The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1896-10-15
Dupes of Bismarck.
Culbers0n and Bryan made Laughing Stock
Through the World. Germany mas Vast Mass
of Silver to Sell.

ment, in the course OF which ne says in
part:
s'You have doubtless already learned
that both you and MI. Bryan have been
deceived regarding the letter OF Prince Bis
marck to you, and that the most impor-
tant part of it, as first published, is a
forgery. the dishonest translation foiSted
upon your excellency and Mr.. Bryan con-
tanning long paragraph favoring the i'm
mediate and independent action of the
United States in favor of bimetallism
which does not exist in the original.
''Of course acquit you both of inten-
tional deceit, believing you both too high
minded to profit knowingly by this forged
Interpolation.
But what are the American people to
| think of cause which resorts to such a
glazing criminal expedient, and which has
not hesitated to exhibit you and your
candidate in the light of dupes before co.
600, 900 of your fellow citizens?
evil this not go far to convince them
that your party, having failed in argu-
! ment, has found it necessary to resort to
the cheapest of frauds in order to bolster
up the cause of silver mono metallism
which, for some time past, has been grad
ually sinking in all civilized countries?
''But, even conceding that the letter
proves that Prince Bismarck favors the
unlimited coinage of silver in the United
States, | respectfully submit that your
excellency's confding application to the
prince, for his opinion on this subject and
the use of his reply made by yourself and
Mr.. Bryan, is possibly the most farcical
event in American history.
''My reasons for this opinion are as
follows
LAS minister of the United States to
the German Empire is 1879, 1880 and 1881,
| carefully observed the demonstration
of silver in Germany, which reached its
consummation during those years.
'Possibly Mr.. Bryan and your excel
| lency will be amazed to learn that the
controlling and directing agent in that
| decentralization was none other than your
kind correspondent, Prince Bismarck him
self, at that time the all powerful chancel-
| lor of the German Empire.
| 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 that the sales were stopped,
and the German treasury was left with an
enormous quantity of this deprecated
| money IN its Golfers, amounting, if | re-
member rightly, to something over $780,
| 900. 900
"Of course, shrevd German statesmen
| aud iInanciers from that day to this have
been looking around to see whom
they could find weak enough or foolish
! enough, to take this bullion off their
| hands. A little of it-say -, 600, 000-
| Germany managed to work off upon poor
Egypt under the khedive Tewiik and as
Bismarck is really a patriotic, far sighted
statesman, lie would naturally be glad to
find d similar dupe on this side OF the At
lantic, and to unload the remainder upon
the United States at say twice its market
| value.
LAS 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 cooperation of Great Britain,
though the United States and France,
Jointly and officially united in urging it
upon his government
prince Bismarck is, first of all, as
many of his victims besides your excel
lency and Mr.. Bryan have had occasion to
know, great German patriot, devoted
above all things to German interests as he
understands them.
'Hence it was that he demonetized sill
yer and brought Germany on gold basis;
and tor the same patriotic reasons which
are now leading the great Russian minis
ter of finance, Mr.. De Witto, to do the
same thing.
"Hence it was, too, that Prince Bis
marck did his best to exclude from Ger
many our American agricultural products,
and hence, doubtless, it is that he shows
his German patriotism by obligingly sug-
costing to you, and through you, to the
American people, a policy which would
profit Germany to the amount of about
$50, 600, 600, to say nothing of the com
| Portable profits to the German bullion
brokers'
| But where does your request for the
advice of Prince Bismarck in matter SO
vital to the United States, leave you per
sonally, and the candidate of your party,
who, with you, has been thus deluded?
Since the spiders famous invitation to
the fly there has been nothing Of this sort
SO pathetic; but there is a touching differ
ence, the fly on that momentous occasion
knew too much to go to the spider for adj
vice. 1t was the spider that volunteered it,
eff you think that the ex chancellor
writes you in an atfectionate spirit toward
democracy, or toward the United States
in general, and Texas in particular, per-
NIT me to suggest that you ask your re-
spected Texan fellow citizen, Mr.. Lasker
| tor his OPINION on this subject
He will, perhaps, give information Of
which your excellency appears to be
strangely ignorant, respecting the treat
ment of the resolutions of the United
States congress regarding Mr.. Lasker's
eminent Observation-Disclosures which ema-
mated from Texan member of that body
and which were spurned and returned to
the United States contemptuously by the
GREAT German statesman
GLOW governor of Texas could, in
crisis like this, ask the advice of a foreign
statesman who had thus grossly insulted
his State and country, utterly passes my
apprehension; and how a candidate for
the presidency of the United States could
| quote with approval such letter from a
man who has thus treated his country is
equally astonishing.
''For Prince Bismarck, as the states
man and the patriot, l have profound re-
spect; but he has always held democratic
and republican government in contempt,
and having been present more than once
when he has discussed the views of those
from whom he differs, | can well imagine
the smile, so child-like and bland with
| which he welcomed YOUR eXcellency's CON