The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-10-03
A CAMPAIGN LIE IMPALED
BISM1R0h'S LETTER no GOVERNOR
CULBERSON A FORGERY.

Ex-Minister to Germany, Andrew ID.
White, Writes to Texas Chief Magistrate
A Caustic Denunciation of Popocratic
Practices-He Tells of Germany's Bitter
Experience With SiIver-Facts VS., Fakes.
Ithaca, N. Y, Oct. 2.-Hon. Andrew
D. White has addressed an open letter
to Governor Culberson of Texas on the
recent Bismarck campaign document,
in the course of which he says:
"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 i'm
portant part of it, as first published, is
a aforgery, the dishonest transaction fois-
ted upon your excellency and Mr.. Bry-
an containing long paragraph favor
ing the immediate and Independent ac-
tion of the United States in favor of BIZ
metallisn, which does not exist in the
original
"Of course I acquit you both Of in
territorial 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 glaring crimi-
nal expedient, and which has not hes
itated to exhibit you and your candi-
date in the light of dupes before sixty
millions of your fellow citizens? Will
this not go far to convince them that
your party having failed in argument,
has found it necessary to resort to the
cheapest of frauds In order to bolster
up the cause of silver monometallism,
which, for some time past, has been
gradually sinking in all civilized coun-
tries? But even conceding that the let
ter, with or without it's forged interpo-
lation, proves that Prince Bismarck ia
vors the unlimited coinage of silver in
the United States, / respectfully sub
nit that your excellency's confding ap
plicaton to the prince for his opinion
on this subject, and the use of his re-
ply made by yourself and Mr.. Bryan, is
possibly the most farcical event in
American history
MY reasons for this opinion are as
follows: AS minister to Germany in
1879, 1880 and 1881 / carefully observed
the decentralization of silver In Gelma-
ny, which reached it's consummation
during those years. Possibly Mr.. Bry-
an end your excellency will be amazed
to learn that the controlling and direct
ing agent In that demonetization was
none other than your kind correspond
ent. Prince Bismarck himself-at that
time the all-powerful chancellor of the
German empire. Somewhat over half
OF the vast mass of silver thus reduced
to bullion was sold by the German gov
ernment, but the price ran so low that
the sales We're stopped and the German
treasury was left with an enormous
quantity Of this deprecated money in
it's Golfers, amounting, if / remember
Alright to something over one hundred
millions of dollars.
s'Of course shreWd German statesmen
and financers from that day to this,
they could find, weak enough or fool
ish enough to take this bullion off their
hands. A little of it-say $2,000,0O0-
Germany managed to work off upon
poor Egypt under Khedive Tewfik; and
as Bismarck Is really a patriotic, far
sighted statesman, he would naturally
be glad to find a similar dupe on this
side of the Atlantic and to unload the
remainder upon the United States at
say twice it's value. AS a simple mat
ter Of fact, of which / was directly and
officially cognizaEt, Prince Bismarck
utterly declined to take part in any
general scheme of bimetallism without
the cooperation of Great Britain
IL.
Jointly and officially, united in urging
it upon his government
prince Bismarck is, first of all, as
many of his victims besides your ex-
cellency and Mr.. Bryan have had oc-
casion to know, great German patriot,
devoted above all things to Germany's
interests as he understands them.
Hence it was that he demonetized sill
yer and brought Germany on gold
basis; and for the same patriotic rea-
sons, which are now leading the great
Prussian minister of finance, M. De-
witt, to do the same thing. Hence, 1t
was, too, that Prince Bismarck did his
best to exclude from Germany our
American agricultural products and
hence, doubtless, it is that he shows
German patriotism by obligingly sug-
gesting to you, and through you to the
American people, a policy which would
profit Germany to the extent of
about $50 000. 900, to say nothing of 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 personally and the candidate of
your party, who, with you has thus
been 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
fv on that momentous occasion knew
too much to go to the spider for ad-
vice. 1t was the spider that volun-
teered it.
IF you think that the ex-chancellor
writes you in an affectionate spirit to-
wards democracy, or towards the Unit
ed States in general, and Texas in par
ticular, permit me to suggest that you
ask your respected Texas fellow-citi-
zen, Mr. Lasker, for his opinion on this
subject. He WILL perhaps. give tnfor-
nation of which your exeellency ap-
pears to be strangely ignorant respect
ing the treatment of the resolutions of
the United States congress regarding
Mr.. Lasker's eminent brother-resolu-
tions which emanated from a Texan
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