The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-11-21

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 this community for fairness and jus- tice. I may have misunderstood you, and hence may have been led into er- TOT. You have charged me with an of fense of which I am not guilty; you have condemned me unheard. I appeal to your sense of fairness for a personal hearing. My public utterances touch l ing your attitude on this question are very few and very brief.
 I will bring them with me, if you grant me this request. 1 will have the 1 passages marked and it will not take you two minutes to read them trust, therefore, that you will grant my re- | quest; but whether you do or do not I shall regret more than anything else in connection with this matter that the righteous cause of reciprocity with neighboring countries of so much value to our people and to the whole of the human race, is not to have the endorse ment of your great name, and the berl- eft of your potent aid.
 I take the liberty of enclosing here with a public statement made by my self and my associates touching the matter of our interview with you last winter, which perhaps you may not have seen, and remain,
 Yours very respectfully,
 Henry M. Whitney.
 The president:
 The letter from the president to MT, yIybt+naNy TEyna PoIInpyts.
 Nov. IS, 1905.
 Sir: have your letter of the 17th inst. In view of my previous exper- fence with you l am obliged to state, with regret that it is out of the ques- tion for me to grant you another inter- view. Tn this letter of November r, in which you make this request, you furnish additional evidence of the wis dom of my refusing to communicate further with you; my refusal being based upon your evident inability to understand, or determination to mis- represent what say. In this letter yau that that you regret more than anything else in connection with this matter that the righteous cause of reciprocity with netghboring countries, of so much value to our people and to the whole of the human race, is not to have the endorsement of your (my) great name, and the benefit of your (my) potent aid."
 Nothing that I have said at any time has given you the slightest warrant for making this assertion; and when, in the very letter asking for an inter- view, and denying that you ever will fully misrepresented my previous re- marks, you incorporate another delib- crate misstatement, you can hardly wonder that I decline to see you; nor would there in any event be the slight est point in such an itnerview. In your speeches you pretended to quote from memory certain statements made in the course of a long conversation oc- curing nearly a year previous. You quoted portions of what said-even as to those portions, your language was inaccurate; and all the context was suppressed. AS a result, you as com pletelY "Tnisrepresented me as in the sentence of your present letter, which I quote above. It matters little .wheth- CT this was due to a deliberate pur- pose of deception, OF to a lack, in both your companions and yourself, of a nice sense of propriety, and of the power of exact thinking and of correct apprehension and repetition of what was said. In either event I feel if would serve no useful purpose again to