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Show WHY MAKE DELAY? Word comes from the East that the Democratic leaders are not in favor of an extra session of Congress upon the inauguration of President Wilson. Sonator O 'Gorman of New York is quoted especially as opposed to the idea of a special sossion, arguing that it would be a bad public policy, as the call for an extra session would be certain to have the effect of disturbing disturb-ing the present prosperous business conditions. He argues that tho interval inter-val between President Wilson 's inauguration in-auguration and the meeting of Congress Con-gress on tho first Monday of December Decem-ber thereafter, cau more profitably be spout, in giving consideration to the general situation aud discussing among loadiug Democrats what ought to be done in the way of tariff revision, than in precipitating that revision by means of an extra session. Tho argument argu-ment is that all is well at present and that there needs to bo no disturbance of conditions that aro so satisfactory. All that is well enough, and it is perhaps both good politics and good public policy to postpone consideration considera-tion of the tariff question until the Democrats can come to a fair working work-ing agreement about what ought to be done. But in that view of the caso, what defense is there for the long aud labored efforts of tho Democrats in the House of Representatives to precipitate pre-cipitate tariff legislation last summer? The reason for such legislation at that time, as given, was that the country was suffering- for the Jack of Democratic Demo-cratic revision of the sugar tariff, tho metal schedule, and tho wool tariff. But if the country was suffering for tho lack of this Democratic revision of those schedules lost summor, how docs it happen that it is not suffering suffer-ing for tho lack of that legislation now If And what reason can be given to fchow that the country will not be suffering next summer for that same legislation just as it was suffering for it last summer? There docs not seem to bo any reason whatever for postponing the; Democratic tariff legislation, provided always that it bo assumed that such legislation will benefit the country, as tho Domocrats claim that it will, and that business will be hclpod and tho country enriched by that legislation. legisla-tion. If these claims aro true, thcro should be no delay in calling that extra session, and gelling this beneficial bene-ficial legislation upon the statute books at the earliest possible date. |