Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-07-18
Silver Duel is Becoming
Interesting.
OTHERS TAKE A HAND.
Arguments Between Champions Har.
vey and Herr Brings Out Ques-
tions from the Audience.
His%to r.. ST.. culcAoo. July ~.

The Earyey.ho. ting today developed
Into general argua Representatives
from Phi9dtiphia. Kansas cry and nd. else Sc
two principals had hacked each other up TO
the limit The outsiders who entered into
the fight included II. l.. Bliss, .. II; Gum
and L. Starr. The hostiliuos Of the day bo-
gan by Mr.. Horr remarking In a pointed
manner that Mr. Harvey read an essay hero
yesterday upon the condition Of the world
during the fifteenth century, and especially
upon the discovery Of America In il92.
"He read the statement without It's having
been called out at all by me. and had not at
such an elaborate effort TO show the condi.
ton OF things In the world from 400 TO 1880
that l have taken little pains to ind II
could, whether there Is any truth in the
leaves him in a bad condition in this re-
gard, as IT does In regard to the bulk Of his
statements in Coins Financial school,
Continuing. MIR. Horn quoted Professor
Rogers. Hallam. Leber. Malthur. Hyndman
and others, to show that the force OF the
millions In Europe was rising before 1899,
that OF the feudal arstocracy with It's ty-
ranny was crumbllng to a fall. Mr.. Harvey
and his free silver friends identity pros
perlty and progress OF man with the lot OF
the feudal nutRbllity OF urope and not
with that OF the toilers. Rogers rs wen as
Hallam. speaks OF Tho gradual elevation Of
the people themselves as opposed to the
small number Of the rich and the notabes.'
Later ! shall show you that In his treat
Harvey stands as the exponent Of the rich
and not OF the toilors. whose welfare should
FIRST be considered by the legislation OF the
MIR. Harvey; offered to explain the pro-
face OF tho school" yesterday without wait
Ing for It to be attacked; because gold stand
ard papers all over the United States had
charged that II was forgery; that no
such questions as was there used were ever
made from the report Of any monetary
commission or any other official document
/ read from the report OF the United Statos
monetary commission Of 1876 not Tor the
purpose OF entering into an argument on
political economy OF the years 400 TO 1900,
but simply to show that all OF my friends
from New York aud elsewhere who had ac-
cused me OF forgery were wrong.
Now, ! am not going to argue with Mr..
Horr that the monetary commission did
not know what they were talking about IIo
shall not get me at any point in this de-
bate to divert my. mind from the regular
argument and logical arraignment OF tho
debate. That a man can put together words
that would convince an unthlnklng work.
lnEman that he was better on today by
Tar than he WIS In 1872, or who can con-
vince farmer that he Is getting higher
prices now than he was In 1872, ! would
expect him 10 CONVINCE crowd who are
not studying history that prices roso during
the dark ages at the very time they were
falling, and that the labnring men we're
fsring well at the very time when they
were working as the serfs OF the lnrds OF
Europe. Or. Aram Smith, an able historian,
whose works put into Mr.. Horr's hands
confirms all that there Is In that monetary
commission. Page III gives YOU tho table
Of rise Of prices that oontradicts every
thing that MIR. Horr has said here.
Now, ] proceed: Thus far we have con-
sldered two questons-gold and silver ss
the monetary unit OF the constltltio and
\ the unit OF value In our monetary syrtem
| Fixed by the trainers OF the constitution. and
tat what existed as our monetary unit nom
lis- to 1919; me debate on these Two points
| concerns, In the minds OF the people. II
| doubt that has been produced by m'freIre-
| sensations made by those aivpf siipg tho
| gold standard. The reading Of tho debate
| thus far settles those two questions IN fai or
| Of the book we are discussing.
Mr.. Horrible matter We we're TALKING
about when We closed last night was IN,
| question whether The trainers % The fll
| n 11g2 iu'cnlyl to establish Two mrasu'ts
OF values. Mr.. Harvey criticized Judge Vim
cent for having decided that case in his re-
marks yesterday, but very largely In COM
! parlson with the statements which he made
about him In print soon after he made the
decision; he even called him dishonest in
| that criticism Now. Judge Vincent Is a
reputable citizen take IT, OF Chicago. Some
| private individuals submitted ques-
| ton to him and he decided Il as he honestly
| believed was right and there is this pecu-
liarity about-t Is right, u-aughterJ Here
is what Judge Vincent decided
| at is undoubtedly true that the mllled
| dollar as 1t was then current was the start
ing point and the number Of grains that
compose a gold dollar was then asceTtained
| by dividing the number OF grains In the
| silver collar by ntttcn. But tlis does mol
ator the fact that the units were expressed
| in gold and silver. on the contrary, II
seems to show that both were made units Of
value. The word unit was employed as the
| equivalent Of dollar and the dollar was &c
consist OF either one OF two different things
one-tonth part Of 2i1 IA grains Of gold. OF
37l IL grains Of silver. Just as equal values
| may be embodied In given weights Of any
| two given commodities, such as wheat oil
corn. a unit OF value is the unit in which
values are expressed. The values Of both
Of 1894. so we have two units Of value Il
both had not been so expressed, We coult
not have bi-metalllsm.'
Mr. Horr also quoted ex-Drector Of thu
Mint Mr.. Leech. that the laws authorz,
both gold dollar unit and silver dollai
unit. different from each other IN intrinsic
value. That was the reason he QLocch
proposed the law OF 1872 and 1873.
MIR. Ilarvey-Yesterda at the close after
had quoted as authority for silver being I'll
unit the statute Itself the uttarances o
Secretary Gallatin, a decision by Chief Jus
tics Chase Of the supreme court OF the Unite
States and numerous other authorities, In
Guiding Roswell q lorr OF New York. Mr.
Hnrr then admitted that the silver dollar wa
the unit OF value and the record of yesterda
shows that Now. in view Of his attempt t
try 70 twist something back into the discuss
ion by which We are 10 bellows him as say
ing one thing yesterday and something els
today, ! leave him to such fate as tn
readers Of this debate think proper. Al
plausel In his constant attempt 10 try
discuss bi-metallism the relations Of siye
AMI gold before we get to that which is &
the second chapter Of School he is trying
mix the subject up. When We get there W
will see that neither MIR. Horr nor JudE
Vincent knows shat bi-emtallism Is. an
many things that he is now mixing US on wi
be cleared and Mr.. Horr will he even
babe tAppieusel. We agreed to take up IN
subject Of decentralization, the act Of 1871
In today's debate, and having waited for hi
to begin. and no not beginning viii no
start. applause.
Sir. Hofr-f beg pardon. you mlsquote ms
stated last uiKht that had got through wit
the unit Of yaiuei that ! had some otht
things TO submit, In many words. and v
dM not agree 10 take up any one subject
any particular session. only that we woul
tallo them in certain order and let them ru
until we had finished them.
Mr. fiarvey-And the order was that n
crime Of lS73. as NC call IL. came next att
, | he discussion OF the unit.
Mr. Iiorr-f am not through with thi
yet.
n.aughterl. Words are our ammunition
ths debate eo0n words apiece being allows
! | ID us and II the readers think that has
neglected some sidav issues that Mr.. Ho
: mas introduced I wan 70 tell them now tn
, 40 1t In order 10 devote my part Of II
words in this debate to that which viii (