Show only few weeks tribulations ago the prospects were abat congress would meet to die cuis the cuban hawaiian and money questions without reference being made to the tariff but the constantly increase deficit anier the dingley bill has bince mad it to even strong ad journals euca aa abo new sun and philadelphia press that flag of the most pressing needs of the hear is a change in the present that will make the income equal the outgo and disarm the opposition abat so persistently flaunts in the face of orthodox republicans the monthly shortages ehor under the bill that the services eer vices of a thecial session of congress and was avowedly paced to prevent the bankruptcy of the nation threatened by the wilson gorman mea eare it the tariff is again taken up inan effort to eo adjust the schedules as to fiord the government ample the chances are abat the work of baat summer will be undone and an endless tariff debate ensue which will teed to inject the tariff controversy into the of next year thit strong republican papers should candidly and frankly acknowledge the shortcoming short comine of the dingley bill and its early failure as a revenue producer may be looked upon with suspicion by the democrats as an to the money question in the background and tariff to abe fore but it is not reasonable to suppose that the republicans would attempt to pi prominence to the blunders ot the epenial ee eelon which ar now inseparably associated with the tariff question there ia no use denying it the re are in quandary last year they did attack the aileon gorman bill on the ground that the balance of trade was against us or it was not but to the contrary was the most favorable enow ing ever made in the history of the coultry couf try but the republicans did ay abat the bill was bankrupting the nation by rolling up an annual deficit of about yet those bame who aw terrible awaiting ue be of lack of revenue labored during abo hot days of last june and july and forth a measure that has al ady produced ah alarming deficit of nearly and eevea promise ut draining the treasury of the gold reserve and the money emptied into the cub treasuries by the union pacific pur ch seers there are time when to be a acan i to invite perplexities that apparently lave no endine and no remedy save defeat |