The Savannah morning news., 1902-09-03
DEM0CRACY'S BOOK.
Issued by the Committee for the
Congressional Campaign.

Issued by the Committee for the
Congressional Campaign.
Washington, Sept. 2.-The Demo-
cratic Congressional Campaign Book.
which made its appearance to-day. is
a volume of SS4 pages. the major por-
ton of which is devoted to the dis
cussion of Imperialism and trusts, 240
pages being given to these two topics,
lis to the former and LIS to the latter.
Upon the title page is the Democratic
slogan, Equal Rights to All, Special
Privileges to None"
The volume opens with the platform
of 1900 and the resolutions adopted by
the Democratic members of the House
at their conference, June 8, arraigning
the Republican party for failure to
give relief to Cuba and to enact proper
antitrust legislation.
Then follows an extended criticism
of the Republican Campaign Book,
many of the statements contained
therein being challenged as to accu-
racy, especially those dealing with the
trust question.
Under the head of Imperialism there
is a long general review of the Philip
pine policy under the following heads:
Attempt to Divert the Issue" Par
tisan Censorship" ''War Department
Policy of Suppression; "Farcical In
designations" War Department In
vestigation and that of Senate Con-
trasted;" "a Court martial Stopped
Because 1t Would Prove Too Much"
"Court-martial Trials Farce"
Cruelty Committed and Encouraged; :"
Grimes of War and Not of Soldiers"
American Expansion versus Roman
Innari9 ism "CnlOnialiSY1 and
Trade" Statistics Against Colonial
ISM" Keep American Capital at
Home;" The Burdens of Militarism;"
Philippine Venture Beginning of Gem
eral Policy of Colonialism;" "Our War
like President" philippines a Source
of Weakness Shall We Spend Peo-
pies Taxes at Home or in Distant
Lands?" "A Government for Carpet
baggers and Spoilation;" Statehood
for the Philippines"
This review is succeeded by chapters
on
Gen. Miles and the Administration; -
''Disgraceful Record of the Military
Authorities at Both Ends of the Line
in the Gardener Case" THE Smith
Court Torture as a Policy"
Review of Evidence Involving the
War Department and Certain Army
Officers in the Philippines in Violation
OI the Laws OF war, Inc system,
Not the Individual, to Blame;" De-
mocracy the Remedy for Barbarities: I"
Fundamental Objections to the Phil
ippine Government Act" Slavery and
Polygamy Under the Protection of the
Flag" and ''Vice and Loathsome Dis
eases ir the Philippines"
The chapters on the tariff and trusts
are crowded with statistics and figures,
much attention being devoted to show
ing that protected trusts and manu-
facturers get the benefit of all the
tariff in our markets and sell in for
eign markets at greatly reduced prices.
Fac SMILES of export price lists are
given and comparisons are made with
domestic prices of like articles. A
number of big trusts are discussed in
detail to show that they sell their
products abroad much cheaper than at
home and the whole question is sum-
married in a chapter on the Evils of
Protected Trusts" which is sub-di-
vided as follows:
l, Optical Corruption; 2, Watered
Stock; 3, Concealment of Export
Prices; 4, Juggled and Manufactured
Statistics.
The records of the two parties on the
trust question are contrasted. Recip-
rocity generally is denounced as a
humbug.
The remainder of the volume is de-
voted to a variety of subjects, in
Guiding government by injunction, the
ship subsidy bill Chinese exclusion,
foreign affairs and the Schley case.