Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-08-03

bushels OF wheat would have paid, you
must now give him 1000 bushels OF
wheat to pay the debt. (AppIause.) The
men who own bonds payable In money
and securities payable i'm money aggre-
eating more than all the assessed value
OF the property in the United states
have legislated SO as TO enhance the
value of their property until you have
got to give up twice as much 10 them
when they come to buy your property
as they give up To you when you go with
your hard earnings. with the product OF
your loom and your field. TO buy their
property. tAppiause.)
MIR. Horr: NOW, | want 10 call the
attention of my friend TO the fact that
he cannot get at how farmers are DO
ing simply by selecting one article whica
happens to be cheap
Mr.. Harvey: II a TO ask you right
here, before these people, to answer my
argument made just bafore ] sat down.
Mr.. Horr, IL am going to do IL II you
viii wait and keep still: that Is what
am up here now for. O~Laughter) The
very last thing said wa In reference To
the fact that a farmer had to give twice
as much wheat 10 pay his debt as ne dld
before the decentralization Of silver
What ails you? That presents the very
thing | am speaking about. Now, was
stating that you cannot possibly n
out the facts In reference to the farmer
simply by taking one article u that
the lowest one you can find. Now ] viii
call your attention 10 a confirmation OF
the figures which ! have heretofore
given. These figures show that prices
for farm products, all taken together.
you know, have not declined here In the
United states. comparing the present
values TO those Of twenty years ago. ]
Ind my confirmation i'm an analysis OF
national wealth by the great statistical
authority. Mr.. Mullhall. so often quoted
by Mr.. Harvey. I'm the June North
American Review Mr.. Mulhall says h a
the average yearly accumulation OF the
average agricultural workers, per
capita. Of the United States was for the
decade, 1861 to 1870. Sl7. 80 each"
Mr.. Harvey: win you pardon me
Mr.. Horr: Don't bother me. For the de-
cade of 1870 to 1884. $40 per capita and
for the decade 1881 to 1880 $3.50 per capita.
Here is an ability on the part OF the farm
crs OF this country TO save in the last CEN
sus decade nearly three times as great
as In the decade before the silver lcgisla-
ton OF 1873"
Mr.. Harvey: Did you have that written
before you left New York. (Applause.D
He says that we nav Increased in wealth.
Nobody disputes that. The United states
1as not only been a workshop In producing
wealth, but II has been a sweatshOp. tAp-
plausc.) Ii has been producing wealth,
but have the men Yho produced that
wealth got the wealth? The rich men
are controlling the legislation Of America
and the old world and thpT. IL no Man by
which European civilization can rise from
under il, and when we have passed four
or eight years further along there will be
no way for us to rise from under IL. We
are making in the United States the last
gtand Of free men In the civilization OF the
world" (~Applausc.)
The answering Of questions occupied
much Of the remainder OF the day, tho
debate finally being adjourned at Mr..
Ilorr's request until Saturday at ] o'clock
Il. IN.