The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-10-20
w. III. HARVEY ADDRESSES A
LARGE AUDIENCE IN MAR
kET HAIL
THE FEATURE OF THE EVENT
WAS THE APPEARANCE AND SING
ING OF sIXTEEN LITTLE
E Girls.
NECESSITY Eson MORE MON
Was Repeated at Length by the
Free silver Advocate-Giyen
Warm Rec option.


An audience that filled all the seats
and the gallery and overlooked into the
aisles crowded into Market hall to
listen to free coinage speech delivered
by w. II. (Coin) Harvey, of Chicago.
1t was well-dressed, attentive audi
cree, respectful in demeanor, noisy
enough at times to satisfy the most ex-
acting of orators, and at times there
were demonstrations of approval over
| utterances that some people might call
reasonable. There were many ladies
| present and, although the hall was not
heated, the great audience sat until IL
| O'Clock with upturned coat collars and
| cheered the author of financial litera-
| ture. ~ae< .
| Before the experimenting began six
| teen little girls clad in white dresses
| and wearing red, white and blue waists,
together with a little boy clad in con-
Venuonal costume and a tiny miss
whose costume from top to toe was the
color Of gold, went through an exer-
else illustrating the sixteen to one idea
| and sang songs about the pluto
Gratis of Wall street and the certainty
| OF victory in November for the friends
OF free coinage. These exercises
pleased the audience nightly and there
| were cheers and encOres until the little
folks grew tired of singing. When the
children had finished the grown up en-
tertainers marched on the stage and
Mr.. Harveyoteanle on with w. w.
Erwin. There were loud cheers for the
latter and equally noisy demonstration
! Tor the Chieagoan when he emerged
| from the collar of his great coat and
showed his features. Francis Clark,
candidate for9 congress, was there and
John Arnold Keyes, candidate for at
/ torney general and Archie, Mcleod,
Araon Poupefey. T. D. O'Brien, J. C.
Hanley, Louis: Nash, N. S. Beardsley.
Harry Caldwell and others equally
well known and prominent in free coin
| age circles.
Mr.. Harvey was introduced by T. r.
Kane, who made a little speech that
| pleased the crowd
| Mr.. Harvey did not dwell at length
upon the arguments that involve the
use OF numerals. For that doubtless
his audience was grateful. His open
| ing argument was that money is a
| necessity, and that, being a neces-
/ s.ty, it should have free circulation
| On the contrary, he asserted the money
! or the United States had been partially
! suppressed by law that interfered
| With Its free coinage, and that the re-
| suit was a boarding of the life-bIood
| of commerce. IF there were laws in
/ force preventing the production of
wheat TO an amount necessary for the
| uses OF the people, we would insist
! upon the repeal of such laws" said
/ the speaker. $50 we must do In this
instance. The law says we shall not
! coin the money that we need; we now
insist that such law is harmful to
the nation: Until recent years this
\ country had twoemetalS used as money
/ We had what is known as the bimetal-
/ lie system. Gold and silver passed as
| money, and each kept the other in
] check Later silver was demonetized
ard Immediately gold began to rise in
value. AS the years passed it took
! more and more of our product to pur-
chase q dollar in gold Gold was de-
clared to be the primary money and
1 we established another form called
| representative money. We established
redemption system. But behold, we
| now have representative money to the
| amount of ST. 600, 000, 900 and only $780,
600 of redemption money. Our credit
crs sent their representative money
to the banks and demanded redemp-
/ ton money. Then came a run on the
banks and the nation became a debtor
again to keep up the reserve of the
| redemption money. Let me tell Won.
| redemption money from foreign ma
TONS, 1t is only question Of time
when that nation will cease to exist
The gold HOnoTnetallists tell us that
| the law Of 1873 restored silver to it's
former usefulness. I say that the act
| OF 1873 was worse than the law of 1873
Its passage was followed with the is
suance of gold notes, bonds and mort
cages, because the act gave the creditor
the option which money he would take
! in the payment of debt Excuse was
made by Individual corporations and
state governments to refund their il,-
| debtedneSS that advantage might be
| taken of that wicked provision. Sill
| yer has been legiSlated out Of circu-
| lation-gold. they tell us, has been
| frightened into cover. There is no gold
4 in circulation today. A money that is
| not fit to circulate freely is not fit to
| be money. 81
| They say we are agita,tors, that the
| discussion of our financial system has
drawn gold out Of the country. A finan-
cial system that will not bear discus
1 sion is not wy,rth having When we
have the right system we'll know it
| and Well never get it unless we agitate
| for it. Think Of the ostracism that Is
| used to close the mouths of men who
/ are discussing this question which
| Christ began to study 1000 years ago.
Our forefathers provided free speech
| for their posterity. They knew how
despotism came, for they had expe-
| rienced it. They knew it began with
ostracfsrn: and that selfish wealth,
| without the protection of free speech,
would be followed by political crime,
| making speeches and being punished
| with Imprisonment It is the purpose
OF desPotism to check our freedom OF
speech. Ireland and Cuba know what
political crime means-dungeons chains
! and death, simply for the agitation of
| their rights.
Now is the crucial period in our
| history. The corporations have made
their employees to understand they must
/ vote as they demand, without accord
ing those employees the right to think
| for themselves. They are making us a
nation of tenants The slave owner OF
| would as soon expect to carry Eng
land for free coinage as New England
] and New York, where the people are
| already IS per cent of them tenants
What is abnormal supply of money
for the United States? There are now
deposited in banks of the nation
money belonging to the people amount
ing to IS, 0.0q00 900. There Is money In
| the county amounting only to 81 900,
Goo, 900. This greater sum is loaned out
by the banks to give the people enough
money to do business. The banks own
and control all this money. The diff
ference between these sums shows that
we have not enough money to do bust.
/ ness. We are obliged to borrow because
there Is NOT enough money to &c
around. Font this accommodation we
are Obliged to pay the bankers 5000
900 900 annually. If all the silver In
4 the world were dumped on our shores
there would not he enough money te
do the business of the nation"
Mr.. Harvey paid a fine tribute 20 the
women OF the nation. who. he said
had inspired the men to deeds of pa
tEotism In former times as they surely