The evening times., 1896-10-03
Ex-Minister Whites Letter iU
Gov. CulbsrS0n of Texas.
DEMONETIZED, IT All, HOME
UnlOaded Some of 1t on Egypt and
Would BE Glad to Get Rid OF the
Remainder in the Mtnts of the
United States-Ex- Chancellor Con
suits Only German Interests.

an open letter to Gov. CulDersou, oil Texas
on the recent Bismarck campaign documen:
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 I,
you. aud that the most important part OF 1t
as first published. is forgery, the dishonest
translation foisted upon your excellency and
Mr.. Bryan containing a long paragraph ia
voring the immediate and independent ac
tion OF the United States in favor OF bi
| metallisn, which does not exist In the
original.
| .'Of course, / acquit you both OF iuten-
tional deceit, believing you both too high
minded TO profit knowingly by this forged
Interpolation. But what are the American
people to think of a cause which resorts tn
such glaring criminal expedicnt. and which
has not hesitated to exhibit you and your
candidate in the light of dupes before sixty
millions of your fellow citizens: Will this
not go far to convince them hat 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
mononietallism, which. for Some time past,
has been gradually sinking in ali civ ilized
| countries?
A RIDICULOUS PROCEEDING.
But even conccdins that the letter, with
| or without its forged Interpolation, proves
| that Prince Bismarck favors the unlimited
coinage of silver In the United States, /
| respectfully submit that your eXcellcncy's
] coDfiding application to the prince for his
oppinion on this subject and the use of
his reply made by yourself and Mr.. Bryan,
is possibly y the most farcical event IN Ameri.
can history.
My reasons for this opinion are Us fol
lows: As minister of the United States to
the German empire in 1879, 1850 and
1851, carefully observed the demopetiZa-
tioD OF silver In Germany, which reached
its contamination during those years. Pos
sibly Mr. Bryan and your excellency Will
be amazed to learn that the collection and
directing agent In that demonet ization was
none other than your kind correspondent
Prince Bismarck himself at that time the
all-powerful chancellor of tire German
empire.
Somewhat over half OF this vast mass Of
silver thus reduced 10 bullion was sold by
the German government. but the price
ran so low that thesaies were stopped. and
the German trea sury was left with an
enormous quantity of this deprecated
money in its Golfers; If I remember rightly,
to SOM ething over one hundred millions of
dollars
WOULD BE GLAD To UNLOAD.
"A little OF it-say $4,000 ,0OO-Germany
managed to work off upon poor Egypt un-
der the Khedive Tewfik: and as Bismarck
is really patriotic. far-sigD:ed states
man he would naturally be glad to find II
similar dupe on this side OF the Atlantic.
and to unload the remainder upon the
United States, at say, twice its market
value.
LAS n simple matter of fact, OF which I
was directly and officially cognizant. Prince
Bismarck utterly declined to take part III
any general scheme of bimetaIiism with
out the cooperation of Great Britain,
though the United States and France,
jointly and officially united in urging it
upon his government. sr-- ...-l..
Prince Bismarck Is first of all. as many
OF his victims besides your excellency
and Mr.. Bryan have sad occasion to know
a great German patriot, devoted above all
things to German interests as he under
stands them. Hence it was that he demore-
tiZed silver and brought Germany on
gold basis, and for the same patriotic
reasons which are now leading the great
Russian minister OF finance Mr.. De Witte
to do the same thing. Hence it was, too.
that Prince Bismarck did his best to ex-
Guide from Germany our agricultural prod
ucts. and hence doubtless il is that he shows
his German patriotism by obligingly sug-
gesting to you, and through you to the
American people, a policy which would
profit Germany to the amount of about S5O,-
O0O, 900, to say nothing OF comfortable
profits to the German bullion brokers
SEEKING A STRANGE ADVISER.
"But where does your request for the |
advice OF Prince Bismarck in a 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 |
cnce-the fly on that momcutous occasion |
knew too much to 60 TO tie spider for adj |
vice; it was the spider that volunteered It,
"If you think the ex-chancellor writes |
you in an affeCtionate spirit toward De- |
or toward the United States In
general, and Texas in particular, permit
me to suggest that you ask your respected
Texas fello w-citizen, Mr.. Lasker for lis
opinion on the SUBJECT. He will, pcrh aps,
give information of which your excellency
appears to be strangely ignorant, respect
ing the treatment Of the resolutions of the
United States Congress rega riding Mr..
Lasker's eminent brother resolutions, which
from a Texan member of that
body. and which were spurned aud re-
turned to the United States scontemptuousiy
by the great German statesman
"How a governor of Texas could, in
crisis like this, ask the advice of foreign
statesman, who had thus grossly insulted
his State and country, utterly passes my
and how candidate for
the Presidency of the United States couid
quote with approval such letter, from Il
man who has thus treated his country, is
equally astonishing.
For Prince Bismarck as the statesman
and the patriot have profound respect:
but he has always held democratic and re-
publican government in contempt: and
having been present more than once .wh cr
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 confiding
letter and the outburSt of Titanic laughter
with which lie would hear tnat he had on |