The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-10-03

New York, Oct. 2.-Ihe hon. Andrew
d. White, writing from Ithaca, has ad-
dressed an open letter to Governor
Culberson, of Texas, on the recent Bis
marck campaign document, in the
course of which he says in part:
You have doubtless already learned
that both you and Mr.. Bryan have
been deceived regarding the letter OF
Prince Bismarck to you. and that the
most important part of it, as first pub-'
lished, is a forgery, the dishonest trans
lation foisted upon your eXcellency and
Mr. Bryan containing a long para
graph favoring the immediate and in
dependent action of the United States
in favor of bimetallism. which does not
exist in the original.
OF course, acquit you both of in
territorial deceit, believing you both too
high minded to profit knowingly by its
forged Interpretation. But we are the
American people to think of cause
which resorts to such glarng crimi-
nal expedient, and which has not hesi-
tated to exhibit you and your candidate
In the light of dupes before sixty mil
lions of your fellow citizens. VIII this
not go far to convince them that your
party, having failed in argument, has
found 1t necessary to resort to the
cheapest of frauds in order to bolster
up the cause of silver monometallism,
gradually sinking in all civilized coun-
tries?
But. even conceding that the letter,
with or without its forged interpola-
tion, proves that Prince Bismarck fav-
ors the unlimited coinage of silver in
the United States, | respectfully sub
init that your eXcelency's confding APP
plication to the prince, for his opinion
on this subject. and the use of his reply
n1nl.. nv vnurSalf and Nr I(rvnp iS
sibly the most farcical event in Ameri-
can history.
MIR. WHITES REASONS.
"My reasons for this opinion are as
follows:
"As minister of the United States to
the German empire in 1879, 1850 and 1881,
] carefully observed the demonetiZa-
tion of silver in Germany, which
reached its consummation during those
years. Possibly Mr.. Bryan and your
eXcellency Will be amazed to learn that
the controlling and directing agent in
that decentralization was none other
than your kind correspondent, Prince
Bismarck himself; at that time the all
powerful chancellor of the German en-
pire.
Somewhat over half of the vast mass
of silver thus reduced to bullion was
sold by the German government; but
the price ran so low tf 1T the sales We're
stopped, and the German treasury was
left with an enormous quantity of this
deprecated money in its Golfers,
amounting. if l remember rightly, to
something over one hundred millions
Of dollars. A little Of it-say two mil
lion dollars-Germany managed to
work off on poor Egypt under the khe-
dive Tewfik; and as Bismarck is really
a patriotic. far-sighted statesman, he
would naturally be glad to find similar
dupe on this side of the Atlantic, and
to unload the remainder upon the
United States at say twice its market
value.
"As a simple matter of fact, of which
] was directly and officially cognizant,
Prince Bismarck utterly declined to
take part in any general scheme of BIZ
metallism without the corporation of
Great Britain, though the United States
and France. Jointly and officially united
in urging 1t upon his government.
prince Bismarck is, first of all, as
many of his victims besides your ex-
cellency and Mr. Bryan have had occa-
sion to know, a great German patriot,
devoted above all things to German in
terests as he understands them. Hence
1t was that he demonetized silver and
brought Germany on gold basis; and
for the same patriotic reasons which
are now leading the great Russian min
lister Of finance, Mr.. DeWitte, to do the
same thing.
AGAINST AMERICAN PRODUCTS.
Hence it was. too, that Prince Bis
marck did his best to exclude from
Germany our American agricultural
products, and, hence doubtless, it Is
that he shows his German patriotism
by Obligingly suggesting to you, and
through you to the American people.
policy which would profit Germany
to the amount of about fifty millions
of dollars, to say nothing of comfort
able profits to the German bullion
brokers.
But where. where does your request
for the advice Of Prince Bismarck, in
a matter so vital to the United States
leave you personally, and the candidate
of your party. who, with you, has been
thus deluded? Since the spiders ia
nous invitation to the fly there has
been nothing of this sort SO pathetic; {;
but there Is touching difference, the
fly on that momentous occasion knew
too much to go to the spider for ad-
vice. 1t was the spider that volun-
teered 1t.
IF you think that the chancellor
writes you In an affectionate spirit to-
wards Democracy or towards the
United States in general. and Texas in
particular, permit me to suggest that
you ask your respected Texan fellow
citizen. Mr.. Lasker for his opinion on
this subject. He will, perhaps, give
information of which your excellency