El Paso International Daily Times (El Paso, Tex.), Vol. Fifteenth Year, No. 176, Ed. 1 Friday, July 26, 1895 Page: 2 of 8
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DEBATE.
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OF PRODUCING GOLD
SILVER DISCUSSEO.
.State* a Workshop In Prodnoln*
-It H«« Alto Be on • Sweat-shop.
W« ore Makloir Todejr the L»at Stand of
frn Men In the Civilisation of tba World.
KlcU Men Controlling I<ogUlat!on.
Chicago, July 25—“Go it husband,
go It bear,” seemed to be the motto In
tbo jiUnoU club today. The audienoe
at the Horr Harvey controversy ap-
peared to be rapidly developing the
feellrgof the western matron whose
fighting enthusiasm on an exciting oc-
casion overcome her other emotions.
The husband andlhe gr!zzly referred
to could hardly have attempted more
thoroughly to rip each other up the
back than did Horr and Harvey this
afternoon.
DEBATE IN DETAIL
Chicago, July 25—In the Hori-
Haivey sliver debate this a^ernoon
Horr began by saying the 412*4 g*ia
silver dol ars, coined between the years
1858 and 1873, wtre all coined at ths
Philadelphia mint and from foreign
silver coins accumulated In the
treasury under the aot of congress
which made them receivable, but did
not permit them to be paid out again.
That was why silver was oolned at less
than bullion value. After 1853 the
government did not ooin a dollar of
oar 6llver coinage for private owner-
ship.
Harvey In reply denied the statement
and declared he could not prove It. He
presented the mint statement showing
that over $400,000 silver dollars had
been oolned at the mint atCarsonCity,
Nev. in 1870,
Harvey then resumed discussion of
the question of primary and credit
money. He said as soon as there was
an over issue of oredit money it caused
miBtrnst of the government’s ability to
pay. This oansed a ran on the treasury
for the redemption of credit money
and the only remedy was to either in-
crease ths amount of promlsary
money or decrease the amount of
credit money. The amount of gold in
the United Stages was estimated at
$400,000,000 to $000,000,000 and of our
oredit money about one billion dollars.
This was too much oredit money, he
said, and accounted for the country’s
financial derangemant. The remedy
was lo increase the primary monsy by
remonetizing silver. Every moment’s
delay would endanger the safety of the
republic.
Mr. Horr replying oalled attention to
the misstatement of coinage at the
Osrson City mint. Instead of $412,-
492. the actual amount was $12,492
Harvey said that he had mistaken
the $ mark for a figure and admitted
his error.
Horr continued by saying up to the
present Harvey had not said a single
word In proof of the aotual subject of
dispute. He had argued at length
that the aot of 1873 was ooncaived In
sin and brought forth in corruption,
but had not brought forth any proof
and could not; did not history show
that a variation of one per cent be
tween the commercial and legal ratio
between gold and silver always drove
the dearer metal out of the market.
Now with a difference of f>0 per cent
v hat evidence was.there i h it the con-
oeusns of civilized nations, Ergland
exoepted,could bring them to a parity;
much less bow the United States alone
oan do it. Horr declared that Harvey’s
object was not so mnoh to build up
silver as to put down gold, as was
shown bv his provision for reduoing
the size o* the gold dollar.
Harvey referring back to the silver
ooiuage between 1853 and 1873 said that
the silver coined at Philadelphia was
coined Into subsidiary money, not
dollars. He added that the premium
on stiver was the premium at Loudon
and that transportation oharges would
more than eat that up, eo bullion own-
ers in thi3 count y would take It to the
mints for oolnage. Taking into oon
slderatioa bank credits and obecks and
amount of money in circulation, the
normal of the amount of money for the
transaction of business, throughout
the country,IJoontlnued Harvey, was
four thousand eight hundred million
dollars. Oat of tht6 one third only was
in money and the rest was borrowed.
The inference was plain: The normal
amount of money which we shonld
have was four thousand eight hundred
million dollars. As matters now stand
banks were loaning and getting interest
on two dollars for every dollar in cir-
culation
Horr said the question whether banks
were a curse to the oountry would be
discussed in its proper place and H*r-
vey wonld probably be dlsgnsted with
himself for having brought the mat-
ter np.
Returning to hla discussion Horr
said that statistics show that 122 mann-
faotured articles have depreciated in
value stnaa 1S79, an average of 7 per
oeut; silver had depreciated 59 per
cent; some other artioles had depre
dated as much, owing to 6peolal oondi
tions. Taking up the statement io
Harvey’s book that it had cost $2 per
ouuoe to produce silver in the United
Spates, Horr oharaoterlzod It a9 non
sense. He presented statistics of dif-
ferent mines collected by M L Scud
der showing that one mine produced
at 13 oents per ounoe; another at 24
cents. Stiver miners wonld not have
continued to mine silver at a cost of
$2 per onnoe when the product was
worth only slxtv oents.
Harvey in tarn said that what Horr
had said about the oost of producing
sliver be oould have said with muob
more toroo with regard to gold. Silver
was only produoed from quartz; most
pound for poand' It oost more to pro-
duce silver than gold or dollar for dol-
lar, 16 to 1. Why did men conttnne to
mine silver at a loss? Why did men
gamble on the board of trade where a
large majority lost? It was the gamb
ling instinot Implanted in the human
breast. Another thing: Much of the
silver produoed was produced lo oon
junction with gold mining, and
a large propoction of the all
vsr produced was the result of at
tempts to develop mines whloh proved
failures in the end and the losers were
disposing of their output to Bave some
thing out of the wreck. There were,
ue deolared, only three or f mr silver
mines In oporation in tha country and
they were having a precarious exist
enoe, liable to does any week.
Harvey then denoanoed Soadder as a
tool of tde banking Interests sent out
to a silver country to detains his
nation.
Horr deolarcd that the statement
that it oost more to prodace a pound of
sliver than a pound of gold was not
tius and had not been true for a great
nuny thousand years. It was true, be
said, as measured in human toil rhat
both gold and silver had deprecLtrd in
value, but sliver bad depreciated muob
mote than gold He then presented
statistics in substantiation of the de
preoiation of gold showing prices for
agrionltnre and labor.
Harvey took op the tubjaoc and pro
oeeded to argne that advances In the
price of grain under a gold basis In the
years quoted had resulted either from
short orops or In increased demand
brought about bz finding new uses
for it.
Hirvey said banks should go out of
the government business instead of the
government going oat of the banking
business. L^t the banks be banks of
deposit and disoonnt and not makers
of money. They are making it now
with a bank oredit and you aro paying
them interest for it. The argument
that confidence and no money Is all
that is wanted, If made byag een-
beoker, wonld be ridiouled by these
same men. Confidence won’t buy any
thing; it will get men io debt to banks,
that is all.
Mr. Horr followed showing the
wealth of the country was greater per
capita now than several deoades ago
Harvey—He says we have Increased
in wealth. Nobody disputes that. The
United States has not only been a
workshop in producing wealth, but it
has been a sweatshop. It has bean
producing wealth, but have the men
who produoed that wealth got
wealth? Rich mea are controlling
the legislation of Amerioa and
the old world and there is
no plan by wbJoh European civilization
oan rise from under it, and when we
have passed fonr or eight years further
along there will bs no way for ns to rise
from urn* er It. We are making in the
United States today the last stand of
free man In the civilization of the
world.
Answering of questions occupied
most of the remainder of the day and
debate being finally ad jonrned at Mr.
Horr’s reqaest till Saturday at 1 p. m.
Daily Time8, Friday, July
A R VESTS OF HAUL
1895/
if: alii
GIRLS PART WITH THEIR CROWN-
ING GLORY FOR A FEW CENTS.
Jewelry and Wlff* Are Made of the Queer-
est <>r Crops—Information, Some of It of
an Odd Character, From a Man Who
Makes Thlniis of Hair.
It was quiio by chance that the writer
of this article happened ou a man who
has.spent his lifetime in the manipula-
tion of human hair, transforming it in-
to wigs, crowns, frizottos and all tho
other kinds of “false” hair and weaving
it into watch chains, eyeglass guards,
bracelets, as well as mounting it in lock-
ers, rings, pins, earrings and brooches
and working it np into all kinds of
floral designs and emblems.
“A charming head of hair on a wom-
an,” ho said, “is a thing of beauty and
indeed a crowning glory, but to a hair
worker it is of little value. Even tho
longest hair, before it has passed through
tho hands of tho manufacturers, is well
oigh worthless. The hair of a woman’s
head which is 30 inches in length, for
example, wonld not bo worth more than
CO cents.
“I remember a woman coming into
my shop one night and offering to sell
her hair. She said she was a seaman’s
wife, and not having heard from him
for many months was in desperate
straits for money. She wanted to know
how ranch I would give her for her hair,
which was of considerable length. I re-
fused to cut it off. I wouldn’t cut any
woman’s hair off’. It is such a demoral-
izing, degrading thing to do, and tho
fact is emphasized when dire need is the
cause of the sale. However, I was in a
position to obtain her assistance until
her husband came back.
“We got our finest descriptions of
hair,” continued the subject of this in-
terview, “from France and Italy, whence,
come all shades of black and brown.
France, again, Germany and Spain sup-
ply the market with brown, light flaxen
and red hair. Gray hair, being found in
every parcel, is described as universal.
“On the continent there are regular
hair harvests. During the summer time
yon can see at every fair peddlers sur-
rounded by girls with their beautiful
hair nicely combed out standing in file
waiting their turn. The peddler has in
his hands a pair of shears, each girl
bends her neck, a few snips, and the
hair is off, tied into awhisp and thrown
into a basket standing at the shearer’s
side. And bow much do yon think that
the girls get for this? A few cents, a
guady trinket or a bright silk handker-
chief.
PAST AUGUST WEATHER.
Record of Weather Observations at El Pmo
for Sixteen Year*.
U. S. Department of Agriculture,
Weather Bureau.
El Paso, Tex., July 25,1895
The chief of the weather bureau dl
reots the publication of the following
of the gold was produoed from plaoer
mines. It oost less, dollar for dollar,
to prodnoe gold than silver. He read
from a book by Alexander Delmar that
data, compiled from the record of ob
serration for the month of Augast,
taken at this station for a period of
sixteen years.
Temperature.—Mean or normal tem-
perature, 80 degrees; the warmest Au-
gust was that ot 1889, with an average of
82 degree*; the coldest August was that
of 1880, with an average of 76 degrees,
the highest temperature daring any
Angnst was 110 degrees on Angn6t 1,
LS84;'he lowest temperature daring any
August was 52 degress on Angagnst 10,
1880. Average date on whioh first
‘‘killing” frost occurred (in au’.nmn)
November 16
Preoipltatlon.— (rain and melted
snow).—Average for the month, 1.74
Inches; average number of days with
.01 of an inoh or more, 9; the greatest
monthly preoipltatlon was3 98inobes
in 1884; the least monthly preoiplta-
tlon was 0 04 Inches in 1889; the great
est amount of precipitation recorded
in any 24 consecutive boars was 2.31
inches on August 25 and 26,1884,
Olonds and Weather—Average nnm
ber of dear days, 15; average nnmber
of partly oloady days, 12; average
number of oloady days, 4.
Wind.—The prevailing winds have
been from the east, the highest velo-
city of the wind daring any Angast was
49 miles on Angnst 21,1894
N. D. Lane,
Observer, Weather Bareau.
Lowt her tor Speaker.
London. July 25—The Dally News,
liberal organs states it understands that
Hon. A. J. Balfonr, leader of the house
nf commons, wishes James William
Lowther to become speaker.
Great Growth of the L. A. W.
Chief Consul Sterling Elliott of the
Massachusetts division of the LAW.
predicts that the organization will have
100,000 members by Ang. 1, 1896.
They Were Too.
She—Why is Mr. Scherzo so sad when
ho sings?
He—I suppose he wants to be in eym
pathy with his andience.—New York
Herald.
Memory is the primary and funda-
mental power without which there
could bo no other intellectual operation
—Johnson.
The Chickihominy had its designa-
tion from an Indian word. Chik-a-maw
hony, “the place of turkeys. ”
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RICHARD A. Me CURDY, President.
Assets,
Surplus,
$204,6388,783 96
$22,52 :9,327.82
INCREASE
Inorease of Income
Increase of Assets
Increase of Surplus
Increase of Insurance
FOR IEE394;
■REMEMBER Tl—IAT-
A Good Record is t ie Best Guarani
AGENTS WANTED. Address
tee lor th e Future.
“Some peddlers travel from cottage
to cottage plying tlieir trade, and the
same performance is gone through. An
average head of hair weighs four ounces.
When sufficient hair is accumulated, it
is sold to the hair manufacturers, who
submit it to a process of cleansing and
sorting into various lengths and shades.
It is then ready for the wigmakers,
who buy it as they require it, paying at
tho rate of 20 cents or so per ounce for
lengths of 10 inches to 12 inches to as
t- uy shillings as there are inches for
leng ’is of 36 inches and upward. The
gve: est demand is for hair from 14 to
24 inches in length. The longest female
hair on record is 72 inches. ”
Tho tycoon of Japan once confiscated
the hair of a whole province and had it
woven into a ship’s hawser over a quar-
ter of a mile long. Then he discovered
that steel ropes were in existence, and
now the cable, composed of the pigtails
of the unfortunate Japs, reposes before
tho eyes of the curious in Bethnal Green
museum.
The gentleman interviewed possesses
a magnificent trophy of hair, in size
some 3 feet long by 2 feet high, in the
form of a basket of flowers, every leaf,
every petal and every stem of which is
composed of cunningly wrought hairs
from the human head. How long it
took to create it, it is impossible to say,
but years unquestionably. He has other
similar displays, mostly, the work of
himself or his son, though they pale in-
to insignificance beside tho monument
of patience in question.
The working of hair into ornaments
has gone out of vogue considerably of
late years, but seafaring men even now
are great lovers of this form of memen-
to. Naturally their favorite designs as-
sume the forms of anchors, compasses
and other things nautical.
One day a gentleman came to the
subject of this article and desired him
in a most mysterious manner to weave
some hair, which he gavo him, into tho
form of a serpent. The head and tail
were to be of gold, and tho tail was to
be fixed into the mouth. The serpent
was to be in two coils and to encircle a
golden heart pierced by a dagger. In
order to thoroughly comprehend the de-
sign he had to be let into tho secret, and
this was the explanation which was of-
fered :
The serpent was to represent the na-
ture of a certain young lady to whom
the hair belonged and who had jilted
the gentleman in question. The golden
heart was symbolic of his pure and
worthy affection, and the dagger showed
how deeply he had been wounded. The
tail of the serpent being in its mouth in-
dicated that in injuring her quondam
lover she had also bitten horself. The
jilted swain was most particular about
the execution of the work, sent it back
twice for alterations and finally refusod
to have it at all, perhaps discovering the
bathos of his scheme.—Boston Post
EDWIN CHAMBER LAIN &CO.,
General Agermts for Texas,
H. GODWIN MITCHELL,
District Agent, SAN ANTONIO.
116 Ei Paso St , El Paso.
Only House in El Paso that has AAmerican Cooking.
Best Family Hotel in
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On parle Franoalse.
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