The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1902-09-06
NEW CAMPAIGN BOOK
FULL OF DEMOCRATIC Docra,nz

viii d Used In Congressional Cam.
paisns-osvotsd Largely 70 the
Discussion Of Imperialism and
Trusts-ehiiIppins Policy vIser-
eusiy Attacked.
Washington. Sept. 3.--The Demo
cratic congressional campaign book,
which made its appearance to-day. Is
. volume of 1874 pages, the major por-
ton Of which Is devoted to the discus
sion of Imperialism and trusts, 24O
pages being given to these two topics.
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 10th. arraign-
ing the Republican party for failure to
give relief to Cuba and to enact proper
antitrust legislation. Then follows an
extended criticism of the Republican
book, many of the statements con-
tanned therein being challenged ~ to
accuracy, especially those dealing with
the trust question. Under the head Of
thCIC 10 u lOAA 8GhSA rs
review Of the Philippine policy under
the following heads:
Attempt to Divert the Issue; Parti-
san Censorship: War Department In
vestigation and that of the Senate Con
trasted: War Department Policy of
Suppression; Farcial Investigations; A
Court Martial Stopped Because II
Would Prove Too Much: Court Martial
Trial Farce; Cruelty Committed and
Encouraged: Grimes of War and Not
Of Soldiers; American Expansion ver-
sus Roman Imperialism: Colonialism
and Trade; Statistics Against Colonial
ism: Keep American Capital at Home;
The Burdens Of Milltarism; Philippine
Venture Beginning Of General Policy
of Colonialisrn: Our Warlike President;
Philippines Source of Weakness;
Shall We Spend Peoples Taxes at
Home or in Distant Lands7; A Govern
ment for Carpet Baggers and Sp0lia-
ton; Statehood for the Philippines,
This review IL succeeded by chapters
on General Miles aud the army, dis
graceful record Of the military authori-
ties at both ends Of the lines In the
Gardener case, the Smith court-mar-
tial, torture as policy, review Of evil
dence involving the War Department
and certain army officers In the Philip
pines In violation Of the laws Of war:
the system, not the Individual, to
blame; Democracy the remedy for bar
barities; fundamental objections to the
Philippines, on account Of slavery and
polygamy, under the protection OF the
nag, and vice and loathsome diseases
in the Philippines.
The chapters on the tariff and trusts
are crowded with Statistics and ng-
ures, much attention being devoted to
an attempt to show that protected
trusts and manufactures get the bene-
fit Of all the tariff in our markets and
sell in foreign markets at greatly r.
duced 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 e&eaD-
ef than at home, and the whole Quss.
ton II summarized In q chapter o.,
''The Evils Of Protected Tru1D,"
which IL subdivided az follows:
l. Political Corruption. !.
2. Watered Stock.
8. Concealment of Export Prices.
4. Juggled and Manufactured Stats
tics.
The records of the two parties on the
trust question are contracted. Reel.
procity generally Is denounced as q
.humbug." The remainder Of the vol
ume is devoted to a variety of subjects.
including government by injunction.
the ship subsidy bill, Chinese exclu-
sion, foreign affairs and the Schley
case.