Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1908-09-06
PARTY
ATTITUDE ON
ALL ISSUES
REPUbLICA TEXTBOOK
COMPREHENSIVE VOLUME
Trusts, Tariff, Labor and Con-
tribution Publicity Treated at
Length; Points With Pride to
Party Achievements,

'IBy Morning journal Special Leased Wirel
New York, Sept. 5.-The republican
campaign text book for 1908 was is
sued tonight for the national commit
tee. 1t is volume of $50 pages.
The book contains the accepting
speeches of w H Taft and James S,
Sherman and articles on prosperity,
publicity of campaign contributions.
the attitude Of the two parties toward
colored citizens, guarantee of bank de-
posits, President Roosevelt's admins
trations. outline Of the work of the
sixtieth congress, the platforms of the
two parties and w j. Bryans speech
of acceptance.
Speaking of trust regulations, the
text book says
"The enormous concentration of
commercial power in a few hands has
been one of the marked characteristics
of the past decade. 1t has formed part
of the problem and has aroused the
country to a consideration of the eco
nomic facts involved therein.
THE administration holds that the
efficient business man should be fully
rewarded for the great services he rem
ders to the public? 1t desires in ev-
cry way to support and foster honest
honest business. There is no quarrel
with corporations themselves or with
the ACQUISITION Of wealth. but only
with certain forms of corporation or
ganization and management and GER
tain methods by which such wealth is
acquired.
Led by President Roosevelt the ma
tlonal government has been dealing
with corporations along the lines with
consistent policy which has never
changed. It has enforced the laws
that make for fair competition and
equal opportunity and has made them
essential parts of our commercial sys-
tenn. equaf rates front tite RAILROADS..
the highways Of commerce have been
afforded to all shippers as never be-
fore. Railroad rebates and discrim-
nations, which are the deadliest at
tacks on equality in business, have
been exposed and punished, so that
there is today less of railroad discrim-
nation being practlced than at any
time since the passage of the inter-
state commerce law in 1887.
again the republican party has
placed upon the statute books a nun'-
Der of fundamental acts greatly
strengthening the power of the ad-
ministration to carry out the policies
above outlined.
"By the slow process of educati)n
by testing of present methods avail
able and by suggesting new ones, the
work of the administration has thas
been leading up toward that logical
advance in the system of dealing
with corporations which it is clear
must come soon. The final solution
of this question must be some etfi;-
lent system of regulation. some con
troll of corporations which shall be
positive and active. The administra-
ton has consistently stood for such an
advance, believing that the present
commercial machinery is too complex
to be adjusted by the inflexible, oc.&-
sional remedy of judicial procedure.
mo such system can be reached un-
iii the public believes that it Is ne
cessary. such public opinion Is rap
idly growing and VIII in time Dear
fruit in such a system, but when TINS
system comes, as II ultimately will' II
will be largely the results of the pre-
cess OF education and intelligent pun
licity that for the last eight years has
been carried on by the republican a"-
ministration in connection with cor
porate affairs"
The tariff question is dealt with at
great length. II says in part:
perhaps the most persistent COM
plant made against the protective tar-
ff is the cry that the tariff is the
mother of trusts"
Trusts, however, are not product
confined to the United States or TO
protective countries as free trade Eng
land Is covered with them from one
end of the country 10 the other.
"Refuting the charge that under our
protective system manufacturers are
selling goods cheaper abroad than at
nome. II may be said that the uniVer-
sal principle OF business, of production
and markets. is indulged In a far less
degree in the United states than
abroad, and at no time to the injury OF
the American laborer. We also sell
many things abroad at a larger price
than we do at home. We sell things
according to the market, according TO
prices, according to supply and de-
mand, according to the universal prin-
ciple Of competition, but always to the
advantage OF the American laborer
who reaps a higher reward for his la
Dor than can be found elsewhere on
the face of the earth"
Tables showing the number OF men
employed during the republican and
democratic years are given and the
figures make It appe..f that there
were more persons employed during
the administrations of Mckinley and
Roosevelt than during any period of
the democratic party.
Tables are given to show that the
wage Increase up to 1907 from 1896
was 29.2 per cent, while the food In
crease was 26.3 per cent.
Upon the question Of campaign con-