People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 September 1895 — THE BRUTE ACT. [ARTICLE]

THE BRUTE ACT.

GOLD BRUTES NOW ABUSING R. G. HORR. Because He Was Unable to Meet Truth with Truth They Blame Him for Not Falsifying What One Paper Baya. The following from the Boston Herald shows the crafty trickery of the hireling political liar: “If the matter were more serious it would be a subject for annoyance and regret that in the debate going on between Hon. Roswell Horr of Michigan and W. H. Harvey of Illinois, the author of “Coin’s Financial School,” the sound money side of the argument should be taken by one so little fitted as the ex-congressman of Michigan for the discussion of the financial question. As a humorous stump speaker Mr. Horr has few equals, but the currency question is not a problem that can be settled by a joke or a humorous figure of speech. Mr. Harvey is a plausible writer, a skillful dealer in half truths, and so far as study of the subject is concerned, must be many tjmes the superior of his opponent in r&nge and variety of information. To £ave a man put up in public debate which is advertised all over the country who, upon trial, shows that he cannot cope with his adversary, is, with the unthinking at least, to cast discredit upon the side which he is defending.”

Oh, no! It was not a serious matter. Strange, however, that the goldbugs should have made such a hullabaloo about how they were going to break up “Coin’s Financial School” add stop the “silver craze” all at one swoop. Strange, too, that the goldbugs, having their choice of a champion, and being themselves the challengers, should have selected a “stump speaker” like Horr. Were they only joking? Did they think the "School” such a that a jackass could bray it out of existence? If the goldbugs are not posted on the currency question, as the Herald complains of Horr, then why do they set themselves up to educate the American people? If their cause can’t stand in debate, why don’t they just admit that they KhVe no cause? Surely, with all the truth on their side, as they claim, they ought to have somebody with sense enough to prove it. Surely they are not all ignorant. If they are, they should post up. Maybe that after they learned something about the currency question they would be in favor of “free coinage, 16 to 1, without asking any other nation on earth.” Most men want proof, and it is surprising that a man should be a goldbug or anything else and not be able to tell why. Certainly it will east discredit upon the cause Mr. Horr advocates, with the THINKING people, to know that he was unable to cope with his adversary. Mr. Horr was. before the debate, regarded as the ablest defender of goldocracy—and the result shows that he had a weak cause. No doubt about hfs eloquence and all that—but the truth was on the other side, and such being the case, no man on earth could have downed Harvey.