Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-10-26
CAMPAIGN TEXTS.
4 TIMELY DISCUSSION OF TOPICS OF
GREAT IMPORTANCE AND INTEREST.
The Work of the Administration Re-
viewed-Many Facts Which Will Inter-
est Every Speaker, Writer and Voter.
Contrasting Two Administrations.
Especial Correspondence

Contrasting Two Administrations.
Especial Correspondence
NEW YORK, Oct 3.-One of the most
interesting publications of the campaign
has made it's appearance in the form Of
the Republican Campaign Text Book"
1t is the result of much careful labor
on the part of people thoroughly ia
miliar with the political history of the
country and Of the two great parties,
and as it is prepared for the use of cam
paign speakers and writer's great care
has been taken to make it's statements
absolutely accurate and reliable. There
fore the information which it gives is
the more interesting. Mr.. T. H. Mckee,
of 80 West Thirteenth street, has charge
of its distribution, and, although it is a
book of nearly 300 pages, mails it at six
teen cents per copy. Here are some of
the things which it shows:
It shows that the manufacture of
wooden goods has prospered under the
new and higher tariff as it never pros
pered before, and that the wool growers
have been so greatly encouraged that
they increased the number of their sheep
1906, 900 in the first year under the Nc
Kinley tariff.
1t shows that the prices of wooden
goods were lower under the Mckinley
tariff than before, and that no loss has
resulted to consumers from the new
duty.
1t shows that forty-two tin plate
manufactures have been established
since the passage of the Mckinley law,
making tin of a quality superior to that
made abroad, at higher rates of wages
and reduced price, the selling price
being actually lower now than under
the old tariff.
It shows that the aggregate Of domes-
tic exports in the 101 years under the
constitution have been $21 ,692, 739, 844.
Of which sum $3.50, 818, 791 occurred
during the thirty years of protection,
the total exports during the seventy lone
years being but Sc, 052, 1921, 052.
It shows that under twenty-five years
of protection 1867, 100000 pounds of
cotton were sent abroad against 80, 108,-
100000 pounds in the preceding sixty
years. Both these statements show the
fallacy of the Democratic claim that
protective tariff closes the markets of
other parts of the world to America.
1t shows that the product of the farms
of the country has been greatly in
creased under protection. In twenty
years under protection we have ex-
ported So, 100000 worth of bread
stuffs against $1,260,00O in the proceed
ing fifty years. The exports of meat
products under twenty-five years of pro-
lection have been 6,391 ZOO, 600 pounds
against 1,490,000,000 pounds in eighty
one years of low tariff preceding.
1t shows that under reciprocity there
has been an increase Of many millions
of dollars in our exports to Central and
South American countries, and that in
many articles the increase has amounted
to from SO to $50 per cent.
It shows that the Republican party
has been the author and fnisher of all
the pension legislation enacted in behalf
of the old soldiers Nearly every pen
sion bill before congress was voted
against by more than half of the Demo-
Gratis in congress. A tabulation of the
votes cast on the important pension bills
enacted since the war shows sol Demo
cratic votes for the bills, 902 Democratic
votes against them, 1891 Republican
votes for the bills and two Republican
votes against them.
It shows that the so called force bill is
| nothing more than an extension to all
parts of the country of the eminently
| just federal election laws now in force
in all the great cities, and which Mr..
Cleveland and his subordidates made use
of while he was president in their efforts
| to re-elect him.
1t shows Mr.. Cleveland's veto record
as startling evidence of his hostility to
the working people and the masses. His
vetoes while governor included the me-
chanics' lein law, the bill making en-
ployers responsible for accidents from
| imperfect machinery, of inferior con-
| struction Of buildings, the bill forbid
! ding the manufacture of cigars in tene-
ment houses, the bill making ten hours
days work for street railroad compa-
MES, the bill prohibiting elevated rail
roads from charging more than five cents
| fare, the bill requiring all state printing
| to be done by union workmen, the
bill abolishing convict labor in prisons,
the child labor bill, and while president
| he vetoed the anticonvict labor bill in
| 1885 and again in 1888.
It shows that Cleveland recommended
in his message on Dec. 6, 1886, the en-
| ployment of federal convicts in manu-
featuring pursuits and the use by the
government of the products of their
| labor.
1t shows that the average rate of
wages in the United States is fully dou-
| BILE that in Great Britain. Taking list
of nineteen occupations, such as manu-
| facture of boots and shoes, cotton goods.
| carpet weavers, printers, mill hands,
ETC., the average rate of wages in the
| United States is $3.50 per day and in
| Great Britain 1923.
1t shows that in Democratic states the
average rate Of wages for farm hands is
eighty-three cents day, and in Repub-
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