Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-06
|G. OF. TEXT BOOK OUT WITHDRAW FOR GOFF
Literature Ad Libtum Furnish SWsher and Scherr Agree to
ed by National Committee. Retire From Race.
VOLUME OF 536 PAGES WEST VIRGINIA ROW ENDS
Touches Upon Everything From Judges Acceptance of Nomination
Wages to Tariff. Expected to Bring Harmony.
DISCUSSION OF PLATFORMS REP UBL1CANS NOW HOPEFUL
Threatened Result in
System of Dealing Victory in sae-Party
porations." Perturbation Is Allayed
Literature Ad Libitum Furnish
ed by National Committee.
VOLUME OF 53e PAGES
Touches Upon Everything, From
Wages to Tariff.
DISCUSSION OF PLATFORMS
administration Seeking Logical
System Of Dealing With Cor
porations.

NEW YORK, September 5.-The repub-
lean campaign text book for 1905 was is
sued tonight by the republican national
committee. 1t is a volume of I56 pages
and contains in detail an explanation OF
the various questions that are under dis
cussion in the present presidential cam
paign and the attitude of the republican
candidates thereto contrasted in some
cases with the present or past attitude OF
their democratic opponents. The pur-
port of the book is to furnish in concise
form for reference such information as
is likely to be required by speakers,
writer's and others participating in the
campaign. Subjects likely to receive es-
pecial attention in the campaign, such
as control of corporations, the money
panic and the relief afforded by the
Treasury Department, wages and prices,
tariff, the Philippines and the work OF
the army and the navy. are presented as
fully as practicable. Besides these sub
iects the book contains the acceptance
speeches of William H. Taft and James 5.
Sherman, and articles on prosperity, pub
licity of campaign contributions. the at
titude of the two parties toward colored
citizens, guarantee of bank deposits
President Roosevelts administration. out
line Of the work of the Sixtieth congress.
the platforms of the two parties and Will
liam J. Bryan's speech of acceptance.
Speaking of the regulation OF corpor-
atoms, the text book says:
Concentration of Power.
1.-THE enormous concentration of COM
mercial power in a few hands has been
one of the marked characteristics of the
past decade and has aroused the country
IF ha and
economic facts involved.
1.-The administration holds that the eff
ficient business man should be fully re-
Warded for the great services he renders
to the public. 1t desires in every way to
support and foster honest business.
themselves, or with the acquisition of
wealth, but only with certain forms OF
corporate organization and management
and certain methods by which such
wealth is acquired.
Led by President Roosevelt the ma
tional administration has therefore been
dealing with corporations along the lines
of a consistent policy which has never
changed in principle. 1t has enforced the
laws that make for fair competition and
equal opportunity and has made them es-
sential parts of our commercial system.
Effect of Antitrust Law.
"The Sherman antitrust law has also
been wisely used by the administration
to put an end to those forms of combina-
lions which are directed either at total
of proper competition or at
the destruction of competitors by unfair
means. The administration has recog-
nized that combination to a certain ex-
tent is necessary and proper. but that on
the other hand certain forms of combina-
lions, from their peculiar purposes and eff
pIno rlU In q q r.
est.
Again, the republican party has placed
upon the statute books a number of fun
damental acts greatly strengthening the
power of the administration to carry out
the policies thus outlined"
In this connection the text book men
tons the Elkins law of 1903, the rate bill
of 1905 and the creation of the Depart
ment of Commerce and Labor.
In conclusion the work says:
Control of Corporations.
by the slow process of education, by
testing of present methods available and
by suggesting new ones the work Of the
administration has been leading up to-
of dealing with corporations which it is
clear must soon come. The final Solu-
ton of this question must be some eff
cient system of regulation, some control
of corporations which shall be positive
and active.
NO such system can be reached until
the public believes that it is necessary.
Such public opinion is rapidly growing,
and will in time bear fruit in such a sys-
tenn, but when this system comes, as it
will, it will be largely the re-
suits of the process of education and in
telligent publicity that for the last eight
years has been carried on by the republic
an administration in connection with cor
porate affairs
The article on the money panic gives
a history of the panic of 1907, its causes
and the measures adopted to prevent their
text book, was financial, not industrial
or commercial The action taken to meet
1t and check it, including that taken by
Secretary of the Treasury Cortelyou; is
detailed, and the Secretary's able man.
agement. 1t is declared, deserves high
National Monetary Commission.
In addition to the emergency legislation
adopted by Congress on the recommended
ton of President Roosevelt, it is pointed
out that a national monetary commission
was appointed to inquire and report to
Congress at the earliest practicable date
what changes are necessary or desirable
in the monetary system of the United
States.
The tariff question is dealt with at great
length and it's history and what it has
done for the country brought out strongly.
Since 1897 to the present time the
Dingley law has been in operation" says
the book, land under it the United States
has shown progress and prosperity
never before known in the history OF
The tenets of the democratic party be-
ing to the effect that a tariff should be for
revenue only, while many of the leading
democrats advocate absolute free trade,
1t is not difficult to draw the line between
the two parties and foretell what would
be the result Of a change in our system.
which has been so successful, SO thor
oughly tried. and SO fully vindicated."