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Show IS TIIK MI XTION KKTTI.RU? Immediately after the last election tho democrats insisted that they would re open the tariff question in the next congress and foice the subject to some sort of a conclusion that would change many of tho essential features of the jMcKini ev act. There havo recently re-cently been some evidences, however, that ninny members of the party would not adhere to this programme and that congress would bo strongly urged to take tip other matters. This feeling is rellecled ill a recent article in the Atlanta At-lanta Constitution. The article in question was called forth in the course of the controversy over the speakership of tho next house, Mr. Cuisi' having been accused of being a tariff man. The Constitution says: It hupjiens tli.it Mr. CriHp was a slont advocate advo-cate of the Mills turllT hill. Inn this f;e.-t maie-s no ill (Ti.Tein e ii tm ld-w hlskers In chaw of tlio Kt. I.oiiIh Hepillc. Ciinnrl Jones has an-tioiinc;'ii an-tioiinc;'ii ti;it thcileorela man Is a pro-tariff man- a Kimdall democrat, and dcmocnits are to lt ai;, (l not only to vota at alnst him In the speakership content, but te revive a controversy contro-versy that his already licrii nettled by tha adoption of the McKinley b II. It will bo observed that the paper asserts that the Mi Kim.kv bill has sen led the ipiestion, and that it virtually virtu-ally enters a protest against reviving the controversy. In this the southern paper demonstrates its good sense. Tim operation of tho new law will gradually sweep away nearly all the objections that have been urged against it; whilo it would be simply a wasto of time in any event to attempt to repeal it before it shall havo bad a fair trial. Congress will have enough useful work to do, and it would bo worse than foolish fool-ish to plunge into another session of tariff debate. No doubt the law will be found imperfect in some respects; but such imperfection cannot be remedied reme-died until the.v shall have been brought to tho surface by the practical working of the act, and the lifty-seeond congress could not act intelligently in reference to them. |