Show THE TIME NOT OPPORTUNE tho effort to entrap the president into a promise of tariff revision n his forthcoming message waa not a colossal success says tho baltimore american the time Is not opportune for tariff reform and those aho are loudest in of it have the least reason for being so the new england cotelle base its de mand chiefly on reciprocity with cap ada in advocating anything of the sort tha losses must be computed as well as the gains tariff revision undertaken by congress everyone would be entitled to a hearing and there would be more than one anxious tor the lelnd of revision that would work serious injury to the new england industries tottered by tho tariff policy of the Ile publican party if tho wildest dreams of the new englanders Engl andors concerning canadian trade could be realized they would not begin to meet tho losses that migu be rash attacks on the tariff but there does not seem to bo any reason for supposing that new england or any other part of the country would benefit materially by offering inducements du to canada the dominion would probably accept any favors that might bo extended but it is doubtful if any would be given in return the temper of public opinion and official opinion in that country is not particularly favorable to the united states and canada having already established a policy unfavorable to this country would probably continue it the canadians look upon their country as a serious rival to the united states and so long ae that sentiment is unchecked their demands will continue arbitrary it not preposterous but the strongest etron gest objection to tariff revision Is to be found in the condition of fiade when the present tariff law was passed business was in a state of collapse the effect of the law was prompt and gratifying trade revived under it and tho country became phe no prosperous been break la this prosperity to the present moment there are doubtless inequalities in the working ot the tariff as are apt to be discovered in any law after it has boen in operation home years it it were possible to correct these inequalities without impairing the myslem it would be proper to do so or if theae inequalities were such as to jeopardize the system revision would bo judic louB but experience teaches that when once undertaken der taken it is impossible tor the wisest statesman to say where it will end the effect on is generally immediate and altogether harmful the inequalities ot the present tariff have not caused in all these years during which it has been enforced one halt the injury that would be done to the business 0 the country by one month ol 01 tariff agitation in congress the best time to revise the tariff la when bus lenss Is so depressed that it cannot tie adversely influenced by the process the conviction of abo hummel the infamously celebrated new york lawyer i to be reckoned among the hopeful signs of the times says the sacramento union abe hummel Is an able but utterly unscrupulous practitioner who has long reaped a large annual harvest in the dirty work of the law he has been resorted to by men of every type and social grade to do the kind 0 work which reputable leput able lawyers decline everything hag been grist that came to his mill his methods have inclined subornation of witnesses the manufacture of testimony with all the trickeries which a fertile and unscrupulous mind could invent he has been convicted for an offense serious enough to be sure for it involved the public discrediting of a bomin whom a rich roans son had married and tor whom release was sought but bad a was the case it waa not worse than many another in which hummel has bornea a shameless but part the conviction 0 this astute professional criminal is undoubtedly one of tho results of the awakened moral sentiment has put the land thieves in prison turned tho lood lars out of st louis reorganized politics in philadelphia and Is doing oth cr good things in many other places |