The Washington herald., 1914-10-03
Chapter Missing from Tezt-book.

The Democratic campaign textbook has been
issued and in literary style it is model It makes
liberal quotations from the addresses of President
Wilson, Secretary Bryan and Secretary Lane, and
these quotations give the book literary tone that
will meet with the approval of literary critics and
no doubt command good sale. The book may be
disappointing to the Democratic orators who use
it in preparing their appeals to the voters be-
cause of what it does contain, but because of what
will not be found in its pages. One of the cardinal
issues in the campaign of 1919 the arraignment
of the Republican party for the high of living
anil the promise of the Democrats to relieve the peo
pie from this burden by reducing the tariff.
Our present energetic and genial Postmaster Cen
erai then had charge of the Democratic speakers
bureau and he saw to it that the campaign orators
literally supplied with facts and figures to fasten
upon the Republicans this high cost of living against
which the people bitterly complained, and to make
it absolutely clear that the election of Mr. Wilson
and Democratic Congress would give them instant
relief The Democratic literary bureau also sounded
the changes this high cost of living and the promise
of the Democrats to make everything cheap. The
same Democratic spelbinders will again take the
stump this fall to show the people why the Demo-
cratic party must remain in power to continue the
era of good times peace earth and good will to
cost of living and the promises they made two years
ago When they turn to their political bible and
look for the chapter upon the high cost of living and
dow it has been reduced they will be disappointed
They will not be able to find it mentioned in the in
dex or in the general heads, or even the subheads
of the book They will find chapter Campaign
Promises Kept" but in the text reference to this
paramount question of the high cost of living.
The only place the orator will find any help what
is in inconspcuous paragraph of half dozen
lines at the bottom of page 1o-and we mention this
for the benefit of the Democratic spelbinders-where
il is stated that before the war the advertisements
of great department stores showed reduction in
the prices of cotton and silk hosiery and underwear
velvetS, bath robes watches, bronze statuary and
few other necessaries. If the Democratic orator is
talking to the silkstocSing democracy he readily
show that the of outtting ladies and gentlemen
of high degree had been reduced by the Democrats,
but that the had again cut off these mportatons
If his audience should, however, be made up of men
who do not wear silk underwear and who listen to
the factory whistle or look at the town clock when
they want to know the time of day, our Democratic
spebinder will be embarrassed by quoting this para
graph. 1t may not satisfy the people when they ask
if the cost of meat and potatoes bread, and sugar
have been reduced by the Democrats have the orator
read President Wilson's tribute to "the constitution
of peace" Mr. Bryans tribute to the peace of the
world" or even Franklin Lanes prose poem, The
Makers of the Flag" Some unpoetic hungry man
may suggest that when the people ask for bread they
are given oratory.
Postmaster General Burleson is using the parcel
post to bring the producer and the consumer to-
gether, but the high cost of living which he de-
nounced Republican calamity two years ago,
continues to grow higher under the Democratic ad
and there is nothing in the textbook
to show that this is either delusion or Republican
SANDER, or even if true, that the European war did
it There ought to be supplement to the Demo-
cratic textbook and it ought to be prepared by the
Postmaster General even if he has to go back to
his old campaign literature of 1912