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Show IT HAS FAILED ' ' , TO MAKE GOOD Tho country Is paying in port to dny for the untried experiment' of a smashing of the tariff last fall. Never Nev-er beforo had tho Congress g'-Hio to . far. It had been more moderate. I There is no use to complain. What has been done can't bo undone, uutll ' some later day. The best plan is to 1 make tho best of it and remember There is a slump In steel. Naturally. Natur-ally. Tho tariff Maw hit that and hit It -hard, It dealt severe blows to pthoc industries. Other laws ot a re-i re-i t strictive character passed within the last few years have had a tendency to reduce operating profits. Tho producer pro-ducer 'finds competition sharper. Ho has to meet It. How can that be dono mo:o swiftly nnd 'effectually until ho can get his bearings end push along on a new course than to reduco his working force and cut wages of those remaining? The worklngman always stands to lose when national laws are passed striking at tho manufacturer. This Is not affected in the slightest by difference dif-ference in personal opinion, it is a fact too patent to need argument. It is a very present condition confronting confront-ing the people today. Reforms are excellent, but too radical rad-ical reforms always demand a -pec-lal price tor payment . Tho country is today paying for the radical cuts in the tariff schedules. sched-ules. It they had brought a redaction redac-tion In the cost ot living the lesults, would not have been as bad us they are. Tho slashing had left us all the disadvantages, and up to this time at least has brought us none of the great advantages that those behind the reform figured to a certainty must como because they could not help it If the people will only Iear In mind what was promised and what haB not been given they need have no trouble trou-ble in figuring out the problem of existence today. It is no secret. This man may de-, .clare that It is merely a conspiracy of the manufacturers and the other man may lay it to the damnable railroads, rail-roads, but after all, to be fair and frank and honest, we must all teak ize, that behind all the excuses and -the suspected attempts at coercion Ilea the plain fact that the present tariff law hasn't met the advance notices. It hasn't made good. Syra- . cuse, N. Y., Journal. |