EVERY business question, in this country,
comes back, sooner or later, to the question of the tariff. You cannot escape from it, no
matter in which direction you go. The tariff is situated in relation to other
questions like Boston Common in the old arrangement of that interesting city. I remember
seeing once, in Life, a picture of a man standing at the door of one of the railway
stations in Boston and inquiring of a Bostonian the way to the Common. "Take any of
these streets," was the reply, "in either direction." Now, as the Common
was related to the winding streets of Boston, so the tariff question is related to the
economic questions of our day. Take any direction and you will sooner or later get to the
Common. And, in discussing the tariff you may start at the centre and go in any direction
you please.
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