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HORB AND HARVEY.
'ONTINTUD FROM I,AST WKKK.
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value, was not used in tills country as
the actual measure ofter 1834. He de-
nies that. We both agree that from
1862 to 1879 the domestic business of
this country was done by using the
greenback dollar, as the measure of
values, which was during none of these
years equal in value to either the gold
dollar or the silver dollar. He states
that in his book—we both agree. Now
mark We both agree that in 1873,
since the resumption of specie pay-
ments. the domestic and international
business or this country had been done
on a gofd basis. We agree that Great
Britain had been on a gold basis since
1816; no dispute about it. I claim that
Germany ceased the coinage of silver
in 1871, and he claims that it was not
done until later, in 187$, but we both
agree that since Jan. 1, 1874, Germany
has been entirely upon a gold basis. We
agree that the nations whlclf composp
the Latin Union, to-wit, France Bel-
gium, Switzerland, Italy, and Greece,
are al! of them today gold standard
countries. There is no dispute be-
tween us that British America and Aus-
tralia are also gold standard countries. |
We agree that Mexico, China, Japan,
and several of the republics of Sofath
America are silver standard nations.
There is today no nation on the face of
the earth that is actually using a
double standard. The actual measure t
of value in each of the countries of the
world is either gold alone or silver
alone except in some countries where
depreciated paper money is the circu-
lating medium and metal money is
bought and sold as a commodity, just i
as was the case in this country during j
°the suspension of specie payments. Mr. ;
Harvey claims that the law of 1873 was
secretly and fraudulently passed. He
won't deny that ho claims that. That
I have denied and still deny. I say
there is not a grain of°truth is such a
statement. But we both agree that the
law wty? passed anc^ is in force today.
Now, the Important question#before the
American people at this moment, and
the one we are here to discuss, is this:
Ought the law to be repealed? Ought
we to .again throw open the mints of
the United States to the free coinage of
silver, upon the old ratio of 16 to 1,
when the actual ratio of value in the
markets of the world Is fully 30 to 1?
Point* of Agreement. 0
IL'r. Harvey—When I have re'ad the
p* tilted record of what Mr. Horr has
Just now sa?d it will be time enough
for me to take up a new subject. I am
not done with the present subject yet.
The act of 1853 served the purpose of
the men who were seeking to overthrow
our constitutional standards of money
In this way. In 1853, on#account of the
exportation of oiir silver coins by rea-
son of the French ratio of 15^4 to 1 be-
ing less than ours, 1$ to 1, Congress,
preserving the silver unit, ordered by
act that the fractional silver, 60 cents
and loss, should be#cut down in size to
*the French ratio to stop its exporta-
tion. The silver unit was preserved
without even coining one of them. «Jt
would regulate the other coins al!* the
i&rr? #
Now, with that explanation, I pro-
ceed. I want all the men and women
of America #to read #the worjls uttered
in the two houses of Congress on the
day the bill was passed, May 27, 1872,
and Jan. 17, 1873. It is the best school
on thip question that they can attend.
The .reading of it will cause them to
•agree with me. It tan be found in the
Congressional Record or in No. 7 of the
Financial Series, published by the Coin
Publishing Company, *of this city,
wherein it is copied, and ^hope all pub-
lishers of books on finance will include
it in the appendix*of every book-th^y
publish.
frier d advocates
plause.)
I will now go back to it.
saying that Mr. Harvey and mvsolf
agree that the law of 1873 \vw passed
Dropping the matter of how it hap-
pened to be, the fact'still exists.
The important question before the
American people at this moment, and
one we are here to discuss, is this:
Ought the law to be repealed? Ought
we to again throw o;)en the mints of
the United States to the free coinage
of silver upon the old ratio of 16 to 1
when the actual ratio of value in the
markets of the world is fully 30 to 1?
If Mr. Harvey—now listen—shall
succeed in proving that the people of
thf United Sjtates in 1873 were mostly a
set of corrupt scoundrels and that he is
really the only pure and upright man
left in the entire city of Chicago, it
won't avail him anything in this de-
bate. These questions are not perti-
nent to the question in dispute. The
]pxv of 1873 did pass; it is today the law
of the land. Several attempts have
been made to repeal it in congress and
they have thus far failed. Mr. Harvey
claims that the law should be repealed
at once and that this nation shftuld in-
stantly be placed upon a silver basis;
that ds, that 371% grains of pure sil-
ver should be made the only unit of
value in the ifnited States now mark
—and if the gold dollar shall prove to
be more valuable than such a silver
dollar, then the gold dollar should be
reduced in size until theogold contained
in it is worth no more than 371 *4
grains of pure slfver. You claim that
in this book; that is, "Coin" does, and
I suppose he won't deny that.
Mr. Harvey—You state me wrongly.
Mr. Horr—Hero .the issue between us
is clear-cut, and I oppose such legisla-
tion with all my soul and with all my
strength. That Is really the only
question in dispute between us. %
In order to° decide intelligently, we
must inquire somewhat® into the doc-
trine of ratios. I now ask "is it possible
by legal enactment to fix a ratio of
value between two substances and ttfen
maintain such a ratio ioi* any great
length fit time, either In the markets
of the world or in the country where
suth law is enacted?
I pass to the discussion of the ques-
tion of ratio, as leading up to the cor-
i* rect solution of the dispute between
hold back so as to get this out'of the
wv.
Mr. Horr T couldn't do that. Tf he
| wants to still keep'barking at that old
! hole let him bajk. I am proceeding 10
discuss the question before us.
There has been an effort among the
civilized nations of the world from the
eatllest days of history to try and do
business by using gtld and silver as
money. There has been always an at-
tempt among all these people to fix
some ratio between the real value of
gold and silver, so as to use both met*
als indiscriminately.
DrprcrUtlon of 8 lrcr.
Mr. Horr At the close of the debat«
en Saturday I had given the facts as to
the constant depreciation of silver as
compared with gold since the dawn of
civilization. The civilized nations of
the world have at some time or other,
all of them, tried to tlx a ratio so as to
give free coinage to both metals.
Through jllages the market or commer-
cial value of the two metals has been a
changing quantity, hence ihe ratio has
been variable. A difference between
the legal ratio and the commercial ra-
tio of one-fourth of one per cent has
the dearer metal
Del Mar tells us that In the archaic j been enough to drive
| out of any civilized fountry on the r.tce
j of the earth. History is full of efforts
of governments to force the legal ratio
upon the people, and there is no in-
stance on record where the market
epoch, in the very earliest days, where
the records were kept on the papyra of
Boulak, that gold and silver were equal
in value, one exchangable°for the'other.
At that time an ounce of gold was
worth just as much as an ounce of sil-
ver, people cared nothing as to which
one they received. He then tells us
that lnothe Vedlc epoch silver had de-
preciated so that it took four ounces
of silver to buy one of gold. lie next
tells us that fn the Brahminical epoch,
that was away down in 1600, the ratio
was 1 to 5, and in 1367 the ratio in
some of the countries of tho east was
6 to 1. In the Buddhic epoch it had
changed to 61/a to one. In India it was
6% to 1, and then remained so for long
j0years. In 1700 in India it raised that
Is, towered—the price of silver to 6*£.
I In 1150 the ratio had become 8 to 1. In
i Marco Pilo, middle agf s, he tells us
! that in 1290 It varied in different coun-
! tries from 4 to 1 even to 10 to 1; dif-
j ferent countries had different ratios.
I In 1295 in the
ratio had got
value of each metal has not controlled
in the end, and the best money has al-
ways been driven from the field by the
cheaper. Such result Is in accordance
| with a law that is as universal and as
j unchangeable as the law of gravitation.
! Our forefathers tried the experiment
| and fixed the ratio at 15 to i in 1792.
| The commercial ratio at that time was
! about 15 1-3 to 1, and our gold coins
; lefj us. In 1834 the legal ratio was
j changed to 16 to 1. The commercial
i ratio was at that time about 15% to
! and our silver 'boin left us. yhis be-
I came so marked that in 1853 oongress
Year.
'1836
1839
1S40 ..
1841 .
1842
IS 13 .
IS 14 .
1845 .
twe .
1847 .
184S#.
i849 .
to 1K73.
Silver
Dollars
Coined
26.000
63,500
94,000
,.. 636,500
,.. 733,930
78,500
12,099
1! 87*680!
31,170
,° 47,000
49,625
60,325
... 1811,700
... 424,300
... 445,462
... 1,117,136
. .. 1.118,600
See that in
rean'Senator Morrill's exact language,
"none having been coined for neasly
fort;, years." I now hand Mr. Horr a
report of the director of the mint for
1S91. open at page 21*. and call liis at-
tention to the number of silver dollars
poined during the forty years next
prior to 1873, and hand to the stenog-
rapher a copy of that report of the
mint, si owing the nymbef of siiver dol-
lars coined for each of these years, to«
bo inserted at this point In my ro-
nfarks: •
Silver Coined from
Silver j Silver j
Dollars
Coined. Year.
$ 1,000 1855. „
300 1856..
61,005 1857..
173,000 1&59..
1S4,618 1860..
165,100 1861..
20,000 1862..
24,500 1863..
169,600 1864..
140,750i 1865..
15.000 1866..
62,600 1867..
1850 ...... 47,500' 1868..
1851 0. 1,300 1869..
IS52 1,10011870..
1853 46,110 1871..
1854 ° 33,140 1S72..
Look at them, Mr. Horr.
1859 tlmre were 636,000 of them coined;
in 1S60, 733,000 of them joined; in 1871,
1.117,000 of them; in 1872, 1.118,000,
passed a law for coining smaller silver ! and in all those forty years, silver dol-
coins of less value than either the legal J lars in large quantities were coined, ex-
or commercial ratio would indicate. : cept in six years, and ft hen you answer
The>* made such coins token money.
Th" government purchased the silver
Jul-al-ail-dln epoch, the . at its commercial value and covered the
to be 7 to 1. In 1351 ! lut° the public treasury. They
Mr. Harvey—We were discussing the
question of whether the act of 1873 was j
secretly and surreptitiously passed, •
and I supposed that Mr. Horr would
address himself to the fact that I called
his attention to, that none of the peo- ,,
pie in the United States, Including the ;
newspaper reporters at Washington, j
lyiew that'the bill had passed.
Senator Thurman on Feb. 15, 1878, in
debate, said: "I cannot say what tool<
gave no free coinage to silver used in
such subsidiary coins.
Did Franco Mako ni.l?
1 nis is all history, which is disputed
by* none.
I know "Coin" sats in his "Financial
16 aaya 01 U1B ""* I School," page 10, "DurinK this struggle
the ratio tor a long J fo get moro sjiveri France? made°a bid
e country of Mohurs j for ,t by pstablishln(, a'r„,|0 of ]5«, to
I 1. rfhd as our ratio was 16 to 1, this
1 made silver worth 103.8 cents when ex-
| changed for .gold, and as gold would
I answer the same purpose as silver for
: money, it was found our silver wfis
leaving us. ^o congress, in 1853, had
our silver coins made or light weight
• to prevent their being exported."
| "Coin," as usual, is not accurate.
1 France did not bid for our silver by
making her ratio at 15^ to 1 when ours
was 16 to 1. France established the
ratio o£ 15V£ to 1 in 1 Sf>3.
France tried ?o maintain both metals
as circulating mediums from 1113 t*
187? on°some ^ gal ratio, and between
again it went back to 6Vfc; but again
It went up in India to 7. Now he gives
the limit in the jlays of Akbar the Great
9V6 to 1, then went up to 9, and was
for a long time 9. The East India com-
panies lowered the value of silver and
put It 10 to 1; in the days of the India
company that was
time. In 1769 in the country of Moh
the i'atio was down0 to 14 to 1. I say
now silver was cheaper all the while
In Bombay and Bengal from 1493, 10
to 1. o 0
Mr. Harvey—To something mat oc-
curred in this audience when Mr. Horr
failed to reply to what Senator Allison
and others said as to the manner of
the passage of the act of 1873i Mr^ Horr
said that your'enthusiastic expression
or manner was derogatory, or implied
that it was, to your character or intel- |
ligence and that It was a failing of
men ^vho had the silver craze. Mr. j
Horr, I want to answer that right now. '
Tljere'have been periods in the history
me, Mr. Horr, tell us why Mr. Morrill
"said there were none coined; and If he
was not truthful about that what im-
' portance should be attached to what he
said about the silver dollar being pur-
posely omitted in the bill?
The secret of all this is that Senator
Morrill is a bank stockholder and in-
surance company money-lender, and
when giving utterance to the statement
that serves his personal interest he has
not had a strict regard for the truth.
I wanl to nail this statement at this
point; not only to discredit the leHer
that Senator* Morrill wrote and that
was read here, but to nail that same
statement that Is being industriously
published all over the country, and
that has been reiterate here in Chicago,
that there*were no silver dollars coined
for many years prior to 1873. There It
Is before Mr. Horr in the report of the
director of the mint, and as published
in my remarks. I now pause for Mr.
Horr to justify Senator Morrill in mak-
ing the statement that no silver dollars
had been coined for nearly forty years
prior to the act of 1S73. (Applause.)
Customer (in olieap restaurant);
Oive me a bet^fstetik wflth mushrooms.
Waiter (lordly to ctnjk): Slaughter
in de pan, wid funny gated toadstools!—
New York Weekly.
Miss; Wliy do you object tebaseball
bn Sunday? The Ilev. Mr. Rooter:
Because it i& impossible for me tc\ at-
tend on that day.—Chicago Tribune.
.limmie: Auntt Whift is meant by
an "open" bicycle race? Aunt* Sarah:
Bow-legged riders, Of course! #
"Will you love mo when I'm gone?"
asked Mr. Linger I^onger of hi£ sweet-
heart. "If you'll go soon," replied the
faithful girl, ^eitli a yawn.—*Exchange.
—• — Q —■
A J^yn-dirate of Mounter*.
Here nre tho tumies <>f tlio Abominable trio that
compose it, hated and abhorred by man uud
woman kind dyspepsia, billiousnoM and consti-
pation. What in tko most su ti'°sfuI wny to
attark ana squelch these united munsUtrs? Tako
Hostetter's Stomach Bittern, and they wilt pull
up Btukes nnd muko tracks for parts unknown,
lunvin^ no tracks behind. Tho Bitters also oxtor-
iminates mainrin, rheumatic und kidney trouble
and nervous ailment.
"I'm glad you eamtf}" said the mos-
quito; "I have been nearly worked
to death.'1 "Well, you can get a good
rest now," answered the fly. "I'll
takcfccnre of him till ho gets ready to
get up."—Indianapolis Journal.
Old Boy—I am very proud of my
children. Old Bach (uneasily)—Is that
so? Old Boy—Yes; tfley never say
anything clever.—N.. Y. I herald.
"Pa, what is a diplomat?"
"A diplomat, my son, is a liar who
doesn't get found out."—Puck.
"I suppose," said the female horned
hor^e, "1 am something of a gnu wo-
man myself."—Chicago Tribune.
of the United States when we have had • «
. .. _ . . , • those dates Franco changed tile mint
crazes; one of those first instances
when you might have used .that lan-
•guage was just preceding the battl
of Lexington and Bunker Hill
U*oud
. ----- o . | applause.) There have been two or
place In the house, but know when this j ^ ,nstances slncei and there ,8'aJ.
bill was pending In the, «e#ate we othpr ^ (appiave) when the in.
thought It was simply a 1,111 to rerorm of ,he Amerl*an poople lntenrJa
the mint, regulate coinage, and Jlx up
one thing or another, and there was j
not a single man in the senate, I think, j
unless a member of the committee f. md
which the bill came, who had the j
slightest idea that it was ev n a squint p
toward demouetizStion."—Congression-
al Record, Vol. 7, Part XI, Forty-fifth
i Congress, second session, p. 1,064.
Senator Allison, on Feb. "15, 1878,
said: "BuJ when the secret histouy of
this bill of 1873 conies to be told it will
disclose the fact that the house of rep- |
| resentatives Intended to coin both gold
j and silver, and inte°ndedoto place both
l metals upon the French relation in-
\ stead of on our own, which was the
[ true scientific position in reference to
this subject in 1873, but that bill after"-
ward was « doctored." (Applause.)—
! Congressional .Record, Vol. 7, Part II,
second session, p. 1,058.
h I call Mr. Horr's special attention to
what I.Jiave Just read. There is the
testimony of a man who was present
and among the men who were jleceived
price of the gold marc 140 times and
the mint.price of the silver nntro ^."il 1.,
times, anTl thus changed the ratio a |
large number of times, and 41 17M she
fixed her legal ratio at 14Vfe to 1. At
that time she rated silver loo high, ami
while England became a gold-standard
to restore the integrity of this nation . FrIMlc1eonb,ec^* " 8ih^:s,a"-
,nd take it away frt>m the,men w1>o are fla"1 one" „In. S03 8he1 1°we,re'1 tho '"
now driving us upon thcreefg of dis- : *al vaue of silver and fixed her ratio
aster, and hurling ridicule at- us be- , at ]5% t0 wherc u ls nominally to-
cause we exercise the rights 8f Ameri-* da^ b,lt lQ ls74 fllle thp frf
can citizens to investigate, (Cries of! c.olnaSe of Bllver_ altogether. Her? Is
*Hear,0hear," and applause.) Wje will
ICONTINUICD NKXT WKKK. \
WHEN DICKENS WAS EDITOR.
n
^3ut I had not finished with my proofs
Proofs precede comments. Plain facts * —Mr. Allison, at nresent senator from
ftrp mnrp elimipnt than wnrrls Iowa °
are more eloquent than words.
I have before me on this table the
files of the Chicago Tribune for 1873.
(Laughter.) I want Mr. Horr 'and his
assistants to inspect it. I turn first to
Jan. 18, 1873. This bill that was sup-
posed to have had in it a silver dollar
that would float around the world was
passed in the Senate on Jan. 17, so that
the morning papers of the 18tli would
.contain any news, if "there were any,
showing that the fundamental laws of
the government had been changed. The
only reference that appears In tha^
paper ls in a press telegram from
Washington, which is this: "Mr. Sher-
Passed, did you say in your opening,
without the least taint of suspicion of
its integrity? (Long applause.) And
H>at the record^ would demonstrate
that you were right?
Mr. Horr—I desire to say to the gen-
tleman that just what one congress-
man or another may ftave said about
this bill I fteither know nof care
(laughter and applause). I know this,
that the men composing the coifgress
of 1873, personally and individually,
have every one of them dsnied othe
statement of corruption that .you'
charge in the passage of this bill"
man called up the bill to revise and 'inow that they have nothing but in-
amend tlfe laws relating to mints, assay uendoes to base the charge upon. I
— * " " know that they cannot mak e a DRsa
unless they llrst prove that no decency
was left in the American congress in
1873 (laughter). Oh, 1 know what I
offices, and coinage of the United
States,which was amended and passed."
That Is all; not another word.
Annertfl It Was Minundoratoo«L
No Information of the fact that one
of the money metals of the United
fitaUs was struck down was con-
veyed to the people through file news- twenty-five years (cries of "No, no!"),
papers of the country. (Applause.) Harvey proposes to do that.
The reporters at Washington did not
know it; the congressmen as a wholel
did not know it. The money of th# peo
arraign you and these men you defend
for their acts, and when they come
•back at us with ridicule we will answer [
them with argummits. (Applause, and j
cries of "Hear, hear!") When we have
presented an argument to you so strong
fts that "of Senators Allison and Hoi-
man, Grant, Blaine, and others, tliat
that act was a fraud, and you fail to
answer it inteliigestly, you cannot an-
swer it with ridicule. (Cries of "Hear,
hear!" and applause? and renewed ap-
plause.) I had intended to quote from
Mr. Blaine, Garfield, and many'others
on this subject, all in harmony with
.what I had read (ories of "Go" on, go
on!") but Mr. Horr's utter retreat in
answering what I have read makes it
unnecessary. (Applause.)
I now come nearer nome ror testi-
mony. The Chicagd Tribune of Feb. '
23, 1878, says: "In 1873-74, as it was two ;
years and more later discovered, the
coinage of this silver dollar was for-
bidden, ajitl silver dollars were demon-
etized by law. This act was done se-
cretly and stealthily, to the profound
Ignorance of thowe who voted "for it, J
and of the president who ifpproved it;
hacL without the knowledge of the ! -
coifntry, removed one of the landmarks and by letter, and by telegrams, since
of tfie government; had. under cover ol the last sessio8 to put .into the record
darkness, abolished the constitutional j what Blaipe, Garfield, Senator Beck, of
dollar, and had Arbitrarily, and to tho . Kentucky; Senator Ingalls of Kansas,
immense injury of the people, added anl' many others have said officially,
heavily to every form of indebtedness, ' either to the effect that the act of 1S73
public and private." (Applause.) i was the result of gross Ignorance on tl>vj j
Gold standard men, this was what subject, or that it was the result of
your beloved Chicago Tribune said fraud.
(laughter) when it was honest. It now j 'n view of the important topics
repeats wha^ Mr. Horr says, and is yet before us, and the limited number of
tfie exact fact. The experience of the
United States in ay effort to establish
and rfaintaln a double standard has
been the expefience of tho entire world.
During "the nfneteenth century all the
great civilized and commercial nations
on^tlie face of the gloUe have adopted
the gold standard, and "have done so
without discounting silver* as money,
but every one of them refused free coin- j
age to Bilver at any ratio.
The table of ratios given by "Coin," J
page 34 of his book, shows that from
1803, when France established the ratio, j
of 15'^° to 1, up to 1874, when she
stopped the free coinage of silver, in
only one -instance, and that was i&
1 ' t, did the commercial and legal ra-
..-3 between the two n^etals agree. In
only that one instance was the^atio of
silver as 15% to 1.
What Senator Morrill Said.
Mr. Harvey—When I reply to the es-
say which Mr. Horr has just read my
answer will be full and complete. Cut
I must pause for a moment to deal.with
a question which you w'ill recognize
the importance of. It is by way of sum-
mary of the debate at the last session.
I have had many requests, both orally
uKOBtiin Sula Wns .Not ^Allowod
• to KIkii Ills Article*.
Not signing .our articles had two
evil consequences to us, • tha young
men," says (Jeorgo Augustus Sala in
"Things I Have Seen." In tho first
jilae<$, when i:n attractive article ap-
peared in HousehtTll Words, which
migUt have been tho w<?rk of either
ono of mv colleagues or of myself,
people used to say that MDickens was
at his best that week," whereas in,
many cases in that particular number
ho had not written a single lin«•
capt tho weekly installment of tho
••C hild's History."
I can say for ono, that I materially
suffered from this systematic suppres-
sion of my0 name, for about 185& or
1854 I purchased at Nl. Dentil's book
stall, in tho Palais Royal, Paris, a
work in French, purporting to be tho
•^oveaux rentes do Charles Dick-
ens," translated by M. Amedc^ Pichot,
and among the ton or twelve stories
in this collection I recognized transla-
tions of my, own -,Key of tho Street,"
an?l, I think, of another article of my
writing. Now this, judffod from tbe
present standard of literary ethics,
was decidedly unfair \o tho rising
authors who served their # chief with
so much enthusiastic loyalty.
In tho next place, by the strict
preservation of the anonymous, Dick-
ens unwittinglv retarded not only tho
litenfry, but also the commercial pros-
pects of his staff. I did not repine.
Still, now in my old ago, I cannot bo
blind to tho fact 4hat I began to work
with Dickons in 1851, and that when
I temporarily sovered® iny connection
with him, about seven years after-
ward, I was whoyy and entiroly un-
known tojtho general public.
Mrs. Winks—So your friend (ieorgo
is married. I hope he is happy.
Mi. Winks—JIappy is no name for it.
His home is a little paradise on earth.
Ilis wife is an accomplished cook.—N.
Y. Weekly.
Householder; Here, drop my coat
aud get out. "Hurglar: You shut up,.
or I'll wake your wife and give her
this letter you forgot to post.—De-
troit Tribune.
TlrkPt* at Reduced
Will be sold via the Nickel Plate rt*id
on occasion of the meeting of the Her-
man Catnolic Societies #of tho United
States at Albany, N. Y,, Sept. 15th. to
18th. For further information address
J. Y. Calahan,0Gen'l Agent, 111 Adams
St., Chicago.
Judge Gore; Ilow did the silver de-
bate come out. Did the Colonel carry
his p'int? Major* Bleed: Carry his
p'int! Sail, tho Colonel never carries
less than a quart.—Cincinnatti En-
quirer.
of Good Health is
The City of Explorer*.
Philadelphia plumes herself on being
tho ••city of explorers," and tho dis-
tinction seems deserved. Dr. Donald-
son Smith's explorations in Africa,
the work0 of tho university of Penn-
sylvania in Assyria and Mercer's
investigations of tho valley of
tho Delaware river and his study of
Pure, Rich Blood
A fid the surest,0 best way to
purify your blood is to take ^ ^
Hood's • Sarsaparilla
IDOD POISON
A SPECIALTY
Itlurjr I'OISON p«rrnnnont!f
loured In lfttow dAjs. Ton oftBMtraatedN
IhomeforBamo price under *nmeKimrnu-
f ty. If y<>uprefor tocomehere wo willcon-
tract to p.iT railroad fnrcand hotel bills,and
noftharp'f.lf wo fail to cure. If you hare taken mcr*
cury, iodide iititiiMli, and at111 Imvo aches and
painn. MucousV tcl es In mouth, Sore Throat,
]'1 in p 1 cm, Copper Colored NpotH* Ulcers on
any partofthe body, IlsiirorEyebrows fullinjr
out. It Is this Kccoiidnry Itl ooi* roisoff
wo to euro. Wo solicit the most obstl*
Date cimes ond challenge the world for A
cane w e cannot core. Thin dL-enao hns alwayt
bafiled the akill of the most eminent pliyHi-
Ciuiia. SftOO.UOO cnplttkl behind our uncondl*
tlonnl (piaranty. Absolute proof* sent scaled on
application. Address COOK HUMKDY (0«,
807 Masonic Temple, CHICAGO, ILL*
Cut out and send this advertlsnment.
am talking about. In order to mako ! publishing a one-sided report of this wor^s remaining at my disposal, I will oth0 prehistoric! eaves in Tennossee,
out their case tftey must make out that i°debate. (Cries of "Good, good," and not do bo, but will try to find space for Peary's quest of tho NoFth polo, Bry-
the best men of this nation were a set 'applause.) A cause that depends on this matter In ray 2.500- word summary | ant's and Hite's disco^ries in La bra-
dor and Rockhill's survey of Northern
Thibet all redound greatly to the
credit of#the Quaker city.
The M
Waterproof
Coat
in tho
WORLD I
SLICKER
The FISII BRAXD SLICKER Is warranted water-
iiv t i udinu.u UKI' i\uv 13 n |ii'iiaiiiuuiK < <'ai, siiu
covers the entire saddle. Hewarcof imhatioos. Don't
buy a eoat if tho " Fish Brand" Is not on It. Illustra-
ted Catalogue tn-e. A. .f ToWKIt, Hoston, Mass.
pie that h d served them well was de-
stroyed, and I now challenge Mr. Horr
to show me anywhere in the news-
paptrs of the United States during the
, passage of the bill which he says has
no Hint of fraud attached to it, where
the people knew that a bill was being
Considered by Congress that was to
destroy as money one-lrtilf of the money
meti.l of the cojmtry, or that they had
passed such a bill.
Mr. tlorr—I desire to say that Mr.
Harvey is mistaken when he says that
the money of Unpeople had been anl a?p!ause);.lt
Stricken down.
Tt e mon£y of the people should be
Just a% good as the money of the nabob,
and jefore I get through I will show the
people of the United States that I have
comci here to defend tha rights of the
millions who live by toll* who live by
werl , whose wages would be cut In two
b/ ti* puugc of this law which mv along together on the ratio, if you will
of villlans, and have Iteen for the last suppression of the truth should not be at the close of the debate to do so. Hut I
do wish In a fey words to dispose of a
few witnesses produced by Mr. Horr to j
the fairness of that legislation. Those j
whom he first mentioned were the :
treasurer, the comptroller of the treas-
ury and the director of the mint, all of
whom soon after the«xpiration of their
terms of office became promliwnt as na-
tional bankers. Outside of these he haB [
called no witnesses who have since 1873'
spoken upon this question, except a let-
ter written in the last few days from an
ex-congrestman In Indiana, whose es-
sential statements are contradicted by
the senate proceedings. With this ex-
ception, he brings only one prominent
witness; it Is Senator Morrill, of Ver-
mont, over whom Mr. Horr pronounces
an eulogy. Mr. Horr says of Senator
Morrill, "if there is an honest pure man
insiae tne United States, it is Justin S.
Morrill." I am going to sliHtter the rep-
utation of Mr. Horr's New England Idol.
Mr. Horr reads an extract from a let-
ter from Senator Morrill, In which the
latter says that "congress purposely
omitted to provide for the further coin-
Mr. Hitrvey —No, I don't.0
Mr. Horr—He ha attempted 11. I
say 'that every charge th^t he has made
against the members of the American
congress ia false (cries of "No, no!").
The Chairman—It is not proper for
anybody in the audience to interrupt
the speaker.
Mr. Harvey—That is so. Don't do
that.
Mr. Horr—I am well acquainted with
you gentlemen. It is not the first
time I have met you face to face. The
disease «w6ich you men have got al-
ways breaks out by running at the
is one of the symptoms that shows the
silver craze.
Now I proceed. I am not to be di-
verted from completing this debate
some time during this year. I propose
to take up now the question of ratio.
Mr. Harvey—Would you let me finish
on this subject, and then we can go
tho cause of honest men. (Cries and
applause.)
I want the record of this debate to
contain th^proper reference to General
Grant's letter on this subject. It is in
McPherson's H^nd-Book, 1872-76, p.
1X4, in which General Grant, eight
months after the passage of this bill,
says in a letter to Mr. C#wdrey: "We
have got the silver and it will soon
commence coming to the mints, and
with silver and gold we will pay our
public debt." He goes on, and shows,
TiTas plain Taiiguage as you would have
It stated, that he knew nothing of the
passage of tlfte act. Twenty-two years
have passed—it is but a moment in the
flight of time—but we who lived thei^
and who know now how the country
was deceived, will write the criminal
records of these modern Benedict Arn-
olds of America. (Applause).
Chicago, July p2.—The Hor --Harvey
debate was resumed at 1 p. m., and con-
tinued for three hours. The chief point
under discussion was ratios. The con-
densed report is as folloui:
age of the silver dollar." now observe I
A (icneruui Offer*
A (food deacon, in a small Now Eng-
land town, who is on intimate terms
with tho Almighty* and believes that
good deeds should bo promptly recotf-
nizod, pave this encouraging assur-
ance, tho other eVn ing, while "lead-
ing in prayer": "And, O Lord, if Thou
w ilt move tho heart <>4 any young man
to onter Thy service ifs a# missionary,
we will show our approval in |t way
which Thou wilt appreciate." Wheth-
er this offer has been accepted is nol
yet known.
Two Maminjtli Apple Tree*. |
The two largest apple trees in tbz |
state of New York are both near the :
town of Wilson. The largest was |
planted in 1815, and thirty-three full
barrels of apples were once picked
from its brancnes in a single season.
Tho other is on the farm of J. G. O.
Brawn, and yielded twenty barrels of
"choice" fruit and five barrels of
"culls" in the season of 1801.
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