Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-09-03
DEMO. CAMPAIGN BOOK
A Volume Of 1884 Pages Issued
by Democratic Campaign
Committee.
Imperialism and Trusts Take
Up a Large Portion Of
the Text.
An Extended Criticism Of the
Republican Campaign Book
is Made.


which made its appearance yesterday,
is volume of 3S4 pages, the major
cussion Of imperialism and trusts, 24o
pages being given to these two topics,
115 to the former and 125 to the latter.
Upon the title page is the democratic
slogan: Equal Rights to All, Special
Privileges to None
The book for 1902 gives prominent
position at the top of the page devoted
TO tariff and trusts and prints in black
type the following editorial, which APP
reared in the keokuk Gate City, Jan.
80, 1900:
Because of present injustice The pro-
tective system in America, viii perish
unless 1t is divorced wholly ard COM
pletely as the instrument of power OF
these combination robbers, and made
an agency that shall serve all the
Americau people.
The volume opens with the platform
of 1900 and the resolutions adopted by
the democratic members of the house
at their conference June 10. arraigning
the republican party for failure to give
relief to Cuba and to enact proper anti
trust legislation.
Then follows an extended criticism of
the republican campaign book, many
of the statements contained therein be-
ing challenged as to accuracy, especial
ly those dealing with the trust ques-
ton
Under the head Of imperialism there
is long general review of the Phil
ippine policy under the following
heads:
Attempt to divert the issue, partisan
censorship, war department policy Of
suppression, farcial Investigations. wal
department investigation, and that OF
the senate contrasted with Il cour:
martial stopped because 1t would prove
too muck, court martial trials Il farce
cruelty committed and encouraged,
crimes of war and not of soldiers.
American expansion versus Roman i'm
perialism, colonialism and trade, sta
tistics against colonialism. keep Amer
lean capital at home. the burdens of
militarism, Philippine venture begin
our warlille president, Philippines a
source of weakness, shall we spend
peoples taxes at home OF in distant
lands, government for carpet baggers
and spoilation, statehood for the Phil
ipp;nes.
This review Is succeeded by chapt-
ers on General Miles and the admins
tration, disgraceful record of the mill
tary authorities at both ends of the line
in the Gardiner case, the Smith court
martial, torture as a policy, review of
evidence involving the war department
and certain army officers in the Phil
ippines in violation of the laws of war,
the system, not the individual to blame,
democracy the remedy for barbarities,
fundamental objections to the Philip
pines government act. slavery and
polygamy under the protection of the
flag, and vice and loathsome diseases
in the Philippines.
The chapters on the tariff and trusts
are crowded with statistics and fig
ures, much attention being devoted to
an attempt to show that protected
trusts and manufacturers get the benz
eft of all the tariff in our markets and
sell in foreign markets at greatly re-
duced prices. Facsimiles of export
price lists are given and comparisons
gre 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 cheap
err than at. home. and the whole ques-
ton is summarized in a chapter on
"The Evils of Protected Trusts" which
is ub-divided as follows:
% Political Corruption. (2) Water
ed Stock, CD Concealment of Export
Prices end (4) Juggled and Manufact-
,red Statistics. The records of the two
parties on the trust question are con-
trasted. Reciprocity generally is de-
nounced as humbug.
The remainder of the volume is de-
voted to a variety Of subjects, includ-
ing government by injunction, the ship
subsidy bill. Chinese exclusion, foreign
affairs and the Schley case.