The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1892-10-06
TIMELY TEXTS.
THE CAMPAIGN TEXT BOOK AND
WHAT 1T TALKS ABOUT.


THE CAMPAIGN TEXT BOOK AND
WHAT 1T TALKS ABOUT.
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 their appearance. These books
are prepared for the use of the speakers
and writer's, and bristle with facts and ar
guments and statements as to what the
two parties have done and have not done;
what their proposed policies would do
and What they would not do. and whc
the voter will accomplish for himself
and his country by supporting them.
The Democratic text book devotes its
attention largely to an attack upon the
protective tariff and defense of Demo-
cratic free trade principles. An elabor-
L
dent Cleveland s vetoes of the pension
bills, though it is forced to admit that
his vetoes of pension bills were twenty
five times as many as all the other
presidents put together. Aside from
the tariff and defense of Mr.. Cleve-
land the Democratic text book has little
of interest, for the party has already
run short of tissues" through the
general dissatisfaction with the state
bank scheme and the discovery that the
force bill is really a 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 large number of inter-
esting statements. Prepared as it is
with great care and absolute accuracy.
these statements are the more interest
ing. Mr.. T. H. Mckee, of 80 West
Thirteenth street, has charge of it's dis
tribution, and although it is book of
nearly 300 pages mails it at sixteen 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.
03O,O00,O00 against $742, 100000 in the
last year under the old tariff, and the
imports to 1927 ,00O, 900 in 1892, against
$745, ZOO, 900 in $780,
That although cotton ties were put at
so high rate of duty under the McKin-
ley law that their introduction was alb
solutely prohibited they are now sold
from domestic manufacture at lower
price than ever before.
That the wool growers of the country
have greatly prospered under the Nc
Kinley tariff, increasing their focks
1900, 900 in the last year.
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 the
increase being more than $50 per cent.
That the present administration has
reduced the annual interest charge On
the public debt nearly $4,000, 900, saw
ing to the people of about $1,000, 900 per
month.
That under the present administration
the amount of money in circulation has
been increased nearly 5000, 100000.
That while the Cleveland administers
ton went cut OF Office leaving $50, 953
homestead and other land entries I'M
acted upon the present administration
has acted upon all these and upon hun.
dreds of thousands which have since
been presented,
That the Democratic house of repre-.
sentatiyes in the late congress appropri
ated $45, 1000, 600 more than did the billion
dollar congress in its first session.
That the house committee on wal
claims reported at last session $40, 900, OO(
worth of musty old claims from southern
states, recommending their payment
from the treasury, and has some $780,.
100000 worth more waitin" sol action.
That the annual addition to the wealth
of the United States under protection
Is greater than the annual addition tc
the wealth of Great Britain, Germany
and France combined.
That nearly every important pension
bill 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 SOC
against them, while 1921 Republicans
voted for them and only two against
them.
That southern Democratic newspapers
say openly that they honor Cleveland all
the more because he refused to go into
the war, but sent 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 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 whole century American en-
couragement 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-
lection. The Democratic party proposes
that this policy shall suddenly be re-
'versed.
The feeble cry about the force bill is
losing it's potency. 1t is chiefly put
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