The Irish standard., 1895-08-10

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4 tainted AZ soon sas leS sat i1 the chair, ans
while in this eondt ton i he was Killed 81
1.-The electric current which vas SEN sen
Through ris body Tor nearly two minutes
l This Eai q h,lnnanit nisms up 10 date.
THE SILVER QUESTION.
people had generally come to Ii
como lusion regard ding the debate between
Harvey and Horn on the silver question
ithout waiting for the conclusions these
fgentlenlen might arriVR at later for them,
selves. But the Stunning up has been made
/ and again Horr, according to his own
showing, has come out Of the encounte,
as the second best man. AS a rule he did
not attempt to show what he himself had
fproven. but instead what his opponent
had failed to- prove He taunts Harvey
with vilifying all the better elements Of
society, one of these elements being the
congress Of the United States, and says
that he attempted TO prove that bribery
corruption and fraud had become habitual
to this nation. Certainly 1t was a das-
tardly thing for Harvey to do, if he did
it. because it is an axiom Of the people
| of this country that members Of congress
are the most immaculate beings we can
scare up in all the districts OF the land.
Why, Horr himself was member of con-
gress from the Wolverine state, and as he
was saint all the other members were
likewise annointed.
Another statement of Horr's was-and
these two were about the only statements
he made which are worthy Of attention
that we should all wogk in harmony with
people who have large experience and
solid business sense. In other words,
every man who is not In the business
of handling money should submit to the
opinions Of those who do. What right
has q man to think of money If he hasn' {
got a great deal of It?
Harvey in his summing up shows that
every material statement made in his
book has been sustained. He argued that
the great danger in relying on bank credit
TO make up for the insufficient supply of
money, aside from heavy tax of nearly
$2oO,000,000 yearly, On the people, is the
power Of those engaged in banking to
control this system Of credit so as to bring
On panics by shutting Off this supply at
pleasure, as they did in 1857, 1873 and
1893, when they used this power for the
purpose Of teaching the people lesson.
Harvey further stated that the world at
all times has had to contend with business
pan1cs, and that the lives of most men
and women have been troubled in acquir~
ing even the necessities if not the COM
forts OF life. The manner in which we
are living today does not prevent the re-
currence Of these financial disasters. so
tnat there must be something wrong in
our methods when the majority Of peo-
pie are continually struggling for sub
slstence and in most OF cases meeting with
Indifferent success. He said it had been
thought that labor saving machinery,
assisted by inventions and other modern
improvements, would lessen the burdens
OF mankind, but It has not. The rich and
the poor are further apart than ever be-
fore, and the struggle for existence is
growing keener day by day. The rich
and powerful, as a rule, care nothing for
the poverty and hardships Of the great
majority
II something was not wrong in our civ
ll1zation we could, with all our modern
appliances, amply subsist on the labor Of
one hour each day. devoting the remain
der Of the time to rest, enjoyment, culti-
walton and advancement. Selfshness is
the bane Of our lives, and this selflshness
is induced by the love of acquisition. It
is commercial age and the ownership of
property is held paramount to every other
consideration, not even excepting human
life. 1t was this selfshness that caused
the demonstration of silver so that those
who brought it about might increase the
volume Of their possessions. Dealers in
money have thus been enabled to place
L ; = y I y r. e.
mortgages upon the producers Of the
world. If the people now would only act
unselfisnly and intelligently in the pres
ent crisis through which we are passing.
we would learn the manner Of properly
living and a new era Of civilization would
dawn upon us.
All these ideas must be self-evident to
every one who has given our present
mode of existence any serious thought
We are constantly deyising means of how
we shall dispose of our surplus, and yet
tens of thousands of people are starving.
It will not do to say. that we must expect
the poor to be always with us or that if
men were not recklessly improvident
they would thrive Every day cbserya-
ton and experience disprove these state
ments. Human suffering occurs because
people have not vet learned how. to prop
erly govern themselves. 81.
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THE DIVORCE TILL.
The grinding out Of divorces in North
and South Dakota has become q national