Word: reformers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...duty. of each citizen in the struggle to make public opinion effective. The writer comes to the conclusion that politics as a career must be a failure of all but the wealthy; that while parties must exist, it is almost impossible to carry effective measures of reform into operation by means of party machinery. We agree with Mr. Story in many points, but we wish that he had put more stress upon the necessity of action within parties by private citizens. We believe that measures of final and permanent influence can best be handled through parties and not by means...
...first speaker was Mr. Shattuck, L. S., of the affirmative. He presented the issue of this campaign as tariff reform or the increase of the surplus. The Mills bill reduces the price of the necessities of life by abolishing the duties on raw materials. The Allison bill, on the other hand, merely lowers the internal revenue. The only reduction of duties it makes is that on sugar a sectional measure...
...second speaker for the affirmative was Mr. F. B. Williams, L. S. He said that the old issue of the Republican party was dead. The present issue is tariff reform. The Mills bill is not free trade, for it retains an average duty of over 40 per cent. The present duty on lumber ought to be abolished, for it only protects Canadian workmen who are cutting off our forests in Maine...
...That the Association believes in the re-election of President Cleveland as at present the best means of advancing the reform...
...Association will furnish Tariff Reform documents free to all its members for distribution; and, later on, will hold a public meeting to advocate its principles...