Hon. W. H. Harvey, author of Coin's Financial School, is a gentleman I
have known for many years, and for as many years as we have known each
other, we have been warm personal friends. Toward the man I entertain
the greatest respect; toward his theories I regard them as idle,
visionary sophistries as unstable as "the house that was built upon
sand." The student who really gives thought to the financial question
will early discover that Coin's Financial School rests upon a false
foundation and the superstructure must surely fall when beat against by
the irresistable and truth capped waves of facts and history. No better
answer can be given to these misleading and false theories than a plain,
truthful statement of our coinage laws and the effect of legislation
relating thereto. Fellow citizens, whatever else we may be, we are all
Americans, either by birth or adoption; we respect and love the same
flag and the undying principles which it represents. We do not differ in
a desire for good government. We may differ and differ widely, however,
in our opinions and ideas as to what laws will insure the greatest
blessings to the people of this nation. Fortunately for the Republican
party the American people are a reading and a thinking people, and
the problems of the present campaign are now on trial before a jury
of 70,000,000 of honest peers, not one of whom am I willing to believe
would wantonly strike down the flag of our country, or any of its
cherished institutions.