Review of reviews and world's work . having the tariff re-vised by its friends, there now seems to be agood deal against having it revised by its toointimate friends. Enormous pressure was,in fact, put by private interests upon someof these so-called insurgent Senators, to getthem to fall in with the prevailing would seem hardly likely that Mr. Taftreally intended in his indorsement of thetariff work of the extra session to call uponthe Republicans of the Middle West to re-pudiate such Republican leaders as cannotconscientiously praise that piece of legisla-tion. Just what the new
Review of reviews and world's work . having the tariff re-vised by its friends, there now seems to be agood deal against having it revised by its toointimate friends. Enormous pressure was,in fact, put by private interests upon someof these so-called insurgent Senators, to getthem to fall in with the prevailing would seem hardly likely that Mr. Taftreally intended in his indorsement of thetariff work of the extra session to call uponthe Republicans of the Middle West to re-pudiate such Republican leaders as cannotconscientiously praise that piece of legisla-tion. Just what the new tariff bill really isour readers had an opportunity to knowthrough the expert analysis of the bill pub-lished in this magazine last month. Thatanalysis has been widely reproduced by thedaily press and much commented upon; and,so far as we have seen, no one ha:, arisen todeny the accuracy of its statements or to re-fute the method by which the writer of ourarticle proved that the Pavne-Aldrich law is THE PROGRESS OF THE li^ORLD. 393. Photograph by Matzene. Photograph by Clinedinst. Photograph by Paul Thompson. MR. .\LV1.\ H. S.\XDERS. MR. B. IKOF. IIKNRY C. THE MEMBERS OF THE NEW TARIFF BOARD. revision upward and not revision down-ward. Just why Mr. Taft should appearas a more unqualified advocate and supporterof the new law than any of the men whodrafted it or any of the attorneys for spe-cial interests who secured what they wereafter is a little hard to understand. ,, ,n ; It is one thing to explain and Nol Quite , , , , ^ ^ c the Best defend one s acceptance or a com- ^^ promise measure like a tariff bill and it is quite a different thing to hold it up for laudation as the best ever. ]\Ir. Taft savs that this bill is the best tariff that the
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