New-York tribune., 1900-10-29

deceptive assertions on these questions SEN
ator Fryes letter follows:
The people of the United States have the RIGHT
10 expect Presidential candidate to meet the
issues OF the day with frankness and candor
Above all, they desire that he shall NOT attenoDt
to deceive them with false statements or viii
assertions which, by stating half the facts and
C?oncea!ing the others, give them false impress
SION Many OF them have not the time or the
opportunity to learn from the public records the
uelalis or the questions under discussion and it
IS only Just to them that those who appeal for
.HeT support should tell them the whole truth
ana nothing but the truth.
l have followed with great care the published
accounts OF your addresses since the campaign
began, and assuming that you are quoted with
reasonable accuracy am forced to the belief that
you are doing yourself a great injustice and
creating the conviction that you are not dealing
as frankly with the people as you have been
accustomed to do In the past.
l assume, of course, that you yourself know
the facts, and all the facts. relating to the sub
Jects which you attempt to discuss. They are
entlreiy accessible, and as you have devoted
your entire time to matters of this character
since your entrance upon public life ten years
ago 1t is reasonable to assume that you
familiar with the subjects which you discuss.
You have constantly criticised the course Of
the @ FTeSident IN suppressing the insurrection in
the Philippines; yet you know that the insur-
rection had been actually begun when the treaty
with Spain was ratified by Democratic votes
which were cast for it by your advice, and that
by that very act you aided in placing this re-
sponsibility upon his shoulders.
THE SIZE. OF THE ARMY.
You criticise the size of the Army Yet you
know that conditions in the Philippines were
critical and the lives of troops there in great
danger when the temporary increase was asked
by the President; and you also know that the
act which was supported by Democrats and
Republicans alike, is but temporary one, and
itself provides that the additions to the force
shall terminate on July l of next year.
You talk of buying the FilipinOs and of ex-
tendlng government over new territory without
the consent OF the governed, when you know
that every foot of territory west of the Missis-
sippi was acquired by your own party in precisely
the same way and the people temporarily gov
erned by precisely the same methods, and that
the opportunities for local self government
which have been offered the Porto Ricans are
vastly better than given the inhabitants
of the Louisiana Territory. Florida and the ter
ritory obtained from Mexico
consent, vet you know that your own party is
governing millions of people in the Southern
States without permitting them the voice in their
local or National government which the Consti-
tuition and laws guarantee them. and when the
matter is brought to your attention you have
not one word OF condemnation for 1t, but meet
the issue with evasion worthy only of the merest
pettifoger
You talk of trusts and charge the Republican
party with responsibility for them, yet you
know that during your own term in Congress
you did nothing except introduce two bills which
you permitted to die in the pigeonholes Of your
own Ways and Means Committee. You also
know that the Republican party enacted the
and that your party in the last session of
Congress defeated the only remaining remedy,
a constitutional amendment, which was pro-
posed and urged by the Republicans, and which
required for its adoption a two-thirds vote.
You complain of the existence of duty on
articles passing between Porto Rico and the
United States, amounting to 10 per cent Of the
Dngley law rates, when you know that the real
purpose of that was to declare the right to regu-
late matters of this character in regard to the
Philippines. and so protect workingmen of
the United States from the cheap labor of the
Orient and that every cent Of the duty thus col
lected in this country, well in Porto Rico,
goes to the benefit of the suffering Porto Ricans,
for whom you profess much sympathy. You
know also that this duty is but temporary, and
that the present law requires absolute free
trade with the island in less than seventeen
months from this time.
BUYING SOVEREIGNTY"
You said at Milwaukee. who says that we
buy sovereignty human bengs?' Yet
you know that this is just what the greatest
leaders of your party did in the case of Louisi-
ana Territory, Florida and the enormous terri
tory obtained from Mexico and what it tried to
do in Cuba and the Hawaiian Islands. and you
knew when you recommended the ratification of
the treaty with Spain that you were recon-
mending this very action.
At Indianapolis you complained that "a Re
publican President could send a telegram of
coincidence when a king dies, but when two
pubics expire no Republican sheds a tear" re-
ferring, of course, to the South African repub-
lies; yet you know that the United States Gov
ernment did more than any other nation on
earth to bring about cessation of hostilities in
South Africa. that it was the only Government
TO tender its good offices as mediator, and that
ii impossible under the articles of The
Hague Peace Convention for it to do more The
telegram of coincidence upon the death of the
Italian King, TO which you Sneeringly allude,
requires no defence or explanation, as you must
know that international courtesies of this kind
always observed, and that the failure to OBJ
serve them would justly have subjected this
Nation TO criticism.
You said at St Louis that under the trust
system the travelling men will not be needed"
yet you know that Investigations by the De-
partment of Labor show that the so-called trusts
have increased instead of decreasing the num-
Der of travelling men and other employees, and
that they have increased and not reduced the
wages of their worklngmen or statesmen, and you
know from your constant travelling upon the
railroads that the number of travelling men
now employed in what you consider an era or
trusts is greater than ever before. and that
this is shown by the records Of the railways
and their sales Of the class of tickets used by
travelling salesman.
You constantly assert that the so-called trusts
have advanced prices of the articles that farm
ers buv much more than the advance in. the
issue Of 'Bradstreets' shows that from October
l. 1899 to October l. 1900 wire nails fell from
S3 20 TO 50 % keg petroleum, from SIS cents
70 "a cents a gallon pig iron, from S2+ ID TO
SIG % ton; window glass, from 81 63 to - 81
a box; yellow pine lumber from SD TO $40
thousand feet: copper, from 1873 cents to l6.I
cents a pound tin plates, from 81 TO to 81 a
box: leather, from 81 cents to - cents a pound
steel billets, from 500 to SIT ton. and building
brick, from 81 20 to 81 thousand All these
articles. you assert. are manufactured and their
prices controlled by so-called trusts. Yet in the
time the products of the defenceless
farmer show adVance-corn, from 40 cents to
As cents a bushe; hogs from 81 % to s. 80 a
107s cents a pound wheat from 76 cents to 20
cents a bushel: barley from 46 cents to 30 cents