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BRYAN TO BELMONT.
With His Own vTords*The G reat'
Leader Punctures The Fal
lacies of Belmont.
Colonel W. J. Bryan has mail
ed his answer to the last letter
received from Hon. Perry Bel
mont some weeks a£o. The cor
respoiidence thus far has dealt
largely with the rival Jefferson
dinners 1o be held in New York,
but Mr. Bryan ignores that mat
ter and devotes his attention to
the differences existing between
himself and Mr. Belmont on
questions of democratic party pok
icy. His letter, in part, follows:
“Lincoln, -,»rilß. 1899.—H0n. Perry
Belmont, New York. Dear Sir: Upon
xny return to Lincoln I found your let
ter containing the orginal letter and
postscript given to the press some days
before. I cannot find anything in my
letter to which you' can consistently
object.
“Yon began your speech in Madison
Square Garden on August 8, 1896, by
Baying it was time for “plainspeaking'*
and proceeded to accuse the Chicago
convention of a “betrayal” of the dem
ocratic parly. In your Brooklyn speech
on September 15, 1896, you spoke of the
Chicago platform as “the strange ele
ment of the old party and the socialists
who masquerade as populists.”
It seems that in using the words “b»-
trayal” and “masquerading.” I uncon
sciously fell into the style which you
employed in 1896. but 1 did not reflect
upon the intelligence of the gold stan
ard advocates by characterizing them
as an “unthinking element.”. -
“You ask, first, that I point out
wherein your utterances are “unpa
triotic, undemocratic, un-American
and in conflict with the democratic
creed as set forth in Jefferson’s first
inaugural address.” We have no ac
cepted standard by which to determine
whether a given opinion is patriotic or
American, but we have means of de
termining whether an opinion is demo
cratic and in accord with the teaching
of Jefferson. In presume you use the
word democratic in the party sense,
Otherwise that term would la* as diffi
cult to define as “patriot" and “ Amer
ican,” < -
“The right to determine what is
democratic in party sense belongs to
the democratic party. The Chicago
convention was mote purely represen
tative than any convention held in re
cent years, because the rank and file
of the party s|*oke on pdblic questions
through • instructed delegates. The
Chicago platform is the latest authori
tative definition of democracy as ap
plied to existing conditions, If a min
ority of the delegates to a national
convention representing a minority of
the members of the democratic party
has a right to determine what demo
cratic, then each member of the party
has a right to define democracy for
himself and to assert that he is a bet
ter democrat than any one else. Let
ine appy this principle to three ques
tions upon which you have taken a po'-»
ition in tliesvohtmes -■eat m ':
“First,'Standard money: second, pa
per 1 money, third, income tax,
‘Jefferson fa’vored thedouble standard
as against the single gold standard,and
during his administration our nation
had the free and unlimited coinage
of gold and silver at’the legal ratio of
15 to 1. The ratio was Changed to ,16
to 1 during Jackson’s administration.
The Chicago platform pronounced
against the gold standard in favor of
the return to the free and unlimited
coinage of gold and silver at the ’•at io
of 16 to 1 without waiting for the aid
or consent of any other nation.
As a delegate to the Chicago conven
tion you voted for a minority rejMirt
which declared against independent
free coinage on the ground that it
would not only imperil our finances,
“but would retard or entirely prevent
International bimetallism to which
the effort of th 1 government should be
Steadily directed.” As a delegare to
the Indir.napciis convention two
jncnlhsjater you supported a platform
which declared in favor of the gold
Standard without any declaration in fa
vor of international bimetallism. You
may be able to explain why the minor
ity rejected at Indiana phis the plank
for which it fought at Chicago.
“Mr McKinley in IS9I charged in a
public speech fl at Mr. Cleveland, dur-
ing his first administration, wasdishon
oring one of the precious metals, dis
crediting silver and raising the price of
gold. He insisted that Mr. Cleveland
was trying to make “money scarce, and
therefore dear,” ana added “he would
have increased the value of everything
else. Money the master and every
thing else the servant.” If Mr. Mc-
Kinley then (understood the- real pur
po>e of the gold standard, as 1 believe
he did, who could think Jefferson capa
ble of advocating a policy which in
stead of securing equal and exact jus
tice for all makes “money the master
and everything else the servant?”
Mr. Carlisle, in a speech in 1879, said
“The conspiracy to destroy by legisla
tion and otherwise from three-sevenths
to one-half of the metallic money of
the world is the most gigantic crime of
this or any other age.”
If Mr. Carlisle was then right,as I be
lieve hevwas, in his denunciation of the
gold standard, who can believe Jeffer
son capable of being a party to such a
crime?
“After the election Mr. McKinley
sent a commission to Euro|»e to secure
international aid in getting rid of the
gold standard.and a republican congress
appropriated money to pay the expense
of the commission. The oommission
failed localise of English opposition,
and English opposition was due to the
opposition of English financiers. Jef
ferson democrats must have a better
reason for submitting to the gold stan
dard then the fact that the English
financiers favor it as a means f»r rais
ing the purchasing power of their mon
ey. I have selected these ‘three ques
tions because they are important, and
l>ecause your position iq»on them has
been clearly defined.
Your speeches abound in expressions
of confidence in the gold standard,
your correspondence with Mr. Warner
sets forth your opposition to the income
tax, and a newspaper item, quoted in
your book, gives you credit for drafting
that portion of the Indianapolis plat
form which related to the, retirement*
of the greeabacks and the substitution
of bank currency.
Your prophecy that a “law to prevent
wage earners and salary earners from j
demanding and securing payment ]
in gold dollars would not lie a winning 1
issue" evinces a tender solicitude for
the laboring man. I might suggest that i
bimetalism alarms you more’ than it
does the wage earners. It was not the
fnployees who were frightened at the
specter of free silver in 1896; neither
did the laboring men share your desire
to add to the privileges of the l»nks.
On December 20, 1897, a year after
the election, the Federation of Labor
SlPwte
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adopted the following resolutions:
Rexolveti. That we declan; ourselves
most |>ositively opposed to the Gage
financial bill recently introduced in
congress by the secretary of the treas
ury. It is a measure that if adopted
as a law will only the more firmly rivet
the gold standard on the poeple of the
country and perpetuate its disastrous
effects in every form.
“Resolved, That we pronounce the
Gage bill an undisguised effort to retire
our greenback currency and all govern
ment pa|>er money with a view to the
substitution of national bank notes in
their stead, and thus fasten the nation
al bank system for years upon the
American jjeople.”
1 am not willing to lielieve that you
an; more interested in the laboring
men than they an; in themselves, or
that you know better than they what is
good for then!. ‘ Yours truly,
W. J. BRYAN.
MY TRIP TO LOUISIANA.
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Miss Lulu Ward’s school was given ex
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R. Slack, Jr., age, 10 years:
“In response loan invitation from my
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Musson.La. I left Oct. 15, 1898 at 0:30
p. in. and and arrived in New' Orleans
atß:3o the next morning. 1 went to the
French Market and bought some very,
fine coffee. 1 saw the St. Lpuis Cathe
dral, one of the oldest in the United
States. I also saw the mint which is
next to the oldest in the United Stages.
I boarded a street car on Canal street
and went to the cemetery. They don’t
bury their dead in the ground as we do,
but in little vaults. The ground has so
much water in it that they cannot dig
deep.
I left on the steamer E. J. Gray. I
saw a great many sugar houses and
.sugar plantations. It was .right in the
middle of the rolling season and col
umns of smoke were pouring out of the
sugar houses. These sugar houses are*
immense establishments and work hun
dreds of men. I reached Plaquemine
and took the T. and I’. R. R., then I
was met by my Uncle Sam. While
there I visited a large sugar house.
The cane is first put on a carrier which
feeds it to large iron rollers. These
rollers are six feet long and 2% to 3
feet in diameter; weighing front six to
seven tons apiece. After the juice is
cruslred from the cane, the cane is call
ed pagasse. This is used as fuel in the
furnace or dried and sold for making
(taper. The juice is ne<t passed through
a sulphur machine where it is bleached
in The fumes of burning sulphur. It is •
then run into tanks called receivers
and here it is allowed to remain for 24
hours to settle. After this it is drawn
into large kettles holding from 300 to
509 gallons apiece. Just before it
comes to a T a»il lime is added to it ta,
overcome the excess of sulphur. As!
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as scum and re brushed away with pad
dles. The juice is transferred into a
1 succession of kettles diminishing, in
! size until it reaches the smallest one
1 right over the furnace, which is called
I the battery. When drawn from this it
is a good, thick syrup and is usually
sent ton refinery to lie made into white
sugar. After eating some good hot
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for a big Hunt on .Bayou Grosse Tete.
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two. We saw a drove of wild ducks on
the Bayou, so we got a boat and rowoil
down there and tired in the droye, kill
ing two and wounding one. Our dog
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i him. When our dog was about two
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the nextjinie he caught the duck. We
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I the next day. I left Musson for La
i Grange. I arrived in LaGrange at 9:30
J Friday. Harry«R. Slack.”
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Troup comity six months and
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