Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1892-10-15
TIMELY TEXTS.
THE CAMPAIGN TEXT BOOK AND
WHAT 1T TALKS ABOUT.

VITAL IL iAlf\O AoOOt.
Information Which Will Interest Every
body-Wonderful Growth of Property
Under the Present Administration.
Better Homes, Clothing and Wages.
Especial Correspondence
NEW YORK, Oct. 3.-The Republican
and Democratic campaign text books
/ have made theirappearance. These books
are prepared for the use Of the spe tI1ers
ald writer's, and bristle with facts and ar
gulnents and statements as to what the
two parties have (one and have not done;
what their proposed policies would do
and what they would not do. and VIII
the voter will accomplish for himself
and his country by supporting them.
The Democratic text book deyotes its
attention largely to an attack upon the
protective tariff and q defense of Demo-
cratic free trade principles. An elabor-
ate attempt is also made to defend Presi-
dent Cleveland's vetoes of the pension
bills, though it is forced to admit that
his vetoes of pension bills We're twenty
i've times us many us all the other
presidents Put together. Aside from
the tariff and a defense Of Mr.. Cleve-
land the Democratic text book has little
Of interest, for the party has already
run short of issues through the
general dissatisfaction with the state
bank scheme ard the discovery that the
force bill Is really Il reproduction Of the
methods which Mr.. Cleveland himself
called into use While president to try to
re-elect himself
The Republican campaign book, how
ever, contains a large number CT inter
esting statements. Prepared as it is
with great Cure and absolute accuracy,
these statements are the more interest
ing. MI. L. FL. Mckee, cf 90 West
Thirteenth street, has charge Of its dis
tribution, and although it is book of
nearly 300 pages mails it atsi1teen cents
per copy. Among these statements are
shown the following interesting facts:
That the force bill, SO called, is
merely an extension to all parts Of the
country Of the present federal election
laws, which President Cleveland used
while in Office to try to re-elect himself.
That under the new tariff our COM
merce with foreign nations greatly in
creased the exports, amounting to ST.
O30, 600, against S742. 600, 600 in the
last year under the old tariff, and the
imports to $s21 100000 in 1892, against
$745, ,0O0, 900 in 1890
That although cotton ties were put st
SO high a rate Of duty under the McKin-
ley law that their introduction was abb
solutely prohibited they are now sold
from domestic manufacture at lower
pite than ever before.
That the wool growers of tie country
have greatly prosperel under the Nc
That more than forty tin plate works
have been established. employing large
numbers of people and manufacturing
tin below those prices paid for foreign tin
Under the old tariff.
That under reciprocity our trade with
Central and South America has enor.
mOusly increased, in some articles TIE
increase being more than 1j0 per cent.
That the present administration has
reduced the annual interest charge on
the public debt nearly $4,000 900, a say
ing to the people Of about 81 100000 per
month.
That under the present administration
the amount Of money i'll circulation has
been increased nearly $500, 100000.
That while the Cleveland administrs-
ton went out of office leaving 800 .0:,3
homestead and other land entries un-
acted upon the present a;'lni2i stEl:ttion
has acted upon all these and upon hun
dreds of thousands which have since
been presented.
That the Democratic house Of repre-
sentatives in the late congress appropri-
ated SIS 900 600 more than did the billion
dollar congress in its first session.
That the house committee on war
claims reported at last session SIC, 100000
worth of mulsty old claims from southern
states, recommending their payment
from the treasury, and has some $780,
OOO, COO worth more waiting for action.
That the annual addition to the wealth
of the United States under protection
is greater than the annual addition to
the wealth Of Great Britain, Germany
and France combined.
That nearly every important pension
I'LL that has been passed by congress
since the war has been the work of the
Republican party. OF the total votes
upon the important pension bills sol
Democrats voted for the bills and 9O2
against them, while 1891 Republicans
voted for them and only two against
them.
That southern Democratic newspapers
say openly that they honor Cleveland al
the more because he refused to go into
the war, but sent Il substitute, and be-
cause he vetoed hundreds Of pension bills.
That Cleveland, while governor Of
New York, showed himself the opponent
of labor by vetoing the mechanic lien
law bill, the tenement house cigar bill,
the five cent fare bill on elevated rail-
roads, the bill making ten hours a legal
days work for street car companies, the
bill abolishing convict labor in the
prisons and the child labor bill.
That wages in this protected country
are more than double those paid in free
trade England.
Also thousands of other interesting
facts.
For a whole century American en-
couragelnent of the mechanical arts and
manufactures has generally prevailed,
and the greater part Of the surplus cap
ital of the country has been absorbed in
fixed investments in consequence OF pro-