The Evening Bulletin

There is evidently, as the Philadelphia Record says, a combined effort on the part of the managers of many of the largely over-protected industries, by threats of stoppages, to bring to bear upon Congress a demand on the part of the workingman for the defeat of the Wilson bill. This means of attack is made more easy and plausible by reason of the conditions of universal business depression in Europe and America which have been accentuated in this country by the recent financial crisis. There is a lull and an indecision in trade and traffic which would possibly justify stoppage in some industries, without reference to the prospect of tariff changes. Workingmen who do not read or who have given no thought to the operation of the tariffs may be by such means brought into an attitude of opposition to proposed revision; but we doubt if any serious impression will be made upon the mass.