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Show WHY A CHANGE? j fl Everyday, in a sort of delirious joy, the Demo- H crats tell us they are surely going to win this '' ! M year. SJ Assuming that for its wickedness the nation jB is to be further chastened, and that their antici- jB patlons may be realized, what then? ( BJ The first thing of course will be a change of j jB Cabinet ministers. Is Mr. Hill to be Secretary j B of State in lieu of Mr. Hay? Does that prospect 1 fl amount to an omen of good? , j BJ Or, if Mr. Belmont assumes the port- , B folio of the Treasury Department, will that add to j fl the stability of American finances? fl Do they know of any Democratic farmer who j B will Improve on Secretary Wilson's work? fl "But the tariff must be revised," is their next fl point. Who is going to do that and how will it , fl look when it is finished? How will the mere hint j fl that they are going to beIn tinkering with it affect fl the industries of the country? Will the lead pro- t fl ducer or load miner feel better over the situation .' H What did the threat to revise it cost the coiin- H try eleven years ago? t H What change is proposed anywhere that can j H possibly strike the public mind as an advantage? ' j Is it not true that the only anxiety ' that the I outs may get In? I Was it not so in 1884, and h in 1892? j H ; ' Bbp' ' What measure of legislation is proposed that win HI:,; hi be a benefit? BlPi i What policy needs a change and how is the Hjf1! ' change to be made? Hgf " I It is most difficult to imagine on what Demo- Kl i i 'j ' crats are founding their sanguine hopes, unloes Blij i on the theory that the people can no longer re- Hf'f ' it,'1 member or reason from cause to probable effect. |