The question of high or low tariff, long a battleground between Republicans and Democrats, has in recent years lost some of its pristine vigor. The Republicans have ignored the high tariff except for perfunctory eulogies. The Democrats have used it chiefly as a handy missile for occasional flings at their opponents.
But agrarian dissatisfaction has recently forced it to the front, reopening the issue with something of the former bitterness. The high tariff was belabored last week at a tariff conference called by the Farmers' National Council in Washington, at a joint meeting...
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