Show THIS QUESTION OF THE TARIFF Wo notice that the claim In made by none other than Honorable James K Jones of Arkansas formerly nnd perhaps per-haps now chairman of the Democratic National committee that the present Republican House Is not going to be returned and that 1 Democratic House will bt elected at the approaching elcc ton because of the tariff Issue We are left comcwhat in darkness as to exactly what Mr Joncu means but all the same he can be fairly well interpreted I Inter-preted We think too that this cano can-o done considerably to his dlscomtlt ure The present House will be reelected re-elected on the tariff Issue or any other hat la made present in this campaign no matter what It Is and by that very act a Democratic House will not be elected The reasons for this are obvious This Is a protection country I has been built up under the protective polIcy pol-Icy I has never been so prosperous as under that policy It was never so prosperous as nowwhen It Is under that policy Once In a great while the people have gone wrong upon this tariff question They have been caught napping extraneous Isuses have come In or the chief issue call it the tariff In any given election has been befuddled befud-dled and misunderstood prejudice has come In or some popular lender may have fooled a part oC tho people part oC the time Not so however never tme so Indeed when the people have understood under-stood and they have understood per cctly well when there has been a little time for reflection They have had that time for reflection now Tho Democrats of course have proposed their tariff Issue so far as they have proposed It at all only timidly That iH 1 tho usual Democratic way But Imldly or bravely they have always found plenty of good protection arguments argu-ments against them The people them olves know tho story pretty well and just now It happens that prosperity Is good enough for them They do not want to change and they will not change I may be said as a general proposition proposi-tion that the tariff is becoming more and more a business question and that the voters generally are coining to understand derstand political questions more and more as busmes propositions and arc treating them accordingly This elimInates elim-Inates prejudice or Inherited tendencies In a great National struggle when it 19 a question of sound money on the one side and repudiation on the other they can change sides the more readily read-ily and they dot The sound money Democrats contributed much perhaps essentially to both of President Mc Kinleys elections this because the money question became a buslncsa ques tionin the minds of Just that number oC honest straightforward business Democrats So now this has become more and more the case with the tariff tar-iff question The Roosevelt tariff commission will help matters along fort for-t will help the tariff to become a busiest busi-est question also prejudice CHn be llmlnatcd and Inherited tendencies can gradually uC objlicrated u Businessmen Business-men whether Democrats I of the East the West or the South who are also buslncr men can vote like business men they can b for protection and prosperity HS wen as for hound money ind they will ba Truly l the principles of burlncss arc being applied philosophically to poll tlcil questions and It IB good for poll tics and for business also that this Is so |