The San Francisco call., 1896-10-03
WHITE WRITES Of
b|SMARCK'S SCHEME
Willing to Unload Ger
many's Silver Upon the
United States.
rs NOT A BIMETALLIST
Purely Selfish Motives Actuated
the Prince in the Recent
Utterances.
POINTED HISTORY IS GIVEN.
Facts Show That the Ex.Chancellor
Caused the Demon etiz alton Of
the Whit, Metal.

NEW YORK, N. Y, Oct. Z.-Ihe hon.
Andrew D. White, writing from Ithaca.
has addressed 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 de-
ceived regarding the letter of Prince Bis
marck to you, and that the most impor-
tant part of it. as first published. is for
gerry, 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.
sOf 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 Ameri-
can people to think of cause which re-
sorts to such glaring criminal expedient,
and which has not hesitated TO exhibit
YOU and your candidate in the light of
dupes before go, 900, 900 of your fellow-citi-
zens?
..But even conceding that the letter, with
or without forged Interpolation, proves
that Prince Bismarck favors the unlim-
tied coinage of silver in the United States,
I respectfully submit that your Excel
lency'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 opinio are as fol-
lows: As Minister ofthe United States to
the German empire in 1879, 1880 and 1881,
l carefully observed the decentralization
of silver in Germany which reached its
consummation during those years. Pos
sibly Mr.. Bryan and your Exeellency will
be amazed to learn that the controlling
and directing agent in that demonetiza-
ton was none other than your kind COR
respondent, Prince Bismarck, himself. at
that time the all-powerful Chancellor OF
the German empire.
Somewhat over half of the silver thus
reduced to bullion was sold by the Ger
man Government; but the prices ran so
low that the sales were stopped and the
German treasury was left with an enor-
nous quantity OF this deprecated money
in its Golfers, amounting, IL | remember
rightly, to something over $100, COO, 600. A
little of it-say 50, ,600, ,00O-Germany man.
aged to work off upon poor Egypt under
the Khedive Tewfik, and as Bismarck Is
really a patriotic, far-slghted 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 cogni-
zant, Prince Bismarck utterly declined to
take part in any general scheme OF
bimetallism 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 sad occasion to
know, great German patriot, devoted
above all things to German interests as he
understands them. Hence it was he who
demonetized 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 exclude from Germany our Ameri-
can agricultural products, and hence,
dou btless, 1t is that he shows his German
patriotism by obligingly suggesting to
you, and through you to the American
people, a policy which would profit Ger
many to the amount of about fifty mil
lions of dollars. to say nothing of the
comfortable profits to the German bullion
brokers.
IF you think that the ex-Chanceilor
writes you in an affectionate spirit toward
Democracy, or toward the United States
in general, permit me to suggest that you
ask your respected Texas fellow-citlzen,
Mr.. Lasker, for his opinion on this sub
iect. He will, perhaps, give information
OF which your Excellency seems to be
strangely ignorant, respecting the treat
ment of the resolutions of the United
States Congress regarding Mr.. Lasker's
eminent brother-resolutions which ema-
mated from Texan member Of that body,
and which were spurned and returned to
the United States contemporary by the
great German statesman.
"How 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
comprehension; and how 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 Bis
marck as the statesman and patriot /
have profound respect, but he has always
held Democratic and Republican govern
ment in contempt"