The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-09-23
CAMPAIGN TEXT
BOOK is READY
Complete Exposure of False
Claims OF Republicans.
TRIBUTE LEVIED BY TRUSTS
POSTAL AND INTERIOR DEPART
MENT FRAUDS.


sued. II makes volume Of 3l4 pages,
discusses the issues Of the two parties
and reprints a number of speeches by
leading Democrats. The following
synopsis Of the book has been prepared
by the Democratic campaign commit
tee:
by the way of emphasizing the is
sue of constitution opposed to inn
perialism,' the Democratic campaign
book contains as preface the full text
of the constitution of the United
States. The place Of next importance
is accorded the tariff and trusts sixty
of the ga pages ofsthe book being de-
voted to this subject.
Some Trust Facts. 4
Concerning the trusts. much space
is given to evidence that the protected
combines, having a tariff monopoly in
our home markets are compelling
Americans to pay much higher prices
for manufactured goods than are paid
by foreigners. The export and home
prices of hundreds of articles are COM
pared. Nearly all kinds of hardware,
agricultural implements, machinery.
watches, baking powder, condensed
milk. canned goods and every kind of.
steel products are sold to our cOnsum-
ers at prices averaging about % per
cent more than those paid by foreign
ers for the same goods. Quoting Pres
ident SehWab's statement to the in-l
dUstrial commission that goods were
always sold cheaper for export the
evidence before the Chamberlain tariff
commission, in England and numerous
statements from export journals, trade
journals and commercial papers, the
conclusion is drawn that nearly all
our exports of iron and steel goods.
20 S1l1 600. 900 last year, are
sold to foreigners at an average of
about four-ffths the price charged 10
Americans. Never before was SO much
specific and uneQuivocal evidence pre-
scented on this point
Republican Fallacy Exposed.
Discussing prices and wages, the
absurd methods of the Republicans in
making averages and Juggling statis-
tics arc exposed. Particularly is the
bureau of labor scored for making sta, j
tistics TO order for use of the Repub-
lican campaign committee-statistics
that raise wages and reduce prices. on
tificial prosperity. The figures OF the
bureau. which show an increase of !
only 10 per cent in the cost of living
since 1897 are cOntrasted with the fig
ures of X. &. Dun & Co, which show
that the cost of living was IS per cent
higher last March than on July I, 1897 /
just before the Dingley bill became a !
law.
BASED upon various figures and the !
full complete reports of railroads COW
ering over 1900, 900 workers, Y hich em- |
braces. both union and non union La
bor.t and show that wages rose at most !
only or 5 per cent from July. 1857, to
July. 1908 when the purchasing power |
Of wages has declined rapidly; that /
wage earners in 1903 could purchase |
only 10 per cent as much as in 1897. |
the conclusion is reached that if the /
dinner pail is to be full it must be |
as large as before the /
Dingley trust began their era of pros !
perity.
Tribute Levied.
zone of the most instructively inter-
esting chapters under tariffs and trusts
is that showing that the average fam
lily pays tribute of $94 year to the
protected trusts. Taking in detail the
important item of expenditure. the
tariff taxes on each item are carefully
estimated. The total is S111. of which
only $l652 goes on taxes TO the United
States. The balances. 1874 per family,
or 81 SOC 600. 900, for the 100000 fam
lies in this country goes 10 the pro-
tected trusts
Under the heading Business and
Industrial Record of 1903-04,' are given
a list OF III important wage reductions
and 109 closed mills for the last half
Of 1908 and the first half of 1904 These |
go items are contrasted with the list
Of 100 similar though less specific
items printed in the Republican cam
psign book giving the industrial rec
ord for 1903 and 1894 1t is thus de-
clsred that the business depression of
this year is greater than was that OF
1888 and 1S94-the most of which oc-
Cured under the Mckinley bill<
Postal Frauds.
THE chapter on the postal frauds
a complete history of the
scandal from the beginning. Evidence
Is produced showing that the investi- /
cation of the department was sup
pressed and that although the admin
istration was officially informed OF
frcuds IS early as 1899, no investiga-
ton was ordered until 1909 The re-
fusal of the Republicans to permit
congressional Investigation by a party
vote. OF both houses Is discussed. and
the detailed vote OF the house and SEN
ate is given The chapter devoted to
civil service abuses makes a strong
against the present admins
tration Of the law in comparison with
the strict compliance of the Demo-
cratic administration.
Official corruption In the interior
department is described as Widespread.
and evidence is produced to show the
extent of the land frauds and the Sc
crccy that has been maintained as 10
the result of any 5investiga TONS that
may have been undertaken
Hypocrisy Exposed.
The other more important issues
treated somewhat fully are The Phil
ippines. Republican extravasance.'
Reciprocity and the Panama affair
Irrigation. ship subsidy and the execu-
tive pension order are discussed brief
". The vaciflath1g record OF the Re
publican party and OF Presidents Nc
I6inley and Roosevelt on silver and BIZ
metallism. showing how they have
played fast and loose with unsound
money. make very Interesting reading
when put alongside of President
Rooseyelts positive assertion in his
letter OF acceptance that we believe
In the gold standard as fixed By the
usage and verdict of the business
world. and that the only real way 10
keep the question from becoming un-
settled is TO keep the Republican party
in mower"