Show SPREAD OF THE PROTECTION 1 SENTIMENT i Ito I The New York Times says if it were to judge from appearances it would I say that the United States would within with-in a measurable period be without opposition op-position to the doctrine of protection This would be its judgment from appearances ap-pearances but its best judgment is I that a reaction towards commercial I and Industnialfreddcimls bound to come and that If the protective tariff shall ever again be made a distinct political issue the popular verdict will be against it After making some comments on Democratic votes in the senate recently recent-ly the Times says What is the meaning of this change It Is not a simple problem but there are a few significant facts to which it is worth while to give attention In the first place the tariff question has been obscured in the public mind by the money question and this is as true for the advocates of sound money as for those of free silver Either body would take almost any policy as to I the tariff if they could get what they want on the financial issue and both I regard the tariff with Indifference There Is a very great deal of truth in all that In the campaign of 1S9G tariff like all other issues was dwarfed by the one overshadowing issue of free silver While congress was called in extra session to deal with the tariff still the money question is the one that is uppermost in the minds of the people and advocates of the single gold standard and of the double standard are convinced that there will be no material and permanent improvement im-provement in business until our monetary mone-tary system is placed on a sound basis As to what this sound basis is of course they differ When people are convinced that their financial and business bus-iness troubles are traceable to one great cause they give small heed to lesser ones And this is a reason why the protection sentiment has seemingly spread over a wider area of country than ever before and more people accept ac-cept it When the financial question is once settled that of tariff is certain to recur And when it does recur it is not at all improbable that both the great parties will be willing to accept greatly modified views of it compared with what they have been in the past I Just now protection is having a saturnalia satur-nalia A feast of a different kind will I succeed It |