People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-07-25
HOrr-Harvey Debate.
Thursday-The Crime Of 1873.

the hilt today in the HOrr-Haryey en-
counter. Mr.. Horn opened up the
sharp work right at the start. He
said that his opponent had said:
"Mr. Horn has only taught in this de-
bate a proposition that is in the in
terest of every money lender in the
world to advocate, and he is here ad
Yocating it," He continued:
81 say to my opponent now that l
am not money lender. | have not a
dollars interest in any banking insti-
tuition or American corporation or
any other corporation on the face OF
the earth. | have spent my entire
life in working for a living; all the
early part of that life was spent in
hard work on small farm; | CON-
menced working for myself at $40 a
month; there is hardly any kind of
hard manual labor in which | have
not at some time in my life engaged,
consequently my sympathies are with
the people who live by toll. Inever
meet man digging in trench out
that | feel like taking off my hat TO
him, because once dug bitches for a
living. | never meet brakeman or
baggageman without feeling kindly
toward him, because for months | was
a brakeman on freight train, night
and day, and my first promotion to be
a baggageman was one of the proud
est moments of my life. (Applause.)
l come into this debate for the pur-
pose of defending the interests, as my
friend will learn before finish it, of
the men who live by honest toll.
(Applause.l
'1dO not think it anything against
a man if he even become a stockhOld-
er in a national bank-I am informed,
Brother Harvey, that your father is
fortunate enough to own stock in the
Kanawha National bank. Am right
about that?
Mr.. Haryey-'NO sir; he does not"
Mr.. Horr-"Did he ever?"
Mr.. Harvey-"Never did,"
Mr.. Horr-"Well, it wouldn't hurt
him if he had, would it,"
Mr.. Harvey-"No sir"
Mr.. Horrible could own stock in a
bank anG still keep honest couldn't
he?"
Mr.. I[aryey-"Yes."
Mr.. HOrr-"A man could be success.
full in life without creating in men
any spirit of envy. I have learned
that men who accumulate money and
invest it in building up great indus
tries for the benefit Of the people who
earn wages, bless this nation and any
system which Injuries them, neceSsari-
ly Injuries the people who live by daily
toll. Consequently l am just as zeal
GUS in my efforts to prevent financial
disaster to the business men Of this
nation as am to see to it that wages
Of the working men are not cut in
two by using debased and depreci-
ated measure of values. Applause.
"When you divide the unit of meas.
ure-the value of it-lnto the two
pieces and make them the half for the
whole, you have injured them in a
way that is beyond computation"
Mr.. Harvey-I did not mean to
criticise Mr. Horr personally. That
he was an advocate of a pernicious
principle does not mean that Mr.. Horr
himself was bad man. This great
question is not going to be decided by
the American people by any advocate
parading himself before them as hav.
ing been a horny.fsted workingman
at any time in his life. Long cOntin.
uel applause.)
~ do not object to Mr.. Horr giving
the evolution of his life. do think
1t a little unfair to have omitted in
that evolution that he finally became
abank president. l do not deny that
Mr., Horn and numerous selfish banl
presidents have at one time been TIL
lers of the SOIL"
Mr.. HOrr-'In reference to my hav
ing been a bank president, l omitted
1t, not because was ashamed of thu
fact. 1t is true that at one time
had saved what in some places-no
in this city-we would call a compe
tency, and was a president of a ma
tional bank. In the crash of 1873
went down. What l had saved wa
swept from Under me. My position
as president of the bank resigned
but, l did not steal any money of tn
bank, not dollar. l went into tn
world again single-handed and wen
to work, and while putting in logs il
the northern part of Michigan, 1 wa
nominated for congress and sen
there, served six years Of my life an
did the hardest work | ever did, dun
ing those six years. l came out O
congress just as poor as went in.
could not come out any poorer. |