There is every reason to believe that no treaty will be figned as the result of this conference and that it {will be indefinitely: postponed when \the radicals and sentimentalists at home can be shown beyond all chance {of cavil that no other course was Possible; but it is certain that, in ithe mind of the unhappy delegates who would all like to be off about more reasonable and productive busi-resi in a more hopeful atmosphere, the end of the conference is as' yet nowhere in sight.
It is possible that within a reasonable time the tariff increases provided for at the Washington Conference will be quietly put into effect for the lack of something better to but, until the final climax comes, whatever its nature, and the delega, tions are actually withdrawn, the conference will continue to present ie ture of sheer futility, the like of which ould be impossible in any country bat Ching. 1
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