The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-03
Democratic Book DeVOteS Much
 Attention to Tariff
CORPORATIONcONTRIBU
The Assertion Is Made That Roosevelt, During His Career, Has Been Free Trader Tariff Reformer
 and a Standpatter.

Washington, October 2.-(SpeciaL)-The democratic congressional committee today issued from it's headquarters here the campaign text book for the 1906 congress sional campaign The book should be i'll the hands of every democratic voter in the country. It is a splendid exposition of the issues in the present campaign. It states the democratic position fairly and surely on every question before the coun- try and is terrific indictment for the republican administration misdeeds and shortcomings.
 The book was largely prepared by Rep resentative Livingston, who for several months has devoted practically all of his time in a painstaking effort to make the book the best issued from a political com- mittee In this he seems to have met with every success.
 Much Space Devoted to Tariff.
 Naturally the campaign book devotes most of it's space and makes the leading issue that of the tariff The subject is handled exhaustivey and the iniquity of the present system fully exposed. The book goes extensively into the several tariff acts beginning with the first admin istration and concluding with the enact ment of the Dingley law.
 Tt appears says the book, that in forty-fve years the republicans have changed or revised the tariff law forty eight times. Deducting from forty-five years the sixteen years that the republi- cans have not controlled legislation shows that in twenty-nine years they tinkered with the tariff forty-eight times, or on an average of nearly once every seven months But at last the republicans and their allied friends and providers of fat campaign barrels, the protected mono polies have secured measure that has so fostered and fattened the corporations that they are quite willing to stand pat, es- pecially as they have succeeded in defeat ing the reciprocity treaties, to provide for which the tariff schedules were purposely increased 20 per cent beyond the rates that the protected monopolists named as sufficient to protect them from compe- tition. Hence the people are now burdened with this rate, plus a revenue and pro- tective rate, three all told"
 Prices at Home and Abroad.
 The book also deals at length with the difference in prices here and abroad Tables are furnished showing that in thousands of instances the American manufacturer charges often an excess of 100 per cent more to the American pur- chaser than the foreigner. Specinc ln- stances are given in every case Prac- tically everything the American housewife or the American farmer or mechanic uses can be bought by the Russian, German or Frenchman at a greatly reduced rate
 No wonder" says the book, that or ganized labor is opposing the republican party not only on the question of labor legislation, but on the far greater issue of legislating for monopolists and giving them the opportunity to plunder the great mass of the people. Those whose incomes are stationary and who get no increase to correspond with the increase in the cost of living, in worse plight than other people The aged man or widow with small but fixed income, finds near ly one-half of it's purchasing power cut off and themselves unable from age or h. firmity from working to increase their incomes. Nothing remains for such un- fortunates but the pinching economy that comes hard, when comforts should be the rule The grasping trust and corporations a sthrough the monopoly created by protectionism, sucking the life blood of those with limited incomes to the tune of 47 per cent. That is republican usury made legal by the statute known as the Dingley tariff law"
 Corporation Contributions.
 Many other subjects. especially the con- tribution of the life insurance companies to the republican campaign fund of two years ago are freely discussed in the book. Much of the testimony of the in- vestigating committee in New ork Is embraced and officials of the insurance companies are quoted directly In sub- stantiation of the charges made at that time. The positions of the two parties on the trust question. legislation framed by the republicans to benefit them the Presidents opinion of his predecessors form chapters in the book. In the discus sion of the 93 panic letter from former Secretary of the Treasury Carlisle ap- pears in which it is conclusively shown that it was the purpose of the republican administration to issue the bonds which the Cleveland administration was after wards compelled to stand for Altogether the book is a highly creditable document. replete with information so arranged as to make 1t invaluable for campaign speak CTS.
 Most VoIumlnous Vet Issued.
 Bearing the motto. "equal rights to all, special privileges to none" on it's title for use in the approaching congressional campaign is of the most voluminous of any similar publications heretofore gotten out, being composed of two hun dred and fortv-three pages.
 After quoting in full the platform adopt ed by the national democratic convention at St. Louis in July 1904. the book enters into an exhaustive history of the pro tective tariff system. going back to the first act of 17s9.
 Various tables follow giving a list of the articles upon which in the earlier days duty was imposed. while paralleled with them is a table showing rates under the Dingley tariff act
 Tariff history it is maintained, dis proves the republican platform conten- tion that democratic tariff has always been followed by business diversity a republican tariff by business prosperity. T It is asserted that all the panics in this country have occurred under repub- lican auspices, and with the highest pro tActiye tariff and that in France the CONTINUED ON PAGE 2l