Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1908-09-12
THE REPUBLICAN
TEXT BOOK ISSUED
THE 1908 Issue Contains 53e Pages
and Contains Many Things Of
Interest.

The republican text book for 1908
has been issued By the republican
national committee. 1t is a volume of
$50 pages, and contains In detail an
explanation Of the. various questions
that are under discussion in the pres
ent presidential campaign, and the
attitude of the republican candidates
thereto contrasted in some cases with
the present or past attitude OF the
democrats opponents.
The tariff question is dealt with at
great length and its history and what
it has done for the country brought
Uat strongly.
Perhaps the most persistent com
plant made against the protective
tariff" says the book, SIS the cry tnat
the tariff is the mother of trusts to
use the careless words OF a departed
monopolist.
TRUSTS, however, are not a product
confined to the United States or to
protective countries, as free-trade
England is covered with them from
one end of the country to the other.
"Of the many satisfactory reasons
for maintaing a protective tariff, the
greatest, of course, will be that OF the
high wage insured to the American
workingman."
The question of labor conditions is
gone into most thoroughly. Tables
showing the number of men employed
during the republican and democratic
years are given, and the figures make
1t appear that there were more per-
sons employed during the admins
tration of Mckinley and Roosevelt
than during any period of democratic
rule. The tables also show that the
men worked fewer hours and receiv-
ed higher wages,
Much has been said, according to
the text book upon the question OF
campaign contributions and publicity,
1t adds:
"a careful analysis, however. of the
~utterances and pledges OF the two
candidates, two national committees
and the lawmakers of the two par
ties, upon this subject shows that the
democratic promises have been in all
cases vague and specious, and in such
terms as to really supply little of the
publicity which they purport to sup
ply, while the republicans have al.
ready actually prohibited, through re-
publican legislation in congress, cor
poration contributions to campaign
funds, and provided for the absolute
publicity far in excess of that vaguely
promised by the democratic candi-
date and committee"
The charge is made that the demo-
cratic pledge of publicity relates only
10 a part of its fund, and refers TO
the agreement reached at Fairview
by the democratic committee, and the
recommendation of Bryan and Kern,
to the effect that cit will accept no
individual contribution above s10.0 0J,
and that it will make public before
election all individual contributions
above $780,"
OF Mr.. Taft's relations to union la
Dor, the text book SAYS:
Secretary Taft's whole public ca
reer-and it is IN extensive one-con-
tains no incident in which he has
ever, by word or act, arrayed himself
against the principles of trade union
ism. On the contrary. he has been
its constant friend and advocate. HIS
record shows that o only were his
~sympatnies with the organization. but
that his actions were those of "a
friend many years before either he
or the American people had thought
of him as a presidential possibility"