The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-31

Mr.. Horr-Glancing at them T and
that this reports the failures of 1857 as
compared with the failures of 1893.
That is. they report the failures of both
these years, and make the COMPARE
son. 1857 was a year of fearful
panic. I lived during those years. I
suffered during those years. I know
something of the trouble that spread
over this nation then. We then had,
according to my friend Harvey, a dou-
Bile standard We had another bad fail
ure in 1898, which he attributes to our
being on the gold standard. I am not
going to take the time in this debate to
tell you what really led up to that panic
in 1898, but one factor that entered into
the panic of 1893 was the fear of the
business men of this country and the
world that our nation was going
| to be given over to a class of
men that were shouting for free silver.
! That was one great trouble. In his i'm
! mense effort in his last speech to make
! out that the country was going to ruin
! he recites the suicides and diseases that
are incident to the human family at
| this time. But before get through I
J must finish the failures of 1857. That
! table of his shows that they amounted
to 1921 $780, 900, or SO per capita. That
was under your double standard. In 1898
when we were under the gold stand
ard, the failures were S346779 900, that
is 1925 per capita. (Applause) They
were just about double in 1857 what
they were in 1898.
But now to go back. Yesterday in a
vivid description of what we are doing
under this crushing money power he
could not express himself until he COM
pared the story of the cruciixion of our
Savior, and laid that to the money pow
er of that day. He forgot that the only
man that betrayed our Savior was Ju-
das Iscariot, the only silver man of the
entire tribe (applause), and, what is re-
markable, he insisted on a ratio of thir-
ty to one. daughter and continued ap-
| plause)
Now he takes up my illustration of
the running water and wants me to tell
him what would happen if they took
away >one-half of the water from the
! fount of a stream and so let only half
OF it run down. If they should do that
unless there was plenty of water in the
stream after they took the half it would
make trouble. But if they could spare
half and still have enough to do all the
business of the country it wouldn't
make one particle of difference, not one
particle. And before I get through
am going to convince Mr.. Harvey, so
that he will leave the room perfectly
overwhelmed daughter and applause)
with the truth of my proposition.
| HauShter and apDlauSe)
Credit a Good Thing.
Now my idea of life is entirely differ
ent from his. I think that credit is a
good thing, and we cannot have a cred
itor unless there is a debtor. Mr.. Har-
vey, you are not the first person have
seen in the world who has conceived the
idea that everything is wrong in the
world on account of some one thing.
sometimes call such men cranks
Naughter) You will not be offended
when I give the full definition of
crank" I don't use it for the purpose
of being offensive. It is a man who has
been thinking and brooding over some
one thing until he twists everything
in the universe so as to make it tally
with his theory about that one thing,
and then forgets all the other circum-
stances of life. 1t is on this account
that Mr. Harvey talks constantly about
the unlimited demand for money when
free coinage is given to silver. Why,
there is no such thing in the world as
an unlimited demand for anything. He
knows it. There is a limit to all de-
mands for every kind of property, for
everything in this world of ours. Why,
I wonder, Brother Harvey why instead
of devoting yourself to business you
haven't before now established a school
for the education of DOCTORS From your
speech this morning on insanity, ETC.,
you have clear cut idea about physi-
clans, and if you will apply your meth
cd of arguing you will open such a
school tomorrow. The only way is to
start out with the proposition that the
whole human race is sick Qaughter);
that we are all subject to disease; that
there isn't single person on the face
of the earth who hasn't some aches and
some pain. Now if there is any unlim-
tied demand for anything on the face OF
the earth, it is something that will re-
lieve people from feeling badly. Doc
tors are the things. Consequently in
order to carry out your theory it would
become necessary to magnify the dis
ease of the people. Make them think
that every little ache is a. disease that
threatens life, and then you would get
an unlimited demand for doctors. Now
in order to carry out just that theory
my friend Harvey has magnifed the
debts of the people of this country. He
does not recollect that the business Of
the world is Tnore done uDon credit
than all other things, combined. WheI
you strike down the credit of the world
you bring trouble.
Wage Farmers Not Creditors.