Reform Club Work

Chairman E. Ellery Anderson, of the Reform club, has just issued an appeal for subscription which contains the f ollowing statement of one of the objects of the club during the campaign : It is our earnest desire to secure the election of Grover Cleveland as president of the United States. We wish to satisfy the great masses of voters that a protective tariff does not tend to increase the wages of the workman, but on the contrary tends to decrease thein. We wish to satisfy them that a protective tariff does increase the prices of the necessaries of life, and that the truth in regard to this matter cannot be reached by coinparing the prices of today with prices in years gone by, but that the true test is obtained by comparing the prices of articles in this country with the prices at the same period of the same or similar articles in other markets. We wish to satisfy the great masses of the voters that the chief end and object of the protective system is to develop in this land the most baneful of all industries, the "manufacture of the millionaire." We wish to satisfy these masses that wealth which is not the reward of labor, but which is the unnatural product of laws passed for the benefit of favored classes, is of necessity drawn out of the substance and savings of the poor, and it is for that reason a cruel and unjust burden to the community.