New-York tribune., 1900-10-29
BRYAN'S EVASIONS SHOWN


a bushel; cottonseed, from S11 to SIT 80 a ton;
hay, from Il cents to 90 cents a hundred
pounds, and hops, from 13 cents to 10 cents
TRUTH ABOUT THE sULU TREATY.
You talk of the President sanctioning slavery
and polygamy in the Sulu ARCHIPELAGO oy
treaty with the Sultan. when you Know a lhaI
the only reference to either Of those suD1eGJs s1tS
in the agreement a provision Dy "hicn
slaves might purchase their freedom You also
know from public records that the president, on
receipt of the agreement Immediately lhstr ructeu M
it's trainers to notify the Sultan that IL must
not be considered as giving consent 10 sIatety'
which would be impossible under the Constltu-
ton, and that steps were inmeoIately taAsL S
looking to a recommendation to Congress LOT
obtaining their freedom.
You are constantly talking about the trusts
as contributors to the Republican campaign
fund when you know that the so-called sworn
testimony submitted to Congress SHOWS tnat @ tne
Sugar Trust was a heavy contributor 10 the
Democratic campaign fund ana tnat tne 6 char ar
man of your own National Committee is the
head of the most complete monopoly IN the
United States, the Round Cotton Bale trust
while Mr.. Croker and other leading Democratic
managers who are now supplying your party
with funds organized the most oppressive trust
known to the people the Tammany Ice Trust.
Won sneer at the full dinner pail" and say
that the Republican party thinks the working
man is all stomach, yet you know that under
the low tariff law which you helped to enact
the workingmen of the country were reduced
to greater suffering and want and reliance
upon charity than at any otner tlme IN the
remembrance of this generation, and that in a
short three years under Republican protection,
they have been given more general employment
and at higher wages than ever before, as shown
by the official figures of the Department OF
Labor.
eminent take the from his mother or
the husband from his wife and stand them up
before gun, while in time Of danger 1t cannot
lay its hand upon wealth and make 1t bear It's
share of the expenses" You know that every
man who enters the military service of the
Government does voluntarily and that in
the late war with Spain and that in the Philip
pines the volunteers were vastly more than were
required, while if you examine the receipts OF
the Government under the war tax you will see
that the largest items of the tax collected are
from the business classes.
At Indianapolis and Minneapolis you said that
the Republican party wants a standing army or
one hundred thousand men for the purpose OF
establishing a fort near every large, city and
suppressng by force the discomfort that ought
to be cured by legislation, Yet you know that
the act increasing the Army to one hundred
thousand men, which was passed by a Repub-
lican Congress and signed by a Republican
President, provides that the Army shall drop
back to less than thirty thousand men on July
l Of next year, while you also know that Re-
publican legislation in behalf Of labor since the
election of President Mckinley has ended the
discomfort which existed result of the tariff
legislation of your own party, and in which you
actively participated.
PRICES HAVE BEEN REDUCED.
You had good deal to say to the people OF
Indiana and to. the farmers everywhere about
the Wire Nail Trust and the Iron and Steel
Trust and the Standard Oil Trust and the
Copper Trust and the Tin Plate Trust, and as
serted that they were controlling prices of the
articles which the farmer must have. Yet how
is it that If they all powerful there has
been a drop in the last year of from 10 TO 30
per cent in the prices of iron and steel and
wire nails and lumber and leather and tin
plates and glass and many other articles manu-
factured by trusts, as shown by "Bradstreets
of October 13?
At Mansfield, Ohio, you said that when the
Republican House passed the bill increasing
the Army to hundred thousand there was
not arm raised against the United States.
You know perfectly well from published off,
cial reports that active preparations for hostili-
ties against our soldiers in the Philippines had
been in progress for months when the bill was
passed, and that the few American troops there
were known to be in imminent danger, and at
that very momenteyou were yourself urging the
ratification of the treaty with Spain. which
would necessarily require temporary force in
the Philippines largely in excess Of the Regular
Army, which, under the provisions Of the for
mer act, was restored to its original size Of
twenty thousand at the termination OF
the with Spain
You meet every reference to the Tammany Ice
Trust with the evasive and inaccurate statement
that the Republican Governor of New-York and
candidate Of his party for the Vice-Presdency
has neglected and is neglecting TO prosecute
that trust, when you know from his own state
ment. and must know from the public records,
that action for it's dissolution is in prog
ress and being fought at every step by the
Democratic stockholders of that organization,
who meantime furnishing funds for the sup
port Of your campaign in New-York and else
where
These are a few of the inconsistencies, eva
sionS and misleading statements which you are
every day repeating to the thousands of voters
ible that they are deceptive in fact, whatever
may be their intent. AS one who would not
see the high honor of a Presidential candidacy
reduced to the level of demagoguery and decep-
ton, 1 respectfully urge that you exchange
your present methods for the consistent and
honorable course which characterized your dis
cussions in Congress and in 1896, and which
gave you the respect of all men, matter how
much they might disagree with you in the
PRINCIPLES presented.