there is one scin-
tilla in it and l say that up to date you
have got applause frem this audience,
your part of it only, when your argu-
ments tended to show that you think
the whole society of this country ought
to be destroyed. Cries of MOI
Mr.. Horr-I know what l am talking
about.
Mr.. Harvey-Mr. Horr-
Mr.. Horr-Well, never mind; don't
bother. Now as to banks. Why is it
that Mr.. Harvey feels called upon to
enter into TRADE against banks and
to indulge in such torrent of abuse
against bankers? 1 can hardly con-
ceive of greater, a more wicked mis-
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into the talk he has given us up to the
present moment. Why do you keep in
sisting that this country has nothing
left and that all we have in the United
States we owe to foreigners?
Why do you try to prove to the peo-
pie that we are on a brink of a preci-
pice-future ruin? Look at the facts
No nation on the face of the earth has
been as prosperous as the United States
since 1873. AS far as the United States
are concerned / know he is mistaken
Mr.. Harvey presented his opponent
with table of failures in the United
States during the last eighteen years
and declared that the credit system of
money, with it's tax of $500, 900, 900 an
nually, would account for every dollar
in those failures. If there was more
real money instead of bank credit
money, there would be comparatively
few debts and few failures. The peo-
pie owed it to themselves and to civili-
cation to get rid of bank credit money
and substitute for it real money.
In closing the debate for the day Mr.
Harvey handed Mr.. Horr as a souvenir
Il silver dollar of 1899, with the word
unit" upon it. MIR. Harvey said: Take
it, Mr.. Horr; Washington may have
carried it, jefferson may at one time
had it in his possession, it may have
paid for the paper on which the declar-
alton of war was written in 1912 against
Great Britain, it may have been fondled
by jackson when writing his message
to congress against the national bank;
it is fit souvenir for any American
proud of his country and of it's institu-
tions to carry in his pockets all the
days of his life.
Mr.. Horr, smiling, said: II shall
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