The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-15
CAMPAIGN TEXT BOOK.
Is About to Be Issued by the Repub-
Iican Committee.

| Ia DOT wages ana PRICES, lAuSlS
! the Panama canal Cuba ana CUBAN
| reciprocity, expansion and its result
! the investigation of the postal anc
| land frauds and punishment of Of
tenders, rural free delivery, irrigation
| the record of the Republican party
| and the record of Theodore Roosevelt
i are the leading subjects discussed by
| the Republican campaign text book
/ of 1904, which is just about to be
| issued.
The following is a synopsis of the
/ book prepared by the Republican
| campaign committee:
| The four great facts it says, which
justified the Republican party in asking
the support of the public in 1900 were:
\ First, that its pledges of 1896 had been
redeemed; second, that prosperity had
come as a result; third, that develop
ments since 1886 had shown the fallacy
of the principles upon which the De-
mocracy then appealed for public sup
port; and, fourth, the conditions which
had come to other parts of the world
and their people as a result of promises
fulfilled by the Republican party in the
United States. These assertions made
in the textbooks of 1900 have been JUS
titled by the added experience of another
four years. The pledges of 1886 and
those made in 1900 have been redeemed.
The protective tariff has been restored,
the gold standard made permanent;
the Panama canal assured under the
sole ownership and control of the Uni
ted States; a department of commerce
and labor established; rural free deliv-
cry given to millions of the agricultural
community; the laws for the proper
regulation of trusts and great corpora
tions strengthened and enforced; pros
perity established; commerce develop
ed; labor protected and given ample
employment and reward; intelligence,
prosperity and good government estab-
liShed in distant islands and the flag
of the United States made the emblem
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of these great accomplishments have
been the work of the Republican party.
In each of them it has met the dis
enlargement, the opposition and the
hoStilitieS of the Democracy. 1t is upon
this additional evidence of the past four
years, evidence that the Republican
party is the party of progress and the
Democracy the party of inaction, re-
tardment and faultfinding. that the Re
publican party again confidently APP
pealS for public support in the presf-
Dental and congressional elections OF
1904
Following this introduction, the book
takes up in consecutive order the tariff,
prosperity, trusts and industrial COM
binationS, labor wages and prices, the
advance in prices, the money question,
the record of Theodore Roosevelt, the
Panama canal, Cuba and Cuban reci-
procity, expansion and its results, the
record of the Republican party, the
work of the department under the NC
merchant marine, pension and pension
laws, rural free delivery, irrigation,
public lands and numerous other sub
jects liable to be discussed during the
coming campaign.
Following the tariff chapter is a dis
cussion of prosperity, showing the
growth in manufacturing, wealth and
in general prosperity, the growth of
savings bank and general bank deposits.
the increased demand for the articles
required in manufacturing and enlarged
production of the articles manufactured,
the increase in agricultural products
and in prices of farm products. and the
value of the factory to the farmer.
THE chapter on trusts discusses the
legislation enacted for their regulation,
the record of the two parties on this
subject, the existence of trusts in other
countries and especially in those having
no protective tariff, the relation of trust
to employment, wages and prices, the
of law for the proper con-
this character during the various adj
and especially that of
President Roosevelt, the inefficiency of
state legislation, the efficiency of the
forced by the Republican party the
Northern Securities case, the work of
the department of justice and of the de-
partment of commerce and labor and
the relation of the trusts to the NOM
nation of the Democratic candidate for
president.
Every feature of the prospective
discussed is considered with
frankness, and all available informa-
ton bearing upon this subject presented
in such condensed form as is necessary
for a publication of this character. The
claim that the protective tariff increases
prices is met with facts and figures
from the economic history of the Uni |
ted States and other countries which
fully show the inaccuracy of the charge
while the relative prosperity of coun-
tries having low and protective tariffs |
respectively is also shown from official |
figures. The chapter on labor, wages |
ana prices is especially interesting and |
important since it comprises figures |
from the recent investigation of the |
bureau of labor of the department of /
commerce and labor. 1t shows beyond |
a question as a result of thorough Off |
wages during the past decade has been |
greater than the advance in the cost of |
living, the figures being based upon re- |
tail prices, the prices which the public |
must pay for the articles consumed, |
while 1t is also shown that the rate |
Of wages now being paid in the United |
States is higher than ever have been |
paid in this or any other country
The book also contains a sketch of |
he life and work of President Roose- |
7elt and of Senator Fairbanks, a dis
suSS1on OF conditions in the island ter
'itories of the United States, the pros
Oerity which has come to them under |
)ur control, the growing commerce be-
.ween those islands and the United /
States" etc: a discussion on the ere
narkable success of our diplomacy in
he east, a series of chapters on the
work of each of the executive depart
nents during the terms of Presidents
Mckinley and Roosevelt, and a chapter
IN the Investigations into the postal
rauds-