THE reciprocity PROBLEM AND senator foraker in opening tho ohio campaign j few days since look occasion to declare himself on several questions of importance but more particularly ticul arly with reference to reciprocity and the tariff reduced to the fewest possible words senator position la tins the tariff schedules will be revised sooner or later by the republican parly the principle of protection will be rigidly and as tor reciprocity the less said about it the better it will strike the average citizen that these are rather narrow in conception and not at all in harmony with the current trend ot public opinion senator foraker is of the school he is one 0 the dozen or more men prominent in congress who still hold to the idea that the art oe making tariff schedules died with the late mr dingley and that the present law i perfection itself needless to say a very large number of senator fourakers Fo fellow citizens disagree with him on both propositions we are not saying that the need 0 tariff revision overshadows every other issue of public importance but to stand before any audience of average intelligence with alie declaration that the tariff is in the hands of a few afen who can work their own will with it as their particular property is an absurdity and insult to corn mon intelligence mr foraker forgets that times have changed since he rodo into power twenty years ago or more at that time in ohio at leant the tariff reformer wa regarded as the enemy of the state and he was the butt of all the flery denunciation that the dominant party could muster on stump and forum on him was poured the vials of wrath of those who sat in the beate of the mighty or expected to occupy them in he future looking back it Is plain that the tariff reformer of twenty years ago and later did not have much reason on his bide but the fruits of the tariff policy havo now been realized the prophecies angly fulfilled we have built up the the question now Is to find an outlet for their products po ducts it a plain that we cannot grow tidier at least the majority of by selling to each other the outputs of our own fac orlas at prices above the normal level n other words artificial prices fostered by law are aa false in principle as the lately exploded economic theory that aty cents af pf silver can by enactment be made into a dollar worth one hundred cents wo have read some place of an idal where everyone grew tien by taking in his neighbors washing and that is the balc idea underlying the stand patters school the tariff has been a wonderful factor in americas development and a wise interpretation of its will add to our national influence buethe dingley tariff was bot handed rioth from mt sinai nor lid r flerl ilg in holy writ no OM O M ot rp lson muchas mr foraker and some ot his colleagues would like to have us be hive it to be tho truth or tho matter ja that hs is shaking the lians skin to frighten voters into tho fold and whether knowingly or not ho is putting a stumbling block tn tho path of the president and other fir minded men who have not reached ohp limit of their mental growth and who are broad enough to perceive that the earitt Is but a beneficent tool of trade to be used as the occasion arises for tho best interest of the whole nation