Tariff Action Almost everyone interested in plex items, and eliminating the tricks. In Rather Than the subject of the tariff has un- addition to such revision, it was proposed to Discussion derstood that the present extra establish a non-partisan tariff commission that session of Congress was not called for delib- could devote scientific study to the subject eration and debate, but for the sole purpose in all its phases, and enable Congress, in fuof passing a bill. The tariff-revision work ture years, to construct a modern and defenthat is culminating now has been going on sible scheme of national taxation. continuously for four years. Any mistakes discredited Republican managers look back in the direction of radical change that the upon the great tariff debate of only four years pending measure may be found to include ago,-in which Dolliver, Cummins, Bevhave been rendered inevitable through the eridge, LaFollette, Bristow, Clapp, and a cumulative blunders of the Republican party. number of others, made their attacks upon It had promised in 1908 to revise the tariff the textile and metal schedules and upon if kept in power. The country took it at its other parts of the Payne-Aldrich bill,-they word, and elected President Taft and a Re- must wonder what sort of blindness had publican Congress. Whereupon the pundits seized them that they could so little underof the Republican party thrust their thumbs stand the nature and force of public opinion. in their cheeks and announced that they were about to spring a most excellent joke upon The country would have acceptthe American public. "We admit," they ed the proposals of the progresssaid, "that we promised to revise the high ive Republican Senators at that tariff. But be pleased to observe that we time as satisfactory fulfilment of the promdid not say that we would revise it down- ises made by the party in the campaign of ward; we may conclude, upon the whole, to 1908. Everything demanded by the group revise it upward." Whereupon they pro- of whom the late Senator Dolliver was a ceeded to do that very thing, with conse- worthy representative seems to all Republiquences that clear thinkers frankly predicted, and that Republican leaders and tariff beneficiaries are now beginning to understand in their relationships of cause and effect. Four Years History The Verdict cans now to have been most moderate and reasonable; yet President Taft and his administration read all of those Senators out of the Republican party because of their firm adherence to the party's pledges, and their An honest and sensible revision unyielding attitude against the folly of the of Tariff of the tariff in the extra session standpat majority. The country indicated of 1909 would have satisfied the its sentiment by promptly electing Democountry, and would have remained on the crats to fill two or three vacant Congress statute books for a considerable period of seats in Republican districts—one in Massayears. It would have been the last of the chusetts and another in New York. And general tariff bills made by rule of thumb. in the following autumn of 1910, it elected The progressive Republican Senators pro- an overwhelming majority of Democrats to posed to keep the protective tariff, but to the House of Representatives, and chose put real reform into t chedules, lowering Democratic Governors and legislatures in the rates, simplifying the obscure and com- many States, thus pointing to the early cer 'vi THE AMERICAN REVIEW OF REVIEWS Logan, Mrs. John A., 757. Loudon, Jonkeer John, 542. Ludwig III., King of Bavaria, 666. Lurton, Horace H., Justice, 13. McAdoo, William G., 142. McAneny, George, 398, 647. McCall, Edward E., 396, 397. McChord, Charles C., 422. McGovern, Francis E., Governor, 402. McKenna, Joseph, Justice, 13. McKenzie, Sir Muir, 410. McLoughlin, Maurice E., 35. McMahon, Patrick, 266. McMaster, John Bach, 680. McMaster, Marie, 35. McNab, John L., 147. Mitchel, John Purroy, 271, 647. Mitchell, S. Weir, 748. Montelius, Oscar, 625.. Morgan, J. P., 300. Morgenthau, Henry, 265. Mulhall, Martin M., 138. Müller, Lauro S., 23. Munson, Miss Arley, 752. Murphy, Charles F., 260, 648. Murphy, Edgar Gardner, 163. Newlands, Francis G., 388. Oddie, Tasker L., Governor, 402. O'Gorman, James A., 519. Olav, Prince, of Norway, 196. Olga, Grand Duchess, of Russia, 197. O'Shaughnessy, Nelson, 298. Oskar, Prince, of Germany, 160. Oxnard, Henry T., 138. Page, Thomas Nelson, 153. Palmer, A. Mitchell, 183. Palmer, Truman G., 138. Pankhurst, Mrs. Emmeline, 673. Park, Roswell, 656. Parker, Alton B., 532. Pence, William D., 208. Penfield, Frederic C., 153. Philadelphia Athletics Baseball Team, 550. Pietro, Sciarrino, 300. Pinchot, Gifford, 247. Pitney, Mahlon, Justice, 13. Poincaré, M. Raymond, President, 160, 319, 667. Schiff, Jacob H., 395. Schurman, Jacob Gould, 531. Selim El-Beshery, Sheik, Principal of Al Azhar University, 417. Sells, Cato, Judge, 149, 151. Senefelder, Alois, 61. Shchepkin, Michael Semenovitch, 739. Sheppard, Lucius E., 659. Sickles, Daniel E., General, 178, 180. Simon, Sir John, 665. Simmons, Furnifold M., 389. Slaton, Governor, 402. Slavejkov, Pentjo, 362. Smith, A. H., 659. Smith, Myron, 263. Smith, Thomas K., 266. Smoot, Reed, 135. Spain: Prince Alfonso, 194. Spain: Queen Victoria, 667. Stewart, S. V., Governor, 402. Stovall, Pleasant A., 152. Stringer, Isaac I., Rt. Rev., 356. Stuck, Hudsón, Archdeacon, 162. Taft, William H., at Princeton, 683. Tagore, Rabindranath, 243. Tallman, Clay, 150. Taylor, Caroline, 35. Thiers, Adolphe, 450. Tener, John K., Governor, 183. Turkey: Prince Saia Hélene, Grand Vizier, 159. Ugarte, Manuel, 357. Umberto, Prince of Piedmont, 196. Vanderlip, Frank A., 644. Van Devanter, W., Justice, 13. van Dyke, Henry, 152. Van Gogh, Vincent, 757. Van Horne, Sir William, 481. Verdi, Giuseppe, 623. Victoria, Empress, of Germany, 26. Victoria Luise, Princess, of Prussia, 25. Victoria, Queen, of Spain, 667. Von Der Goltz, General Baron, 323. Wagner, Robert F., 270. Waite, Edward F., Judge, 165. Wallace, Lieutenant-Governor of California, 402. Wallace, Alfred Russel, 685, 119. Walsh, David I., 403. Walsh, Frank P., 339. Welch, William H., 657. Wells, Captain, 155. Wells, H. G., 120. Wendt, E. F., 208. West, Andrew Fleming, 683. White, Edward D., Chief Justice, 13, 409. Whitman, Charles S., District Attorney, 397; conducting an inquiry, 651. Whitney, Harry Payne, 35. Wilhelm, August. Prince, of Germany, 160. Wilhelm, Friedrich, Crown Prince, 160, 321, 666. Willard, Joseph E., 152. Willeox, William R., 309. Williams, John Langbourne, 708, 709. Williams, R. Norris, 35. Wilson, Henry Lane, 280. Wilson, Jessie, 164, 551. Wilson, William B., Secretary of Labor, 550. Wilson, Woodrow, President, 392, 183, 141, 517, 550. Wingate, General, 34. Winthrop, John, 631. Wood, Leonard, General, 183, 550. Woodruff. Timothy L., 554. Yager, Arthur, 658. Young, Brigham, 756. Yuan Shih-Kai, President of China, 30, 347. Yuan Shih-Kai, Three sons of, 669. Zamacona, Senor, Envoy from Mexico, 412. Zeppelin, von, Count, 322. Price-fixing. Supreme Court decision on, 156. Primary, Direct, and the preferential method, 596. Princeton's new Graduate College, 682. Progressive Party, Colonel Roosevelt on, 610. Progress of civilization; reminiscences of John L. Progress of the World, 3, 131, 259, 387, 515, 643. Railroad labor disputes, New Federal Board of Railroads: Freight rate increase requested, 659. Railroads: Supreme Court decision in the Minnesota rate cases, 13. Railroads: The Union Pacific and Southern Pacific merger dissolution, 146. Railway finances, 12. Railways, Making a valuation of, 208. Record of Current Events, 36, 163, 297, 422, 551, 671. Roads: Good roads work in the Northwest, 184. of charges of drunkenness, 16-18; address at Newport on need of a strong navy, 154; tributes to Hanna and Quay, 225; recent activities, 530; departure for South America, 530; in South America, 663. Rousseau, Tolstoy, and the present age, 486. Royalty: Some coming rulers of the world, 192. Russia: Conditions in, 293. Duma, The Fourth, and its barren session, 292. Education in, 740. Influence of, in Asia Minor, 501. Press, Condition and regulation of, 29, 95. SALOON, Campaign against the, 79. San Francisco's water question, 657, 658. San Salvador, Conclusion of treaty with, 284. many States, 84. Progessive law-making in Shchepkin, Michael Semenovitch, famous Russian actor, 739. Singing, Disappearance of, among Americans, 733. Socialism, German and French, 618. Socialist Convention, German, at Jena, 415. South America, Railway building in, 615. Spain, Affairs in. 667. Spanish fleet at Santiago in 1898, 116. Sports: International contests in polo, tennis, and yachting. 33. State laws, Uniform, 401-402. State legislation, Progress in, 84, 277. Stone, N. I. The new tariff: A retrospect and a forecast, 433. Stone, N. I. The Underwood-Simmons Tariff, 559. Stowe, Lyman Beecher. Vice, crime, and the New York police, 73. Straus, Oscar S. A meeting-place for the world's peace makers, 440. Stuart, Henry C., for Governor of Virginia, 536. Sulzer, Governor, Attacks on, 18; his fight for direct primaries and good government, 155. Governor Sulzer and his assailants, 399; impeachment of, 259-271, 531, 532; elected to the New York State legislature, 650; his impeachment and its results, 651. Supreme Court decision on price-fixing, 156. Supreme Court decision in Minnesota railroad rate cases, 13. Syndicalism in Germany and France, 731. TAGORE, Rabindranath, India's great poet, 242. Tammany as a Democratic party menace, 393, 531. Tammany, The administration and, 648. Tariff: Action demanded rather than discussion, 3; four years of tariff history, 3; the Underwood bills of 1911, 4; radical action at last inevitable, 5; the crucial question of sugar, 6; the Underwood bill becomes a certainty, 131, 132; Senate caucus on bill, 132; Republican opposition, 134-136; some tentative changes, 136; tax on bananas, 136; income tax provision of Underwood bill, 137; beet sugar and the tariff, 233; passage of the tariff bill, 387-389; President Wilson's statement on completion of bill, 388; need of a tariff commission, 391; the new tariff,-a retrospect and a forecast (contributed article), 433; the bill signed by the President, 515-517; the Underwood-Simmons tariff, (contributed article), 559. Turkey: Shefket Pasha, Assassination of, 28. VANDERLIP, Frank A., views of, on Currency bill, 643, 728. Van Horne, Sir William, and the building of the Venezuela, Suppression of Castro revolt in, 285. Volturno, Burning of, in mid-Atlantic, 547. WADE, Herbert T. What the pageant does for local history, 328. Wallace, Alfred Russel, a brief sketch. 685. Welliver, Judson C. Making a valuation of our railways, 208. Wild life, The preservation of. in America, 670, 689. Williams, Charles Whiting. Cleveland's federated givers, 472. Willams, John Langbourne, An honored citizen of Virginia, 708. Williams, John Langbourne. The "Process of the Suns," 709. Wilson, President, endorsed by the elections, 646. Wilson, President, reads his currency message to Congress, 140. Wilson. President, Summer home of, at Cornish, Wireless telegraphy progress in Japan. 626. Women, International Congress of, at Paris, 32. EDITED BY ALBERT SHAW CONTENTS FOR JULY, 1913 Ten Thousand New York School Boys Tariff Action-Rather Than Discussion.... Business Doubts and Troubles. The Minnesota Rate Cases.. Persistent Rumors of War Plans. Are We to Have a Strong Navy?. Roosevelt and the Slanderers.. The Colonel's Suit for Libel. The New York Primary Campaign. 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