Show r LET TIlE THE ALONE T O J It seems pretty prell clear that the campaign campaign campal cam cam- pal n for tariff reduction has not made much headway in the East The Thc betten better bet bet- ten tel ju judgment of the thc people peole there has approved the protective principle because because be be- cause It has been found vel very helpful to the thc people Theories may sound 01 very well but facts convince thinking men muon In accepting tho the nomination for re election Congressman Ames of Lowell Mass not only favored a re revision re- re vision Islon 10 of f the tariff but said the time timeto to rev revise Iso is now As that time has already passed and as ns the next session of congress will be bc too short hort for the work It looks as though the colonel was talking to the tha galleries If he would consult the great employers of labor in his district he would find th that t hardly one ono of or them unless ho is a Democrat favors revision revision revision sion now or In Iii the thc ver very near future They know their business and arc en entitled entitled entitled en- en titled to be consulted The principle ha has been subjected to toa toa a a. test so severe se and has been so abundantly abundantly dantly approved by experience that tho the citizens of the tho United States arc are certainly determined to mal make o protection protection protection tion to American Industries the tho fixed principle of or our economic life Democracy will have to find some new issue Their Theil vcr very ery prosperity should compel them to abandon a I position which has proven pro untenable And nothing but the absence of or an Issue that would attract the tho masses of their theil party can account for time the leaders clinging so tenaciously to the doctrines of old |