The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-06
REPUBS' TEXTBOOK
ISSUED LAST NIGHT BY NATIONAL
 COMMITTEE.
The Volume Contains in Detail an Ex- planation of the Various Ques- tfops That are Under Dis-
 sion fn CampafGu

New York. Sept. s.--The Republican campaign text book for 1908. was fs- sued tonight by the Republican Na- tfonal Committee.
 It is volume of 53s pages, and contains In detail an explanation of the various questions that are under discussion in the present Presidential campaign and the attitude of the Re- publican candidates thereto contrasted In some cases with the present or past attitude Of their Democratic oppon- ents.
 The tariff question fs dealt with at great length and it's history and, what 1t has done for the country brought out strongly. t
 Perhaps the most persistent com- plaint made against the protective tar- in. says the book, Ifs the cry that the tarin is the mother of trusts to use the careless words of departed mo- nopolist.
 Trusts, however. are not a product confined to the United States or to pro- tective countries, as free trade Eng land Is covered with them from one end of the country to the other.
 "Of the many satisfactory reasons for maintaining a protective tariff. the greatest of course will be that of the wages insured to the American work fngman.v
 The question of labor conditions is gone into most thoroughly Tables showing the number of men employed during Republican and Democratic years are given and the figures make 1t appear that there were moro per. sons employed during the administra- ton of Mckinley and Roosevelt than during any period of Democratic rule. The tables also show that employees worked fewer hours and received high CT wages.
 Much has been said, according to the text book, upon the question of cam paisn contributions and publicity It adds:
 "A careful analysis. however, of the utterances and pledges of the two can- didates, the two National Committees and the law makers of the two par- ties upon this subject shows that the Democratic promises have been in all cases vague and spacious and in such terms as to really supply little of the publicity which they pJirport to sup ply. while the Republicans have a1- ready actually prohibited, through Re- publican legislation in Congress, cor. poration contributions to campaign funds and provided for absolute pub- licity far in excess of that vaguely promised by the Democratic candidate and committee
 The charge is made that the Demo- cratic pledge of publicity relates only to part of its fund and refers to the agreement reached at airview, by the Democratic Committee. on the recom- nendation of Bryan and Kern, to the effect that "it will accept no individual contribution above $10.000 and that 1t will make public before election all individual contributions above s100."
 Under this proviso of the Democratic publicity plan. says the book. those de- siring to avoid publicity in contribp- uons in excess Of $100 could readily do so by dividing the proposed gift Into as many separate contributions of $100 or less as might be required to make the total of the larger sum.
 Of MT. Taft's relations to union ia- bor, the text book says.
 Secretary Taft's whole public ca- reer, and it is an extensive one con- tains no incident in which he has ever by word or act. arrayed himself against the principles of trade unionism On the other hand, he has been its con- sistent friend and advocate. His re- cord shows that not only were his sympathies with the organization but that his actions were those of \friend many years before either he or the American people had thought of him as Presidential possibility"