| Show BOLSTERING UP THEIR BAD CAUSE CAUS Campaign Book Intended to Deceive Voters Issued by bythe bythe bythe the Republicans ALL GOOD THINGS CLAIMED PANIC OF 93 CHARGED UP TO CLEVELAND CLEVE AND I Washington Sept 9 Republican party part Its achievements for half halt a cen century century tury and particularly its record in the present congress is commended to the Ul voters of the country in the campaign c text book given out today tod y by the Republican Republican lican Hcan congressional committee The book contains pages and is replete with Republican doctrine embracing practical practically ly every conceivable subject upon which information may mo be desired Radicalism m mor or conservatism it Jt is Sa declared are ure never matters matter of concern to Republicans but It Itis itis itis is said they are content cont nt with practical and progressive ideas and the maturing of those ideas into positive performance Every statement made and all aU figures presented are declared In jn the preface of ot the book to be official and authoritative ut and tho the preface concludes The truth Js is I the tho highest exemplification e tion of Republican doctrines and policies and party record the best plea that can be made for continuation in power Great Claims Made M de deIn In discussing the campaign issues of 1906 1006 the book calls attention to the fact that since the termination of ot the Fifty third congress can gross in the house of rep representatives representatives has been Republican and adds that there is Sa every reason to ex cx expect expect poet that a substantial working Republican Republican Republican lican majority will be elected next No November November November vember During those thO e ten years earst It Jt is stated we have made macic a greater advance a as a nation pation and a people than was ever made before in a generation and an in many respects greater than during our whole previous history There can aan not then be bethe bethe bethe the least doubt of Republican success if It the voters carefully study the record of the two parties There will wIn be thousands and thou thousands thousands thousands sands of ot thousands the book says who will vote yote for tor the first time in November who were mere children when the Demo Democrats Democrats Democrats last had hada a majority in the house of representatives and they do not all aU viv vividly vividly idly remember the awful times and nd con conditions conditions conditions brought on the country by that congress Panic Followed Harrison They were not born when the only Democratic president since the civil war was first t elected They were babes in arms when Graver Grover Cleveland sent sont his fa famous or infamous free trade message to congress and when a year after the in iniquitous InIquitous inIquitous Mills bill was framed and passed by the Democratic house of ot representatives tives of the Fiftieth congress But for fortunately fortunately fortunately there was then a n Republican senate to prevent the tho enactment of ot a afree afree afree free trade law and nd disaster and calamity were averted But In 1893 the Democrats had the presidency and both the senate and the house of representatives and the work of that single congress cost the tho industries and people of at the country many billions of dollars and in incalculable Incalculable incalculable calculable suffering These facts should be weighed with the record of at the Re Republican Republican publican party before and since and especially should the record of the present congress be studied for though its work is not finished more mor has already been done in one session than thaI by any previous congress since the war of the rebellion Only Democratic success it Is declared can prevent the giving to the people of the country new records in every phase of In Industrial Industrial Industrial life Mark Hanna and McKinley The Thc Book then continues The Republicans have a Q right to claim that our financial f commercial and indus industrial Industrial trial advancement is due to the laws en on enacted enacted acted act d and executed by their party leaders The party came into power when the gov government government government and the people were practically bankrupt and without credit A dis disrupted disrupted union was restored the vast ex cx expenses expenses of war provided for specie pay payments payments payments ments resumed a protective tariff amended from time time to o time and the de development of at the country continued d till the tho Democratic check came caine In 1894 1801 But It Jt is stated the people were W re quick to see their mistake and at the thc first t r t opportunity restored the Republican party to full fun power and no party change has hns been made since during a period of ten years The industrial Industria situation is 19 claimed to be unparalleled in the annals annala of ot nations Our volume of employment the state statement mont ment continues our rewards of labor our enjoyments of life were wore never before equalled and best of all aU there IB Is no sign signor or abatement or signal of retreat There is prospect of still greater and grander results and only the rankest pessimist can see a cloud on our national material horizon Birth of the th Trusts Because of the various financial and tariff measures of the Republicans which the hook book says s ya have nave brought about com corn competition competition petition in manufactures it is declared that a n home market has been built up in inthis Inthis inthis this country of such magnitude that for several years we have given full em employment employment employment at wages about double those paid when the Republican party came into power In some seine cases those wages are treble and quadruple what they were in iz h 1860 A list of twentythree Instances of im iii important it Republican legislation follows DHows be beginning beginning beginning ginning with the homestead law signed by b Lincoln The important laws law cited as enacted at atthe atthe atthe the last session of congress include the tho subjects of railway rates Panama canal cana can f pure puro food meat inspection free alcohol statehood admission consular reorganization ion tion national quarantine against yellow fever rigid steamboat Inspection limita limitation Lion tion of Immunity of witnesses in criminal cases promotion of militia efficiency aid for Sun San Sa Francisco establishment of oC a na mu national cemetery embracing the grave of Andrew Jackson with fifteen acres of or orland land marking the graves of Confederate soldiers rs Jamestown exposition aid three e hundred and twenty public acts alto altogether gether ethor three thousand six sh hundred and private pension acts Left L ft Over Laws Among the measures referred to qs nEt left leftover leftover over for the tho next session of the present congress are The Santo Domingo Isle of Pipes and Morocco treaties immigration restriction Hn nn in conference conf rence Senator Smoots right to fo fo seat campaign publicity shipping bill bi I modification of Chinese exclusion eJ laws bill law establishment establishment of ot postal savings banks and par Jar parcel parcel cel post poet limiting working hours of ot every ra w L Porto RIcan citizenship ct en hh in the United States reduction of tariff on o Philippine products prod copyright ht revision navy to have biggest bl e t battleship afloat and establishment of ot Appalachian and White Wh te mountain forest reserves Then follow extracts tracts o from speeches marks and and messages of Qt President Roose Roosevelt Roosevelt velt cIt on public matters various vario statistic the railway runway rate law In iii full tuB and other legislation 1 tu The keynote of the discussion sJon of the S tariff statement question queston is sounded In the foreign I Stand Pat Fat P t Policy I S pre are re content to let the present law la w stand without change or amendment so long ay as a present condition prevail A slight reduction In many of our schedules says say the campaign c book booc would result in the dumping into our market of perhaps n a dollars worth of at manufactures annually more than we weno now no import That would mean a report to fo one of two things thing We would have to close our mills mis or reduce wages There is positively no other alternative Protectionists do not claim that sched schedules schedules ules u les are sacred and never to be altered alered They do claim however that the American system s stem of ot protection as a exem exemplified by the operation of the Dingley law Jaw for tor nine yearn is la sacred sp red and must be pc yearl maintained We Ve do dp not have to theorize in the least degree We Ve have tried and tried thoroughly both high hiSh and low tariffs and we have experience as an example to guide gide us in reaching reaching the ruth We Ve need go g back no farther in our history hl tor than a decade deca to learn lear that a a low tariff means insufficient revenue closing clo ilg our manufactories Idleness for million of our laborers laborer and low wages for other mil mi mu lions Hons and unprofitable e prices for our farm farmers era ers eraA ersA HA A mere merO handful however of the Re Republican c publican party have been asking that the duty be b removed or reduced reduce upon certain materials entering neIng Into tho the products pr Qt f their own locality It I is J believed beHaved that this demand has ha been made more for po political than economical results re Negro In Politics Regarding the negro in politics the statement is made that the mere mention menton of the facts well wel known to every ob observer observer server of the times will wU suffice to indicate the relative attitude of the two great po political parties toward the colored citizen cl el The Republican party it i is said believes in the political equality of all al men with without wih without out reference to race or nationality while the Democratic party believes beHoves in restrict restricting restricting ing the privileges of citizenship to a 3 par particular pa particular class and has written her opinions opinions ions Jons into the statutes constitutions and nd practices of nearly neal every southern state where that party part is dominant After quoting the letter of President t of August 18 last to Representative Representative Watson Waton of Indiana analyzing the issues of the tho coming campaign the book bool closes with a quotation from Is given glen glenas as Speaker Cannons new platform Put none but home made cake cale in the pantry pan |
