The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-27

(Copyrighted, 1895, by Azel F. Hatch)
Chicago. July 18.-The Horr-Harvey
silver debate was continued to-day
from 10 a. m. to 1 p. m, a change haY-
ing been made in order that copy can
be carefully revised by the contestants
prior to its delivery to the newspapers,
and for other reasons. Mr.. Horn again
opened.
Mr. Horr-Previous to entering upon
a discussion of the law of 1873 I desire
TO state something as to my personal
relations in this debate, because my op-
ponent yesterday stated: Mr. Horn
has only taught in this debate a propo-
sition that is in the interest OF every
selfish money-lender in the world to ad-
vocate, and he is here advocating It,
I say 10 my opponent now l am not
a money-lender, I have not dollar
interest in any banking institution or
American corporation or any other cor
porations 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.
Now, having stated this, I desire to
say 20 my friend, I have no prejudice
against men who have been more for
tunate than myself, and who have ac-
cumulated money where I have not.
do not think that a man becomes a
scoundrel necessarily because he saves
a part of what he earns. [ have been
in every corner, every nook of the
state in which my friend was born; the
hills and the valleys of West Virginia
are familiar to me; 1 have Travelled
through her sheep growing counties,
been in her mines and her lumber
camps; I have learned something of her
people. I do not think it is anything
against a man if he even becomes a
stockholder in a national bank. 1 am
informed, Brother Harvey, that your
father is fortunate enough to own stock
n the Kanawha National bank; am I
right about that?
Mr.. Harvey-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.. Horr-He could own stock in the
bank and still keep honest, couldn't he?
Mr.. Harvey-Yes.
Mr. Horr-A man could be successful
in life without creating in me any spirit
of envy.
Easy to Understand. o
Mr.. Harvey yesterday Mr. Horn IN
dertook to impress on you how difficult
it was for anybody to understand the
science of money, except-the inference
was bankers. l criticised that by call
ing your attention to the fact that that
impression had been attempted to be
made upon the minds of the people
through all the history of money, and
that it had assisted them in causing
the people to abandon consideration
of their financial system. and leave it
to those people who were enriching
themselves by it and who would make
it to suit their interests. Therefore, it
was to their interest to make you be-
lieve that you knew nothing about it
and never would know anything about
it. (Applause) I then added that you
(AIr. Horn were here repeating that
poisonous argument. l did not mean
to criticise Mr.. Horn personally. That
he was an advocate of a pernicious
principle did not mean that Mr. Horn
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-fisted working man
at one time in his life Oong and con-
tinued applause) I do not object tc
Mr.. Horn giving the evolution of his
life. l do think it was a little unfair
to have omitted that in that evolution
he finally became a bank president
That statement should have gone with
the balance in the play to popular IA
vor- I do not deny that Mr.. Horn and
numerous selfish bank presidents have
at one time been toilers of the soil
The minds and character of men ara
nodded only in part by their early asso
Citations. As they grow older in thi.
feverish age, where money has beer
erected as a god selfish motives max.
them climb from one place to anothe
until it has become a proposition tina
a man can only win in this world b.
his ability to make money, and tn,
fact that a man is raised on farm an
after wards gets into the whirlpool O
city life among capitalists and corpor
atoms and becomes an employe of cor
porations, even at wages equivalent il
each day to two months salary of
working man, we are not to be blame
for believing that their characters ar
nodded by subsequent events in thei
lives.
The value of the debate yesterda,
was in this. A studied misrepresenta
ton has gone before the people of tn
United States that there was onl
eight millions of dollars of silve
coined by the United States prior t
1873 Now, meeting face to face wit
a representative of the other side @
the question, this debate now carrie
TO the people of the United States tn
$1,000 fact Tho. H., -.--- e q nnn