Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-02-10
HIGH PRICES ARE
CAUSE OF WORRY
Many congressman Fear Their
Seats viii Be Endangered
BY Dissatisfaction
FAVOR BROAD INVESTIGATION
Democrats Discuss Harmon, Marshall
and caynor for Presidential Nom-
Observation-Disclosures Candidates
y, for Speaker CaEnon's Place.

Washington.-Many of the Republ-
\ members of congress, especially
use of the lower house, who fear
Vt their seats may be endangered at
coming election, are in favor of
Wing a widespread investigation in
THE cases of the high prices of the
bcessaries of life that shall take in
le entire country. 1t is possible that
uder the scope of the resolution in
foduced into the senate by Senator
Eikins the inquiry which many of the
Republicans desire may be underta-
Zen.
Uncle Sam is looking into the mat
Der, as It. relates specifically to the
I District of Columbia, over which he
has full legal control. The committee
that is probing into the reasons for
I the high prices of food in the District
is getting much material that relates
to the rest OF the country, and 1t is
possible that this one investigation
will do much of the work that the Re-
publicans who fear a loss of their
seats, think ought to be done.
Representative j. Hampton Moore
of Pennsylvania and six fellow men,
bers of the house committee of the
District of Columbia are still hard at
the task Of trying to find out what it
is that makes everything that man
y wants to eat and to wear, cost so
much in these United States. Mr..
Moore is a protectionist of protection
4 lists and naturally he hopes it will be
proved that the tariff has nothing to
t1o with the present high prices. He
4seems to be full of confidence that
t,such will be the case, but the Demo
fBcratic members of the committee who
4 are looking into the subject believe
y that when they get through they will
have material which can be used to
the advantage of the Democratic par
ty in it's contention that the high tar
if makes high prices without a cor
responding increase in salaries and
wages.
President Deeply interested.
There is deep interest felt by
President Taft in the investigation
now in progress. The opening day of
the inquiry in the committee room of
the house of representatives was the
same day that saw the beginning of
the investigation into the activities of
the meat packers in Chicago. The lat
ter investigation is a grand jury af.
fair, but it is possible that when all
the returns are in that the evidence
adduced in Chicago will be of service
to the members of congress who are
trying to get at the facts. BY the
time the, subcommittee is ready to
report, the public will have pretty full
knowledge of the testimony of the
witnesses that have appeared before
It, and the country probably will have
made up it's mind as to the facts in
, the case and will not be moved from
x a decision by the report which the
committee turns in.
a Some of the representatives in con,
gress, Democrats as well as Republi.
cans. think that the whole thing will
resolve itself into case of statements
and counterstatements by the produc
ers, the middle men and the packers
and manufacturers. If the congress
sional committee can get the truth OF
the case the country probably will be
glad of it, provided remedy can be
applied. There are those in Wash
Ington who say, however, that the
whole investigation will be futile.
Democrats Eye White House.
Gov. Judson Harmon of Ohio, whit
will try to succeed himself in thu
chief Office of his state, has said tina
he will do nothing to further any pos
sible presidential ambition which h
may have until after he knows wheth
er the Ohioans like him well enough
to re-elect him as their chief execu
tive.
In this way the governor has tried
to take himself out of the immediate
field of presidential speculation, bu
the Democrats in Washington will no
so have 1t. The members of the pres
ent minority party in congress seen
to feel perfectly sure that they are t
control the next house of representa-
tives. The Republicans NATURAL!
laugh at this claim and say that tn,
Democrats are simply in the same OLE
hopeful mood and that hope is al
that they win get out of 1t. The Dem
ocrats retaliate with the statemen
that the majority of the people Of tn
country do not like the tariff bill AM
that they are blaming it for the higl
price of living and that on tn
strength of these two issues alone tn
Democracy is to come into power
the lower house. in the Sixty-seeon'
congress.
The Democrats are talking abou
Gov. Harmon and about Gov Marshal
OF Indiana and Mayor Gaynor OF Nel
York, and last. but perhaps, or prof.
ably las you llke), not least, WilliaI
Jennings Bryan of Nebraska, 1t is tn
seeming certainty of the Democrat
that they are to carry the next hous
of representatives that makes them Z
day SO active in their gossip about tn
party's nominee for the presidene!
md 40 Gov Harmon's desire to be lei