n as a life member of the Manhattan
Athletic Club, due strangely enough to a speech of his denouncing
certain forms of sport, was referred to, and this led him to express
his contempt for prize-fighting, and then he said on the subject of
horse-racing: ]

The only objection I have to horse racing is its cruelty. The whip
and spur should be banished from the track. As long as these are
used, the race track will breed a very low and heartless set of
men. I hate to see a brute whip and spur a noble animal. The good
people object to racing, because of the betting, but bad people,
like myself, object to the cruelty. Men are not forced to bet.
That is their own business, but the poor horse, straining every
nerve, does not ask for the lash and iron. Abolish torture on the
track and let the best horse win.

_Question_. What do you think of the Chilian insult to the United
States flag?

_Answer_. In the first place, I think that our Government was
wrong in taking the part of Balmaceda. In the next place, we made
a mistake in seizing the Itata. America should always side with
the right. We should care nothing for the pretender in power, and
Balmaceda was a cruel, tyrannical scoundrel. We should be with
the people everywhere. I do not blame Chili for feeling a little
revengeful. We ought to remember that Chili is weak, and nations,
like individuals, are sensitive in proportion that they are weak.
Let us trust Chili just as we would England. We are too strong to
be unjust.

_Question_. How do you stand on the money question?

_Answer_. I am with the Republican party on the question of money.
I am for the use of gold and silver both, but I want a dollar's
worth of silver in a silver dollar. I do not believe in light money,
or in cheap money, or in poor money. These are all contradictions
in terms. Congress cannot fix the value of money. The most it
can do is to fix its debt paying power. It is beyond the power of
any Congress to fix the purchasing value of what it may be pleased
to call money. Nobody knows, so far as I know, why people want
gold. I do not know why people want silver. I do not know how
gold came to be money; neither do I understand the universal desire,
but it exists, and we take things as we find them. Gold and silver
make up, you may say, the money of the world, and I believe in
using the two metals. I do not believe in depreciating any American
product; but as value cannot be ab