The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-07-31
ROASTED TO A BLACK cINDER
Professor Elliott Holds John w. Foster up
for Miserable Quack.

Professor Elliott hOtOs o"Hu w $1,000 -
for a Miserable Ouack.
Cleveland, Ohio. July 3o.-Professor
II. w. Elliott Of the Smithsonian insu-
| tuition. tonight gave out the compete
| tow of his recent sensational letter 10
Judge Day, assistant secretary OF STATE
reaarelng the seal fisheries. 1t as as fol-
| lows:
"rapewood Ohio, near Cleveland, July
IL, 1897.
| @Houorable w r. Day, Assistant Sec
re;arv of State, Washington, D. G.
"T,ear Sir-In the Morning Recorder
of this city, appears the teht OF letter
to Lord Salisbury, dated May 10, 1897,
and signed by John Sherman, secretary
of state. on the fur seal question. This
letter is pretaced by an account OF the
great embarrassment which its publica-
ton has caused the president, and that
II has 0een held up for several days al
The request of John W. Foster, VINO now
fears the effect of his own work a Few
weeks earlier.
"Inasmuch as I have closer personal
knowledge o. this ps.sent question than
any other man living, and vastly extend
ed and inasmuch as / am the author or
the moGts yivendi OF 1888, when is
ths only credits Die step taken by our
government towards settling this seal
dispute siEce /, began in 1890, up to date
| desire TO say thar after a careful pc
rusal Of this letter of May 10, ABOVE
cited. the president has reason TO feel
greatly embarrassed, because IL lays the
STATE depa1 lment open 10 crushing re-
ply from these not Of the Canadian once
and you will be in the same Notifying
nix that Biaine found himself in during
1890. when the Canadians simply crush
ed this contia bones mores letter by the
daca v hich they promptly furnished in
~eDuttal.
experienced and ignorant men
should not write such letters. dealing
with data about which they know no
more than SO many parrots John W.
Fos.e~ is utterly ignorant Of the truth
IT, regard 70 rne salient features OF this
seal question on the islands; that letter
of May 20 is like all other preparations
from his hand on this subject-full OF
gross errors. His dullness in making up
Tie American case in 1928 cost US that
shameful and humiliating defeat which
Ne met with in Paris in 1893. Had he
been tr ght and quick-witted, he never
would have met with such disaster.
Taking this commonplace man up
now. after this record of fat failure is
stamped all over his anatomy, and put
limo
ton will only thrust you deeper into the
mire than he and your predecessors have
been placed before by the brighr men
over the line at Ottawa.
Il am moved to write on this point
because a senator OF the United States re
Gently said To me That Foster had as
sured the president that the Information
which | gave the British in 1890 caused
the defeat of the American cause at
Paris in 1890. The meanness and un-
truth of this charge will be quickly seen
by your turning 10 my report Of Novem-
Der II, 1890, which contains this Informal
ton. Mr.. Foster and his stupid associ-
ates tried to suppress this report because
it contained the proof of my authorship
Sl Niit HlOuuo NlNe1lIl VI Io51-Jo, WHICH nc
meanly stole from me-piagiarized, in
fact: but he was unable 10 suppress il.
And now that he comes forward again
to figure in this question, L intend that
he shall be required at the proper time
and before the proper tribunal to give
a full account of his wretched record as
agent of the United States before the
Boring sea tribunal at Paris. in 1898.
This whole sealing business from the
day the trouble began in 1Ss0-91, up 10
da;e. has not been in the hands of a
competent man for one moment 1t has
been and is now the sport of the Cana
dams, and the languid contempt of the
British queens counsel is all that it re-
ceives when it comes up :here.
Very truly yours.