The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-09-12
DEMOCRATIC DOPE.
Delirious Doctrine to Be Dissemin-
ated in Drastic Doses.
silence on Free Silver and Its Meg
nphonic Mouthpicce Noticeable
Features Everything Re-
publican Assaulted.

yer question are the features OF the
campaign book just issued by the dem
ocratic congressional committee stimuli
taneously from its headquarters III
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 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 III Tor
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 only one who has been
considered in the republican lesls-
lation. and that the consumers rights
have been wholly ignored.
In the light of former declarations
by the congressional committee ana
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 in the text of the last democratic
national platform adopted at Kansas
City, in which the subject received
marked attention. Nowhere in the ar
gument and discussion of the volume
is the slogan of the Nebraska orator
mentioned
Protection is declared fraud, and
reciprocity humbrg. The book as
serts that the tariff is the breeder OF
trusts and the only remedy is free
trade for all industries. imperialism
is a subject which has fired the vivid
imagination of the democratic writer's,
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 a
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 it's organization: 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:
'IrS heory, reciprocity. like protection.
thinks only of the producer and never of the
consumer. Itassumes that the seller Is the
only one benefited by an exchange of prod
ucts. 1t does not propose to lower our talf
wall by the fraction of mich 1t proposSs
to punch vent holes in the walls to save 1t
from destruction. 1t will permit certain
quantities of certain articles to pass
through these holes, but never enough 70
let in all of any one product To co TINS
wculG benefit consumers and spoil the game
of the protectionists.
1.-The theory of free trade IS that both
seller and buyer are benefited by an eN-
change of commodities ard that, as all are
consumers. the greatest good to the great
estnumber requires that there be no 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 III
pages of the book. In this long chap
ter the republican party is assailed fol
practically everything it has done il
the Philippine islands. The charge
given most prominence is, as stated
that American soldiers in these is
lands have been guilty of extreme ant
wanton cruelty toward the natives
This charge, it is declared, is support
ed by the developments before the sen
atorial Investigating committee las1
winter and especial stress is laid OF
Gen. Smiths order, which is stylet
'amazing and horrible"
In the discussion Of tariff the argn
ment declares that it is through re
vision of the tariff that trusts can b.
controlled most easily. The book give:
n classified list of the various so-callet
trusts in the country, including TIL
railway amalgamations, and with then
table showing where the cost G
goods manufactured by these so-callet
trusts is considerably greater in TIL
United States than in forei gn countrie
to which they are exported. The mos
prominent articles in this list are til
plate, wire and wire ropes, and nails
sewing machines, some forms of agri
cultural implements, typewriters an
household utensils.
The remedies proposed for trustsar
"the repeal of the tariff wherever i
shall shelter the trusts, the taXatio,
of trusts by congress, punishment III
der the Sherman act, requiring corpC
rations to make uniform prices for al
and publicity"
The ship subsidy, government by If
junction, Chinese exclusion, the Schle
case, the failure of the Cuban reciprot
ity measures, and foreign affairs az
also discussed.
GyNevada, the strongest of all 81
yer states, not even excepting Co
orado, has become solidly republca
again. Prosperity has done il, flo
the people of Stewards pocke
borough have learned that there ca