The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1902-09-13
DEMOCRATIC DOPE.
Delirious Doctrine to Be Dissemin-
ated in Drastic Doses.
silence ON Free silver and Its Meg
aphonic Mouthpiecs Noticeable
Features - Everything Re-
publican AHsaiIed.


An uneauivocal declaration for free
trade and the ignoring Of the free sill
yer question are the features OF the
campaign book just issued by the DEM
ocratic congressional committee stimuli
| taneously from its headquarters In
Chicago and in Washington, ID. Z.
The book is intended as guide
and textbook for democratic spell
binders" during the present con-
gressional campaigns throughout the
country, and, in the absence OF n ma
tional convention, Is regarded as FUR
nishing the platform on which the con-
gressional campaign is to be fought
| out.
Imperialism and the conduct OF the
army in the Philippines come in Tor a
share of notice, and many pages OF the
book are devoted to trusts, the discus
sion of which fairly bristles with sta
tistics and figures to show that the
producer is the onfy one who has been
considered in the republican legis-
lation, and that the consumers rights
have been wholly ignored.
In the light of former declarations
by the congressional committee and
| the national democratic convention,
the treatment Of the tariff and silver
questions is considered by Chicago
politicians most significant. The only
place in which the term "free silver
appears in the 2S7 pages OF the book
| Is i'm the text of the last democratic
national platform adopted at Kansas
City. in which the subject received
marked attention. Nowhere in the ar
| pument and discussion of the volume
is the slogan Of the Nebraska orator
mentioned.
Protection is declared a fraud. and
reciprocity humbug. The book as
serts that the tariff is the breeder or
trusts and the only remedy is free
trade for all industries. Imperialism
| Is subject which has fired the vivid
Imagination of the democratic writers,
and they have portrayed atrocities
committed in the Philippines, besides
| which exposition the refined cruslties
of eastern despots Of the middle ages
are mere child's play and the horrors
| of the black hole of Calcutta is
| pleasant dream.
The book charges the army in the
Philippines with the commission OF
vice and crime. 1t condemns every
thing done by the republican party
since its organizations; attacks its lead
ers, sparing neither the living nor the
dead. and drags the late President
Mckinley from an honored grave and
alludes to him sarcastically as the
flexible statesman"
In denouncing reciprocity as hum
bug and comparing it with free trade,
the textbook states:
EN- theory. reciprocity. like protection,
thinks only OF the producer and never of the
consumer 1t assumes that the seller is the
only one benefited by an exchange OF prod
ucts. 1t does not propose to lower our tain
wall by the fraction Of an inch. II proposes
to punch vent holes In the walls to save IL
from destruction. 1t will permit certain
quantities Of certain articles to pass
through these holes. but never enough 20
let In all of any one product. To 60 this
woule benefit consumers and spoil the game
| OF the protectlonists.
"The theory of free trade is that Dotn
reller ard buyer are benefited by an ex-
| change of commodities and that, as all are
| consumers the grea test good to the great
| estnumbe r requires that there be 70 barriers
| to trade In order that goods may be as
| cheap as possible ard the cost of living be
| reduced to a minimum
The Philippine question. under the
title Of imperialism" takes up 113
pages of the book. In this long chap
ter the republican party is assailed for
practically everything it has done in
the Philippine islands. The charge
given most prominence is, ms stated,
that American soldiers in these is
lands have been guilty of extreme and
wanton cruelty toward the natives.
This charge, It is declared. Is support
ed by the developments before the sem
! atorial investigating committee last
winter and especial stress is laid on
! Gen. Smiths order, which is styled
/ "amazing and horrible"
| In the discussion of tariff the argu-
' ment declares that it is through re-
vision of the tariff that trusts can be
controlled most easily. The book gives
:, a classified list of the various so-called
| trusts in the country, including the
railway amalgamations, and with them
! table showing where the cost 81
goods manufactured by these so-called
trusts is considerably greater in the
United States than in foreign countries
to which they are exported. The most
prominent articles in this list are tin
plate, wire and wire ropes, and nails.
sewing machines. some forms of agri-
cultural implements, typewriters and
household utensils.
The remedies proposed for trusts are
"the repeal of the tariff wherever IL
shall shelter the trusts, the taxation
of trusts by congress, punishment un-
der the Sherman act, requiring corpo-
rations to make uniform prices for all,
and publicity"
| The ship subsidy, government by in
junction. Chinese exclusion, the Schley
case, the failure OF the Cuban reciproc-
| ity-measures. and foreign Affairs are
also discussed.
DNevada, the strongest Of all sill.
yer states, not even excepting Col
orado has become solidly republican
again. Prosperity has done II, for
the people of Stewards pocket
borough have learned that there can
be good times Notwithstanding 1.-THE