The sun., 1900-10-29
BRYAN'S BATTERY OF LIES.
SENATOR FRYE APPEiLS TO HIh TO
PLEASE TO TELL THE thu ih'
Formidable Catalogue Of the shallow fiotons'
Ticks, Eva,Ion,. shufics with which tho
Man who would lie President u sreki"E
"a T,,Lis the Far. Of the ThouGhtle's.


ha. brought down upon hi head shower OF
embarrassing questions from time 10 ilne
Almost every Republican orator has attempted
10 pin him down. but he has skipped llHh'E
a-ay and gives no serious or strdlghiorWhru
answers 10 the questions hurled at him United
States Senator William = Frye oi Maine, Pre-l-
dent pro ten of the United states senate mas
been campaigning In the Middle western Norih-
,storn and Rocky Mountain State' On h+
return 10 New York the other day he decided
10 nropare a soyew Of the salient issues Of the
canpnicn In the form of an open letter to Mr.
Bryan Senator Frye states with fairness ana
.j.aruess Mr. Bryan's record with regard To
the Philippines, the army. the dstranCh-ement
of the Colored mon, the trusts. Porto Rico and
the consent OF the governed" expansion, the
business situation. the Sum treaty. the work.
ingmen and points out with accuracy MI.
Bryan's Inconsistencies evasions md deceptive
assertions on these questions II remains to be
seen whether Mr. Bryan, in the closing week
Of the campaign, will ignore this appeal Tor
light as he has persistently ignored all similar
appeals Senator Fryc's letter Is a. follows:
Hon WilKdu J. Brvdn.
The people OF the United states nave the
right TO expect Presidential candidate TO meet
theis-ues Of the day with franknrHS and candor.
Above all they desire that he shall not attempt
in deceive them with false statements or With
assertions which by stating hall the facts and
COnCCaIlHg The others give llltn lAl-t impress
sion. Many Of them hav" not the time or the
opportunity 90 learn from the public records
the details OF the questions under discussion,
for their support should tell them the whole
truth and nothing but the truth .,.-,
] have followed with great care the pub
lished accounts Of your addresses since the
campaign began, and assuming that you are
quoted with reasonably accuracy, am forced
to the belief that you ar" doing yourself great
injustice and creating the conviction that
YOU are not dealing as frankly with the people
| assume Of course, that you yourself know
the facts and all the facts relating 10 the sub
jects which YOU attempt to discuss. They are
entirely accessible. and a. YOU have devoted
your entire time 10 matters of this character
since your entrance upon public life ten years
familiar with the subjects which YOU discuss
You have constantly criticised the course
Of the President IN -uppressnG The insurrec-
tlon in the Philippines; yet on know that the
insurreC'l1n h1f been actually begun irhen The
tre1tv nth spain uds ratified bv Democratic
rotes uhirh ,rcrC cast for u by your ddriCc. and
that by that very act vou aided In placing this
responsibility upon his shoulders.
know that conditions In the Philippines were |
critical and the lives of our troops there In great
b. the President. and You also know that the |
act. which was supported by Democrats and |
Republicans alike, Is but TEMPORARY one and |
terminate on JuiB Of ncH mar |
Ynl talk Of buying the Flpino1 and Of ey- |
oIt the consent OF the governed when YOU |
know that every foot OF territory west Of the !
Mississippi was acquired by your own party |
In pre- isely the same way aud the people tenn |
pDrtrlly governed 10y precisely the same meth |
DDS, and that the opportunites for local SELF
glv'-1m mt which have br'n offered the Porto |
RCln' are vastly better than were z ven th- |
Inhabitants of the louisiana Territory, Florida |
aud the territory obtained from Mexico.
NOl talk about governing people without |
their consent vet you know that your own
puty l. governing millions Of people in the
Southern States without permitting them
the voice in their local or national Govern !
meat which the constitution aud laws g1aran-
tee thom. and when the matter l.. brought |
10 yblr attention, YOu have not one word ~ |
cOndamn alton for II but meet the issue with |
evasion worthy only Of the merest pettfogger.
lou talk Ot trusts and charge the Republican |
party with responsibility for them yet YOU |
know ,1at during your own term in Congress
which yud permitted 20 die in the pigeonhole-
Of your own Ways and Means Committee. lou
also know that ne Rcpu6hcdn Pqrtg enacted
and mot pOtr oTn party IN the last ssssOu ~ Com
gr.ss dsfGoted The onig remaining rfmedN con,
stitghorui qmcndmlut. which wa, proposed
and urged 10y the Republicans. and which re-
Nnlred for its adoption 'wo-thrd vote.
You complain Of the existence Of a duty
the United States, amounting Ia Is per cent
Of the Dinglcy law rates. when you know that
right TO regulate matters Of this character
in regard 70 the Philippine. and SO protect
the cheap labor Of the Orient, and that every
cent Of the duty thus collected in this country,
as vel .,,c as in Porto Ric2 goes 70 the benctit
profess 50 much sympathy you know also
that THIS duty is bnt temporary and that The
re islands In less than seventeen months from
this time
we can buy sovereignty over human beings"
Yet you know that this is Just what the great
est leaders Of your party did in the case Of
Louisiana territory. Florida. and the enormous
territory obtained from Mexico, and what IL
tried to do IN Cuha and the Hawaiian Islands,
ratification Of the treaty with Spain that you
were recommending this very action.
lndlanapoh' you Gomplaned that "a Re
condolence when king dies, but when two
repn9cs eXpir" no hopnblican shed. a tear
pubics vet you know that the United States
Goyernwent dd more than any other nation
tilitIcs IN South Africa. that il was the only
Government iO tender its good offices a. media
tor. and that it was impossible under article,
OF The Hague Pence Convention for IL to do
more The telegram Of coincidence upon the
death Of ~" Italian King 20 which YOU oneer-
tion. n YOU mu-t know that international
coIrtcsics Of NJ; kind are always observed
and that the failure tO observe them would
Justly have subjected this nation 10 criticism !
You s2ii IN 81 Louis that under IN" trust
yet YOU know that inve-ti cations by tho De
partment Of Labor show that the sc-oallrd
trusts have increased instead Of decrease
the number Of travelling men and other em-
ployees, and that they have increased and
not reduced the wages Of their working men |
or salesIneu. and Won know from your con-
slant travelling upon th" railroads that tho
number Of travelling men now employed |
in what YOU consider an era of trusts j. great"r
than ever betur" and that his i shown bv
the records Of the railways and their sales II
the class of tickets used nv travelling sales
me0.
You constantly assert that the so-called trusts
have advanced the prices Of the articles that
farmers buy much more than tho advance
in the pri 'eS of farm products. Yet the OCT. l3
issue of BrGdsfr'Gs shows that from oct l. |
1899, 10 oct /, 1870. wire nails fell from 81 - ]
to 80 s. per keg, petroleum, from s. cents 10
"a cents per gallon. ig iron from s2i - to sl8 ~
per ton, window glass, from 81 to 81 80 per
box. yellow pine lumber. from s22 10 $40 per
th1rSlnd feet. copper. from 1873 cents TO iG7
cents per pound, tin plates. from - ~ 10 81
per box, leather, from 33 cents to 20 cents per
pound steel billc'~, from s3a To sl7 per ton,
and building brick, from 81 - To 81 per thousand.
All ~ these articles, you assert, are mInuiaC-
tnret and the prices controlled by -p-cllcd
trn-lS Yet In tho sam" time the products Of
the d''"1'r"ss tlrmcr show an advance Corn,
from cents tplN Calt~ p'r bushol hogs, from
SCi ~ = - pcr hundred weight, cotton, from
! H-lb c"'i~ - 10. cents per pound wheat,
from - can - ~ cents per hu-he barley,
rom ~ h'"It> - ~ Crlt~ pc" buShnl Cpttou~eed,
ron I'll - sl7 70 p"r ton. hay. from u cents
10 70 ,r'~ per 10 p'lud,. and hops, from