Show A FEATURE OF THE PERIOD A temporary oo in 10 of the labors of the ways and means cono ailt valt tee fee now engaged in pro preparing pAring a re vision of the tariff schedule remarks that the worst feature of tariff change is the uncertainty of its ita perio 1 or in ou bation 1 I tue feature of every national election is never in the terms of the platform though they cm ugly enough 8 from a standpoint nor in the bad recerd of the candidate canul date for honors which like likewise has its ice spells of looking it is ia the period of uncertainty which takes possession of the countr count counter rr that gives to every election some of the effects of a pestilence with the defeated party there to do always a species of nightmare in the contemplated ruin that is acome to come when the winning winnin party shall ahall carry LAO ito effect the program of its ita campaign with the winners the nightmare comes from the long d lays or positive failures to prosecute that same program aud and fo the struggle progresses from one election to another with frith scarcely enough time in the interim to allow the currents of trade to recover their momentum for another blockage blacka bloc kaie le it was ec oc arcely five years ago that chat he be country was waa paralyzed over an attempted tariff reform re forn the party in power though at the eleventh hour bour hua hau to do something in testimony of its good faith so a tariff bill was introduced neither its framers nor any one else alee acquainted with the political situation had the tb faintest lain test idea it auld ever become a law and jt it never did but the wool crop tumbled from 17 to 12 cents jutt junt the same on the strength 0 it A few boston and philadelphia commie sion elon men mader made fortunes and a lot of western wool growers went to pieces there fehere is no doubt that the depressed condition of trade now is in part the result ol 01 this ghostly lipec CY or ol something oom ething in the dim it if bot quite im future in the final reckoning up of the evils ot of an irrational partisanship we believe these seemingly innocent fictions put forth every four years in the form of party platforms will have much to answer for it is nod nat remarkable that gamblers an i princes of specula speculation speculate ti in generally look with long ing eyes toward elec election tsen day it is their natural harvest barvest tume |