Arizona weekly citizen., 1896-05-16
COIN, HARVEY TALKS SENSE.

 | COIN" HARVEY TALKS SENSE.
 The address of W. H. Harvey in i Omaha to the Republican Bimets!lic
 League last week contained unanswer. i able arguments in favor of the free
 coinage of gold and silver at ratio of | Is to 1. Here Is a short extract from his speech:
 "They say we gre sgitators and dis turb confidence. That is aa argument that has been made by every selfish
 dsepotism in the world. Ostracism, and
 an attempt to suppress free speech by
 means of ostrscism, should never find
 sympathy in republican form of gov
 ernment. It is hot republican; 1t is
 intended to drown the voice of the peo- pie; it is not the argument of honest
 men. They make you poor, and then make fun Of you because you advocate one of the fundamental principles of the republic founded by Washington aun Jefferson. They are the Malsys of con- merce who ridicule the men they have made poor. If their monetary system was practical it would need no such defense. It would defend itself.
 They tell us that the increased pro- duction of gold is going to supply so much gold that it will be cheap, and wheat will go back to s1.30 per bushel. The fact is that these men who have deceived us for twenty years, lied to us in psrty platforms, used every form of deception as it became accessory to meet unanswerable arguments and allay the csmor of the people, are now resorting to falsifyipg tue statistics. Those who committed the crime of 1873, and who have defended it since then by the weapons one would expect such men to use, have now graduated in the school of fslsehood and are increasing the SUD- ply ot gold-on paper.
 "But let us follow them up and ad- init for 8 moment that their statement is true, and see wEere 1t leads us. All the gold they claim there is in the world will go in the space of twenty-two feet each way. It will go on this stage. All the gold they claim to have been produced in the lset year will go in two of the seats you are occupying, and not obstruct the view of those behind them. Prof l Suesse of the university of Vienna has published a report, giving letters from the watch factories and others using i gold in the man nufactures, and he shows that the arts and sciences, including | dentistry and other usee, consume the | snnuel supply of gold, with small ex- ception, which he thinks goes into the war chests of Europe. He estimates that the annual production of gold adds aothing to the stock of gold for mone- ;ary purposes. You who are familiar with mining camp yarns will certainly lot be deceived by this last deception attempted to be practiced upon cur ,redulity.
 "They say the free coinage of silver is n the interest of the silver bullion oWn- ,re. Ask them, if is this true, in whose interest is the free coinage of gold? We LOW have the free coinage of gold; have 7ou heard anyone say this was in the interest of the gold bullion ownere? Money is not local. Its needs are as general as the wide world. This ques- ion to decide is, out of what do we want to make our primary money? And when that question is settled, 1t is fixed or the benefit of all our citizens and without reference to thoss who may dig t out of the ground. On your west is .he great range of the Rocky mountains, with its treasury vaults that should ,e one of the greatest sources of wealth 70 this nation. Had our leaders been rue to the republic, they would never nave listened to English influence that prompted them to destroy in part that wealth. They would have at least suh- nItted it to vote of the people whose money they were about to degrade"