The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-09-23
SEARCHL|GHT Of
THE DEMOCRACY
The Campaign Text Book
is Issued.
THE FULL DINNER PAIL
How the Republicans Think by Expert
Juggling With Figures They Can
Fill Hungry Stomachs, and
Other Notions Equally
as ChimericaI.
lBv the Agsociated Press

New York, Sept. 22.-The Demo-
cratic campaign textbook has been
completed and is about to be issued
1t makes a volume of 314 pages, dis
cusses the issues of the two parties
and reprints number of speeches.
by leading Democrats. The following
synopsis of the book has been pre-
pared by the Democratic campaign
committee:
by the way of emphasizing thu
issue of constitution opposed TO I'M
periaIism,' the Democratic campaign
book contains as a preface the ful.
text of the constitution of the United
States The place of next importance
is accorded the tariff and the trusts
sixty of the 314 pages of the volume
being devoted to this discussion
Concerning the trusts, much space
is given to evidence that the protected
combinations, having 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 conn.,
pared Nearly all kinds of hardware,
implements, machinery tools, paints,
oil, ammunition, watches, baking pow
der. condensed milk. canned goods AMI
every kind of steel products are sold
to our consumers at prices averaging
about % per cent more than those
paid by foreigners for the same goods.
Quoting President Schwah's statement
to the industrial commission that
goods were always sold cheaper fof
export, the evidence before the CHAINS
berlain Tariff Commission in England
ana numerous statements from export
journals, trade journals and CONNER
cial papers, the conclusion is draws
that nearly all of our exports of iron
and steel goods, amounting to S11l,-
600, 900 last year. are sold to foreign-
ers at at average of about four-fifths
the price charged to Americans. Never
before was so much specific. and un-
equivocal evidence presented on this
point.
Prices and Wages.
Discussing prices and wages the alb
surd methods of the Republicans In
making averages and Juggling statfs-.
tics are exposed. Particularly is the
Bureau of Labor scored for making
statistics to order for use of the Re-
publican campaign committee-statis-
ties that raise wages and reduce prices,
on paper, and produce statistical OF
artificial prosperity. The figures of
lHc OuI6du, WHICH SflOW dII lHCl 6clSS ON
only Is per cent in the cost of liv-
ing since 1897, are contrasted with
the figures Of r.. G.. Dun & Company,
which show that the cost of living was
43 per cent higher last March than
on July /, 1897, just before the Ding
ley Bill became law
Based upon Dun's figures and upon
the full and complete reports of the
railroads, covering over 100000
workers, which embrace both union
and non-union labor, and show that
wages rose at most only or per
cent from July, 1897, to July, 1908,
when they were highest. a diagram is
presented which shows that the pur-
chasing power of wages has declined
rapidly so that wage earners in 1908
could purchase only rs per cent as
much as in 1897.
The conclusion is reached that II
the dinner pail of today is to be full,
it must be only three -fourths as large
as before the 'Dingley Trusts began
their era of prosperity
"One of the most interesting and
instructive chapters under tariffs and
trusts is that showing that the average
family pays a tribute of $94 year to
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