Show STATED CIEAUOEJi RL CAVED The wickedness of this Bryanite campaign cam-paign of lies and forgeries would be sufficiently damning if it were to be confined to the campaign and to end with election day It is an infamous thing to utter falsehoods for the sake of misleading men and inducing them to vote otherwise than they would if they heard only the truth Yet this fs what Mr Bryan and his managers are endeavoring to do They began with a wanton and malicious forgery on the editorial page of Mr Bryans own paper pa-per under his name as editora forgery for-gery which has been repeatedly exposed ex-posed but never yet so far as can be ascertained retracted They went onto on-to attribute false provisions to the constitution to garble and distort a letter of Prince Bismarcks to Invent a spurious speech and credit It to Lincoln Lin-coln to falsify and lie about a Tribune editorial and to do innumerable other jobs of the same kind New YorJr Tribune It is not a little amusfng to read such diatribes as the foregoing It happens that the falsehoods and forgeries of this campaign are not putout put-out by the Bryan managers but by those who are conducting McKinleya campalfpi When matter published by the Democrats has been particularly damaging the gold press has denounced de-nounced it as a lie or as a forgery but When the proofs haye been produced the truth of the publications has been uniformly established The London Financial News article e n I II I for instance to which the Tribune 4 i fers was widely denounced cas ia i orgery but the fact has been established estab-lished that itdid appear in the London journal as stated by Mr Bryans paper pa-per There was an error respecting the year of publication but the article was as given It clearly showed that Great Britain would lose its trade with silverusing countries and this country would ecu ejit if the United States should restore free coinage The fact of there having been an error Iin the staled date of publication has no bearing whatever upon the point involved and it is very silly in the Tribune to repeat the charge of forgery for-gery in the face of the truth of the matter And in passing may be mentioned that one of the highly important points to be gained through Independent free coinage Is that it would secure the United Uni-ted States an enormous volume of trade that they do not now enjoy Having given silver an established place this country would at once draw the trade of those people who use silver sil-ver exclusively The loss would fall largely upon England as the Financial News pointed out Before other nations na-tions could adjust themselves to the new conditions our control of the trade would be firmly established Free coinage under previously arranged ar-ranged international agreement could not secure us any special advantage This is a point that is overlooked by those who think It would be just as advantageous to restore bimetallism through an agreement with the other powers as by independent action In the broad effect upon humanity in general gen-eral either plan might be equally effective ef-fective butin choosing its method this country should exercise a little of what has been termed enlightened selfishness It was a most important i contribution that the London paper made to the literature ot the questicn Nothing was more natural than that the gold jtes should endeavor to discredit it and tha Tribunes repetition at this late dayr of the charge of forgery shows how much the monometallists fear this feature of the subject Then the Tribune charges the Bryan men with garbling Prince Bisraarcki letter and with doing sundry other things that amounted to lies and forgeries for-geries The country now understands that It was the McKInleyites who gar bled thp letter from the German statesman The letter declared that I the United States could with advantage advan-tage act independently It was a terrible blow to the monometallists to have such an opinion expressed by a man of Bismarcks standing in the world and the Tribune finds itself In such a desperate state of mind over it that it is still willing to make itself absurd by charging that the letter was garbled |