The Alaska daily empire., 1914-10-20
DEMOCRATIC TEXT BOOK.


 Nothing like the Democratic text Text Book for 1914, now being distri- buted, has ever been issued before. It Is a chronicle of brilliant achievements It recites the fact that not since the administration of George Washington has q single Congress enacted 80 much legislation of big moment to all the people,
 The volume opens with challenge in the form of twenty.two questions addressed to the Republican party, asking which of the great measures passed by the Sixty.third Congress, and invariably supported by Republican members, would be repealed if the Republican party should be returned, The final, question Is: Do you en- dorse the actions of those Republi- can leaders who excoriated the Presl' dent for not seizing Mexico City, at the point of the bayonet, when they knew that by so doing, he would have produced in the Western Hem. isphere what there is in the Eastern Hemisphere-Hell on Earth?" The Democratic triumph In this particular instance is heralded in the caption printed on the front cover: WAR IN THE EAST! PEACE IN THE WEST! THANK GOD FOR WILS0N!"
 The opening chapter in the book proper is entitled What Woodrow Wilson and the Sixty.third Congress Have Achieved" in which are recited fifty.two fultillments of pledges to the people. record not only unsurpassed but unappIoached by any other polit- lcal party in the history of the Unit. ed States.
 Following this chapter is one telling of the wonderful story of "Watchful Waiting" It was prepared under the supervision of the State Department and relates authoritatively the admir- able manner in which President Wilson handled the Mexican situation. The text book contains a number of eX' cerpts from editorials warmly endors' ing the result attained, which appear. ed in Republican and Independent newspapers, particularly in the Pitts burgh Gazette-Times, Sowned and edit ed by United States Senator George T. Oliver, and from the Ohio State Journal The historic value of this chapter is unestimable.
 Of course, the Federal Reserve Act and the Underwood-Cummings Tariff Act are dwelt upon at length. The chapters devoted to these measures are rich in information and are writ ten in a remarkably unbiased vein, the facts making partisanship unneces sary.
 Under the caption, "The President Prevents the Greatest of Strikes" Is told for the first time and in detail the story of how a tie-up of all the l Western railroads, which would have lasted many weeks. if not months was forestalled by Woodrow Wilson appealing the patriotism of rail road presidents and railroad laboring men alike. The work of the Federal board of conciliation and of the Presi dent himself is brilliantly and faith fully related, much of the official cor respondence in the negotiations be ing published for the first time. Three notable chapters are those containing Republican and Bull Moose approvals of the acts of Democratic President and Democratic Congress. The first contains more than 100 excerpts from complimentary editorials appearing in opposition papers; the second is de voted to portions of speeches deliv. cred by Republican and Bull Moose members of Congress explaining why they considered it their patriotic du ty to disregard party lines and fol low the Democrats, and the third con tains a record of Republican and Bull Moose votes in the House and Senate | for Democratic measures.
 What Woodrow Wilson and the Six. ty-Third Congress have done for the farmer in the way of improving cred. it and assisting him in marketing his crops is described in several chapters It shows, that. upon analysis, the az. riculture problems of the country prove to have received more attention than the public generally realizes.
 No less importance than those deal ing with what has been done for the farmer are the chapters setting forth legislation enacted and administrative measures taken in behalf of the labor ing man.
 A perusal of the table of contents shows that not subject having the slightest political interest has been overlooked in the preparation of this important and compact little book of 352 pages. The work of compilation was under the supervision of a com. mittee composed of Robert w. Wool. ey, chairman and editor; Senator Ben jamin F. Shiveley, of Indiana; Repre- sentative E. T. Taylor, of Colorado; and E. E. Reed, of New Hampshire, and former Governor of the Canal Zone Richard F. Metcalfe. Most of the chapters were written by such we'll known Washington correspondents as D. Hastings MacAdam, Otto Praeger, and Maurice Splain.