Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1904 — Another Long-Drawn Agony. [ARTICLE]

Another Long-Drawn Agony.

If the tariff reformers had succeeded in Chicago in pledging the Republican party to overhaul the tariff “now** —that is at the next session of Congress—ln the present campaign we would have had tho schedules Instead of the principle of the tariff the issue In the pending campaign. In other words, the party would have been debating with the Democrat! as to what schedules it would rev iso, how much it would revise them and how soon. The chances are that the Democrats could have promised more in the same direction. But that would not be the worst of 'it Wo would have bad stagnation in many industries until it was determined to what extent the tariff schedules rUcb affect it would be revised. It would have been another long drawn agony In Industrial America. The folly of such a basis for a campaign cannot bo overestimated. —Cedar Rapids Republican. Whltelaw Reid was s correspondent on a Cincinnati newspaper at $0 a week. s -