The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-04
He Did More than Any other states
man to Demonetize hit Metal
i'm His Own unit
WHAT ANDREW D. WHITE SAYS
AN OPEN LETTER To GOVERNOR
CULBERSON, OF TEXAS,
Showing that the sIrOn Chancellor,
Who Is Misguided by Bryan, Is a
Prince of Gold Bugs.

NEW YORK, Oct. 3.-Andrew d. White,
ex-President OF Cornell University and ex-
minister to Germany. has written an open
letter to Governor Culberson, of Texas,
, concerning the letter of Prince Bismarck,
which was twisted into an Endorsement
of free and unlimited silver at 16 to 1 until
the inaccuracy of the translation was ex-
posed. President White says:
You have doubtless already learned that
both you and Mr.. Bryan have been de-
ceived regarding the letter of Prince
Bismarck to you, and that the most i'm
portant part of it. as first published, is
a forgery. If you are not already aware
of that fact allow me to commend to you
that eminent Democratic authority, the
New York World, of Sept %, which gives
the original letter in German, with an
honest translation, side by ide-the trans
lation which you have used contain
ing a long paragraph favoring the imme-
date and independent action of the
United States in favor of bimetallism which
does not exist in the original.
Granting, as 1 do, that you and Mr..
Bryan have been duped as regards this
letter, what Justification can be found in
1t, whether with or without the forged in
terpolation, for the unlimited coinage of
silver? What the letter as published sup
ROAIo 10 800
suit of unlimited silver coinage. under one
of the simplest laws of nature, is silver
monometallism, which neither Prince Bis
marck nor any other statesman in the
civilized world of the slightest authority
has ever supported or would ever support
for a moment.
But even conceding that the letter,
with or without it's forged Interpolation,
proves that Prince Bismarck favors the
-1;~1;+o ITO 90 cilryar ;n tho JTnitod
States, L respectfully submit that your
Excellency's confiding 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:
"As minister of the United States to the
German Empire in 1879, 80 and 81, l care
fully observed the demonstration of sill
yer in Germany. which reached its con-
summation during those years. My in
struotions from our own government, and
my personal feeling as an American citi-
zen, led me to watch the matter closely.
A SILVER DEMONETIZER.
Possibly Mr.. Bryan and your Ex-
cellency will be amazed to learn that the
controlling and directing agent in that de-
monetization was none other than your
kind correspondent, Prince Bismarck him
5Clb dl lIiL tililC tAC dI-pOWSiLd1 SIidil-
cellor of the German Empire. He ordered,
saw it carried out. and brought German
finance upon a gold basis, where it still
remains.
"Of course, shrewd German statesmen
and financiers 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 81, 000, 000-Germany man
,~oJ e. xr0r1x ~ ,,,on noor I,-~vr+ e-1
as Bismarck is really a patriotic. far
seeing statesman, he would naturally be
glad to find another similar dupe on this
side of the Atlantic. and to unload the re-
mainder upon the United States at, say
twice it's market value.
Next to the great silver mine monopo-
lists in our own country, whose interests
Mr.. Bryan and yourself are supporting,
he will, doubtless, be the happiest of men
if our people are deluded into the policy
your party supports. of thus playing their
game by giving a fictitious value to silver.
LAS d simple matter of fact. of which
/ was directly and officially cognizant,
Prince Bismarck utterly declined to take
part in any general scheme of bimetal-
lism without the cooperation of Great
Britain, though the United States and
France, jointly and officially, united in
urging it upon his government. And when
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expert of high character and qualifica-
tions, Hon. George Walker. afterward
Consul-general of the United States at
Paris, with express instructions to discuss
the subject with the Chancellor, Prince
Bismarck refused to enter into any dis
cussion himself, or ven to receive Mr..
Walker at all.
Prince Bismarck is, first of all, as many
of his victims. beside 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 de-
monetized silver and brought erma on
a gold basis. and for the same patriotic
reasons. which are now leading the great
Russian Minister of Finance, Mr.. De White,
TO do the same thing.
Hence it was. too, that Prince Bismarck
cid his best to exclude from Germany our
American agricultural PRODUCTS, especially
our pork and potatoes. under the plea of
trichinae in one and Colorado bugs in the
other: and hence doubtless it is that he
suggesting TO you. and through you to the
American people, q policy which would
profit Germany to the amount of about
$4,000. 600, to say nothing of comfortable
profits to the German bullion brokers'.
And as your Excellency attributes so
much Importance to Prince Bismarck's
opinions regarding financial policy. why
not yield an equal belief to his ~well-known
views regarding Industrial policy? You
are, of course, aware that. as Chancellor
of the empire and chief of the Pr1ssian
Ministry, he was an eminent and UNI
compromising champion of a protective
tariff. Why, then, If his advice is so good