The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1910-01-06

prices are high, purchasers seem to have
had the price. Everybody has been busy.
The railroads. the merchants, the clerks,
the postoffice department, the express
companies; in fact, everyone has been
for weeks taxed to the limit to handle
the evidences of restored prosperity.
Even the poor immigrants have sent
$50. OOO 900 abroad to the folks at home.
And to think, if they could, the lnsur-
gents would have prevented it all by de-
feating the tariff law.
But it must be said for some of the
Insurgents that they are repentlng and
irving to get back into the party again.
They have found out that they can
neither rule nor ruin and that does not
pay to revolt just for the s. IF being
rebelious. It might have been dear,
very dear, experience for the people, but,
happily, little harm was done and all dan
ger seems to be past Still, it is better
not to be too trustful of a repentant
rebel. Better to elect in the future men
who can be trusted to put the interest of
their country before self.
Already much progress has been made
by Congress appropriation bill has
passed the House and several others are
about ready to be reported. Two i'm
portant railroad bills have been sent to
the Senate from the House, and now
that Congress has re assembled
. busy DAYS in both Houses are
the order. The program has not been
fully mapped out yet, but when adjourn
ment comes it will find much important
and needed legislation enacted.
Both Congressional Committees are
hard at work in anticipation of the years
elections. The Republicans Iegitimatey
at their permanent headquarters and the
Democrats less legitimately using the
minority room at the House of Repre-
sentatives Office Building. where they
have force at work sending out mail
The Democrats are claiming that Repub-
lican leaders are expressing doubt and
fear, while the fact of the matter is the
opposite is the real truth.
Chairman Mckinley and Secretary
Loudenslager, of the Republican Con-
gressional Committee, both express
great confidence in the outcome, and
neither will be surprised to see larger
Republican majority in the Sixty-second
Congress than in the present.
Of course, there will be some changes
some seats lost and some gained-but
the net result should be gain of several
members. The people are very well sat
isfied with the administration, and be-
lieve that President Taft should have a
Republican House and Senate to support
MIN throughout his term Not every
thing that is to be done can be accom-
plished by the present Congress, and to
have Democratic House of Representa-
tives in the next Congress would check
all legislation, renew tariff agitation and
throw US back where we were a year
ago. 1t is not believed the people will do
any such thing.
Inc only thlhg charged against the lie
publican party, ard a wrong charge at
shat, is the high prices. But it is found
5hat higher prices prevail even in Eng
land and France and Germany, with the
difference tina. srsser there the people
Simply J. re 10 so without, while here
:, nearly everyone mas the means to live
comfortably and well. Prices in them
selves are not the result of Republican
ism, but having the price is, and that is
why the people sustain the Republican
party, and will continue to do so.