The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-23
TARIFF REVISION
 SENTIMENT STRONGER The Real Attitude of Pre8i- dent Roosevelt and Sec
 retary Taft. FORMER OPPORTUNIST BUT HARD STUDENT Three Courses Open to Congress When It Meets
 in December.
FORMER OPPORTUNIsT
BUT HARD STUDENT
Special Corresondence.)

scHeuuleS. With View to obtaining re- vision, as a part of an enlightened Republican protective policy, thas produced effect. has been amply shown during the last few weeks. It is no longer to be doubted that the sixtieth congress, which will meet here or the first Monday in December, will give consideration to the entire sub ject and at least vote on one of three courses.
 The first is whether the whole mat ter shall be taken out of politics by the creation of a non-partisan com mission, which shall consider the schedules and recommend to congress what changes shall be made.
 The second is the revision of the tariff with reference to certain sched- ules that are we'll known to all stud ents of the tariff. at the first or long session of the present congress.
 The third is the postponement of all action until after the presidential election of 1908, in following which policy the Republican party would de- eide to shoot Niagara with no means of safety provided other than the promise to revise some time about 1910.
 The most significant recent events leading up to situation which makes a full discussion of the tariff revi- sion inevitable next winter have grown out of the contest between the administration and Secretary Taft on one side and Senators Foraker and Dick on the other for the control of the delegates from Ohio to the Re- publican National convention. Secre- tary Taft about a year ago in a speech at Bath, Me, declared his belief that the tariff should have immediate re- vision,' but expressed the opinion that 1t could not be undertaken successful ly by his party until the party as a whole was in favor of it. This, of course, was a declaration for immedi- ate revision with strong reservation
 Senator Foraker who is very clever politician, and ever quick to see the weak spot in his enemy's de- lenses, recently made a speech in which he called on Secretary Taft to define his position on the tariff When would the secretary begin his i'm mediate revision?" Where would he begin? What schedule would he re- wise? In this way he taunted the sec retary of war with the full knowledge that the secretary in his dual capac- ity as a candidate for the nomination and the most conspicuous spokesman for the administration would not re- main silent.
 At the very time that Senator For aker indulged in these inquiries other elements of the Republican party were giving the widest publicity to argu- ments in favor of readjustment of the tariff. Mir Ellis H. Roberts, of Utica, N. Y, former treasurer of the United States and a lifelong Re- publican manager and editor, in an article in the North American Review asserted that the time had come for a general reduction of the tariff of at least 13 per cent. on all schedules. MT Roberts had left out of his argument the important consideration that some schedules are too high and some are too low, and he followed the argu- ment in favor of a horizontal reduc- ton" in order to check the piling up of a great surplus in the United States treasury.
 The tariff committee of the National Association of Manufacturers of the United States, in their arguments in favor of steps for immediate revision by means of the creation of a tariff commission, had made deep impress sion upon the public. It was no sur prise to members of congress and oth- CTS who have been watching the pro- gress and tendency of the tariff discus sion, when Secretary Taft in his Coi- umbus speech cited the resolutions of the National Association of Manufae- urers in support of his argument in favor of early action by congress. It has caused some surprise here, how ever, that the secretary, who has been noted for his bluntness and candor of speech, should adhere to his position of a year ago that tariff revision must HUI " NAASASA tetANVAL Uillll llit Il6DuDD- can party is in favor of it as a whole, and at present must be put aside so far as definite changes in schedule are concerned until after the next presi- dential election. This, of course, means that, for the present at least, both Secretary Taft. as a candidate, and the Federal administration, as a factor are in favor of the third proposition stated above, that is, postponing &C., tion and hoping that a promise to revise about 1910 will be sufficient to win in the next national election.
 The best information that can be gathered at the national capital at this time is that no number of speech es by Secretary Taft or President Roosevelt will postpone beyond this winter full and open discussion of this subject on the floors of congress Very many prominent senators and representatives are worried greatly over the prospect of having to go be- fore the American people at another national election defending the tariff while condemning it by apologies for not having revised it before, and by promises to revise it thoroughly ii they are given another chance. These men will undoubtedly bring the force of arguments to bear in favor of some action, probably the formation of 6 tariff commission.
 The men who are talking most in telligently in behalf of tariff revision are Republicans and Protectionists n Fey see that the public, at least, i; am ming aroused to the sense of in were L