Review of reviews and world's work . untry through a ripening of busi-ness conditions and the development of pub-lic opinion. The Democratic party, in spiteof its traditional pretensions on the score oftariff reform, has not even as broad a na-tional view of the subject as the Republicanparty and is not a promising instrument forfound revision. The most hopeful sign wasthat presented by the group of dissentingRepublican Senators. Their discussion ofthe tariff question was broad, patriotic, andable. One does not need to accept theirviews and positions in detail in order to per-ceive that they r
Review of reviews and world's work . untry through a ripening of busi-ness conditions and the development of pub-lic opinion. The Democratic party, in spiteof its traditional pretensions on the score oftariff reform, has not even as broad a na-tional view of the subject as the Republicanparty and is not a promising instrument forfound revision. The most hopeful sign wasthat presented by the group of dissentingRepublican Senators. Their discussion ofthe tariff question was broad, patriotic, andable. One does not need to accept theirviews and positions in detail in order to per-ceive that they represent, upon the whole, ahigher standard than that of the of these Senators decided to voteagainst the adoption of the conference re-port. These, in alphabetical order, wereBeveridge, of Indiana; Bristow, of Kansas;Clapp, of Minnesota; Cummins and Dolli-ver, of Iowa; La FoUette, of Wisconsin, andNelson, of Minnesota. These gentlemenwere well aware, of course, that the billhad a safe majority and would a They had criticised it, for one reason or foranother, very severely during the debate;and they thought it best, each man for hisown reasons of judgment and conscience, tovote against the bill in the end. Perhapsif their votes were to have determined thefate of the measure some of them might havevoted differently. It may be safely predictedthat they will have no difficulty in makingtheir positions clear to their Iowa and Minnesota Senators disap-prove in a thoroughgoing way of many es-sential parts of the law. Senator Beveridgehad for several years been identified with themovement for a tariff commission; and hemight have voted for the present measure,unsatisfactory as he may think its schedulesto be, if his commission plan had beenadopted as an instrument for securing betterresults in the future. But when his com-mission scheme was destroyed by having thevital clause taken out of it he had a veryample reason for voting against the
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