The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1915-07-29
Political Points.

The Barnaby Mills of Fall River, Mass,
making bingham, have shut down for an
indefinite period. throwing a thousand
hands out of employment. The mana
gers say they have no market for their
goods, though they have kept in opera
ton, piling the cloth up in the store
house, in order to give their employees
work. Bingham, it should be remember
ed, does rot figure in ''war orders. 1t
is worn by American men and women,
who cannot buy it now because-unless
they are connected with "war order
factory they are themselves out of en-
ployment and short of money. The
Barnaby Mills are typical of thousands
of cases in this country
Marse Henry Watterson reckons that
"the country will not be blinded-cer-
tainly the South will not be blinded-by
the dazzling billion dollar total'' of this
years foreign trade balance. Quite
right. The country knows by this time
that our huge exports are made up of
food products which are sent abroad to
feed armies and people in countries
where warfare has supplanted industry,
and of war munitions which produce huge
profits for a few manufacturers in IL
mited area of the country. The effect
of all this is to increase the cost of living
to Americans through decreasing of
the supply of food material available for
home consumption, and to emphasize the
general lack of prosperity IN communities
where war factories do not exist but
where staple industries have been Grip
pied by the folly of Democratic tariff
legislation. Mr.. Redfield and the other
Sunny Jims of the Administration will
doubtless try to blind the country with
"the dazzling billion-dollar total" but
the country, like Marse Henry Waiter
son, has its eyes wide open.
Senator Kern of Indiana predicts that
the Senate, at the next session, will
adopt "a modified cloture" Forget it,
Senator The Supreme Courts decision
on the grandfather laws" has knocked
out cloture. The Courts ruling on the
constitutional rights of negro citizens to
vote, regardless of whether their grand
fathers could vote in 1868, means the
liberation of Congress to enact laws to
protect the colored man at the polls.
Congress is going to be Republican pref
ty soon-to wit, after March 4, 1917, and
no Democratic Senator from the South
is going to vote for cloture now. Cloture
now may mean the passage of the Will
son-McAdoo shipping bill. Cloture two
years from now means Federal election
law, and no Southern Bourbon will stand
for that.
1t is limited that Josephus Daniels
wants to run for Governor of North
Carolina. The entire navy hopes it is
true-and that Josephus will at once
resign his portfolio in order to begin his
campaign.
The Republicans of Virginia cast about
one-fourth of all the votes in that State.
The State government is Democratic, of
course, and there is but one Republican
on any of the various State boards or
commissions. He holds place in the
agricultural bureau. This is the rule in
Southern States; and in some Northern
States where Democracy rules. In Re-
publican States, however, there is al
ways minority representation on State
boards-which indicates spirit of to-
lerance foreign to the Democratic party
Now the Democratic platforms, State
and National, are always found crying
out against Republican partisanship".
The statement of the National Treas
lry for Saturday, July 10, showed bal
ance of $73, 1853, 615.53 on hand as COM
pared with balance OF Sl36, 343, GILL
covering the same items, two years ago,
when Republican laws governed revenues
and disbursements. The deficit as re-
presented by the excess of all disburse-
ments over all revenues for the fiscal
year up to July 10th was Sill, PAL, 1856. 46.
PARTY IN WINTERPORT,
Mr.. and Mrs. J. D. Foss of Whites Corner,
recently entertained party of
friends in homer of the birthdays of Mrs. Nellie
Gray and Thomas Cuddy of Bangor and their
Miss Louise Buzzell of Revere,
Mass. The grounds were illuminated with
Japanese lanterns, and the house was attrac-
lively decorated. Pretty favors were sent by
Master Eugene Buzzell from Boston. Solos
by H. E. Hartman and Thomas Cuddy of Ban
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