The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-07-17
BIG SILVER DEBATE.
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each instance its Importance. III IL is
charged that actual characters are used
in the book while similar books use fic-
titious characters, the answer Is Well
known that the utterances and the opin-
ions of these men are used, and the fur
Their answer that Shakespeare used &C
tual cha racters.
Mr.. Horr-I submit that IL my friend
had studied the Scriptures a little more
closely when he was looking for the mot
to which / shall take up next, he would
have found il somewhere stated that
man is not permitted to bear false wit
ness against his neighbor. He says he
put into their mouths the words that
they themselves would have uttered. 1
have had that done for me so many times
In my life that / know what it means.
But now come TO the motto of the book,
which is this: 81 thank thee. oh Father,
Lord of Heaven and earth, beause Thou
hast hid these things from the wise and
prudent and hast revealed them to
babes" Does my friend desire TO init
mate that the kind of finance which he
teaches is something that babes Will I'M
derstand but that people that know any
thing Will never be able to comprehend.
Applause.)
Mr.. HaIvey--Mr. Horr misinterprets the
meaning of that verse. The word babes
is intended to mean the pure OF mind and
unselfish. 1t is in that sense that 1t is
used in the Bible, and means that those
pure of mind and unselfish can see clearly
those things which the impure of mind
and selfish cannot see or understand.
(Applause) The cause represent is pure
and unselfish.
AT this point the contestants discussed
also at length the definition of money.
Coming to the money system of the Unit
ed States. Mr.. Horn said:
1.-THE first law that was ever passed in
the United States upon the subject OF
money was on the 9th day of July, 1885
That was two years after the subject had
been discussed in every shape and form
by the people and press of the United
States congress. l viii say the exact
wards: And on the question that the
money unit of the United States of Amer
lea Will be one dollar. the yeas and nays
being required by Mr.. Howell every
member answering Yea, it was resolved
that the money unit OF the United States
of America be one dollar; resolved, that
the smallest coin be of copper, of which
200 shall pass for one dollar: resolved,
that the silver pieces shall increase in a
decimal ratio That was the first action
taken by the American congress. They
first fixed the unit, that is the name OF
the thing that should be used as the
measure of value. deciding that IL should
be called one dollar, and that the SMALL
est division of that should be a half-cent
piece; that II should be copper and that il
should take 200 of them TO make the unit,
This was the first effort Of the new gov
eminent 10 establish a monetary system
Now every one will say that they had
not yet stated at all what the dollar
should consist OF except 30 half
cent coppers. That is all the law there
has ever been on the subject, and all
that has ever been said about IT any
where. tApplause1 So we had first the
money dqdfifNa Of a 4.
about II. Now comes the next import
ant legislation: Resolved that the STAN
dards OF the United States of America for
gold and silver shall be eleven parts fine
and one part alloy Originally that was
the weight OF alloy in all the coins of the
United states. Afterward we reduced the
alloy 80 that IL was one part in ten''
Mt Harvey-What Mr. Horr saws ahn,,,
copper used as money during the CONT
mental days preceding the adoptson Of he
constitution Is too trivial to be used IN
this argument. At the time our con~tftr-
ton was framed. the details governing the
concurrent coinage OF tho two metals g.,
our financial systems was under discus
sion in commit tees and between Statesmen
OF that period. So while these details
wers left 10 congress, after the adoption
or the constitution. a bs-metallic system
was provided for in that constitution. Ar
ficls ], section s. says: Congress shall
TFKfxfHTR
value thereof and OF foreign coins" see-
ton 10 SAYS: mo state shall coin MONEY
or make anything bat god and silver coins
tender in payment OF debts" II saws e~o,s
and silver faPplause) gold and silver. and
not god or silver, tapplause) This is the
question The states surrendered 20 con-
gress the right 20 separately coin money.
but expressly retained the right TO the use
OF silver and gold as money. neither
as token money. one representing
the other as silver Is now coined repre-
sentiug gold. bat both as money IN their
own right. Congress in good faith with
the states has 40 more right 20 danona-
t.ze one OF these metals than 81 has "a
demonetise bo.h % them. without the
consent OF the states applause The
men who framed this constitution .hao
proceeded "a give 10 the construction in
tended. They gave 70 both metals eaual
dignity. equal rights, except 20 make
the dollar OF silver the unit OF val
ue In which The value OF gold would he
measured. bot with concurrent coinage
with silver. They gave both metals free
ani unlimited coinage. Both we're given
fun ar, unlimited ese in payment OF
debts. There was no discrimination raada
in the use az the two metals. sxcept that
the unit OF value was % reside in the sil-
YER dollsr ard that golT coins were 10 be
OF the value OF 50 many silver dollars
This - the exact language % the stat
ute OF the men who framed the consti-
tuition and knew the construction that II
was Intended that u should have.
Mr. Horr-f want 10 say here the qnes-
ton OF unit I have not disposed OF to-
day I am not through with 70. and he
has taken so much time that / want 10
give a word as 70 Why they recolned the
gold instead Of silver. The reason was
because Ne had been on a silver basis
ana they did no, intend TO disturb the re-
Affan az money 70 the businssz Of +r.
country. GoI1 hal rot been used, and