Dooming The Tariff

The Boston Herald figures out from the changes in the Senate that the McKinley tariff is doomed in the next Congress. The new senators from Kansas un J North Dakota are said to be pledged against it and the new senators from South Dakota and Illinois are expected to range themselves on the same side, wbile Senators Hill of ?sew York and Vilas of Wisconsin may be counted against the tariff. This would make a change of twelve votes. Then the Herald counts on PlumbJ Paddock, Washburne and Davis as disgruntled witfl the tariff, and two or three "mining camp" senators who wil] go the same way. This is counting chickens before the eggs are fairly laid. A good deal depends on the national incubator, and the indications are very strong that the "tarifi reform" sentiment is going to cool off very perceptibly during the next two years. People are only just beginning to see how the tariff is going to work, and fchey are last. discovering the falsity of the tree trade predicüons. The high prices so pereistently lied about do not materialize. New industries are going to spring up and labor is to be employed at fair wages, as it lias not been fór years. The farmers already see that the tariff is to opérate to their advantage, especially after the reciprocity clauses go into operation. The tariff law itself has begun a campaign of education on its own hook. lts method of procedure is not by theoretical prediction but by actual demonstration, which the most uueducated citizen can fully appreciate. The free traders are very much afraid of this, and we may be" sure that some of the senators whom the Herald expects to waver in their republicamsm will see things as the people do. Again, in dooming the McKinley tariff in the next Congress, the Herald forgets that President Harrison will remain in the White House until March 4, 1894. His consent will be necessarv before the tariff law can be