Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-07
Democratic Scriptures Being
Distributed to Voters.
PLATFORMS ARE COMPARED
Pertinent Questions Put to the Re-
publican Party.
HOW ABOUT THAT INCOME TAX
Figures Of Thistles'' and 1.-THE
Struggle With Monopoly" Sam
Piles Of Chapter Headings.

Piles Of Chapter Headings.
CHICAGO. September The campaign
text book of the democratic party. pre-
pared with the approval OF the national
committee. is ready for distribution today
TO party workers and others interested
in arguments why the democratic nomi-
nees should be elected. 1t contains three
hundred pages in a bright red cover. and
is replete with comment and argument on
the various issues of the campaign. The
platforms of the democratic and republic
can parties. arranged in parallel columns,
occupy much space in the mammal. which
also contains crisp utterances of both
democratic and republican leaders. Some
Of the chapter headings of the volume are:
Pointers on the Republican National Plat
FORM Figures OF Thistles." "A Dis
credited Slogan ''The Struggle with
monopoly and Lest We Forget ". j.
Bryans speech OF acceptance. his tariff
speech and his speech on guaranteed de-
posits occupy a prominent place in the
book. which closes with detailed in
deX OF contents
Income Tax Comment.
book discusses various subjects treated
in the platforms of the partes!& The
question is asked: Shall we tax large
incomes in America as is done by pro-
gressive republics Of Switzerland and
France. also in Germany and England"
And the answer is printed: THE demo-
cratic platform says yes. The republican
platform is silent"
The same reply is given to the question:
1yA Til San, tT,ru nv
a direct vote. thus making il difficult If
not impossible for millionaires to control
the nation through the upper house,
Following these are questions whether
a reasonable percentage shall be paid by
banks to create a guarantee fund to pro-
tect depositors; whether campaign contri-
buttons shall be made public and whether
we shall do away with "billion-dollar
oficeholders debating presidential nomi-
nations" to all OF which the same reply as
above is made: 1.-THE democratic plat
form says yes; the republican platform
Is silent.
Some Harsh Language Here.
In the concluding paragraph of a
chapter on Pointers on the Republican
National Platform is the following: THE
republican platform as written is indubi-
table proof that the republican party does
not expect to give the country any real
reforms. The platform is in fact con-
tract. signed and sealed. between the re-
publican party and the exploiting inter-
ests. guaranteeing that nothing shall be
done to free the people from graft and
extortion; it Is an admission that the
money to carry on the campaign is being
drawn from the system and that means
that the system will be in control after
business principles, and when 1t puts up its
money to carry an election 1t Is sure to be
quite careful about the security taken. y
A resume Of the currency law passed by
the last Congress is given, with comment
in part as follows:
That Financial Law.
Here is a bill, designed to prevent
panics like that which swept over the
land last fall. And nowhere in the bill
do you find the slightest mention OF the
cause Of that and OF all other panics-the
distrust Of the bank deposition. II the
situation were not so serious this bill
would be the most colossal joke of the
century. The bill neither gives the elastic
currency of the Canadian plan nor the
direct government action of the demo-
cratic plan. The machinery for issuing
the emergency currency Is SO roundabout
that half a dozen panics could be under
way before the circulating medium could
get out. But the principal fault of the
bill is that 1t is not honest. The govern
the banks. even farther into partnership
than now. When the United States gov
eminent lends its name to an enterprise
the least II can do is to insist that every
one dealing with that enterprise get a
fair play. If the government is to CO.
operate in the banking business, then TIE
government must secure the bank depos-
itors. II this is not DONE then the gov
eminent should withdraw altogether and
NEEDLE no more with banks than with gro
Ceries.'
Concerning "Imperislism.
On imperialism the manual says:
The democratic party has a plan; the
republican party has no plan that it
dares to reveal. The democratic party
deals frankly with the subject, the re-
publican party is neither candid with the
American people nor with the Filipinos.
The breyity and ambiguity OF the re-
publican platform indicate a desire on he
part of the republican leaders to avoid
the subject as far as possible. Secretary
platform on this subject, as he does on
several others. by introducing matter
which cannot be found In the plat form,
or by any reasonable construction ad-
says nothing about independence, while
Secretary Taft holds out the hope of In
dependence. for to say that 1t Is unlikely
that the people viii! be ready for indie
pehoehce oefore Two generations must
mean that they will after that time be
ready and ought to have 1t. In his at
tempt to defend the holding of the Phil
ippine Islands he has laid himself open
TO just criticism by concealing the cost
OF Imperialism.
The democratic platform presents the
only solution consistent with our tradi-
tions and our ideals. 1t is to declare the
nations intention at once: this the re-
publican party has never done When the
Filipinos know that they are TO have
independence as soon as stable govern.
ment is established they will join us the
more heartily in Fastening the day of
independence. and that independence will
he easily preserved because the great ma
tions of the world will be willing enough
70 join in the neutr alization of the IS
lands"