Morning journal and courier., 1888-06-02
A rARnFE. REFoRm CLUB.

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An Organisation EMected Lass EVEN
ing-The Presidents Message IL the
Embarrassment Speeches MADE.
About two hundred citizens attended at
Loomis' Temple last evening the meeting to
form reform club to support the tariff re-
form views of the present administration.
Mr.. Henry B. Sargent was elected Temporal
rY chairman and on motion Of Attorney Tai
colt Il. Russell q committee on permanent
organization was appointed. The chair ap.
pointed as such committee Simeon E. Bald
win, TaIcott II. Russell and James T. Moran.
While the committee was out Mr.. Sargent
said This is not to be free trade club, but
club for tariff reduction. The scheme is to
form club which will favor tariff reduc-
ton, something on the line of the Mills bill.
The committee on permanent organization
reported in favor of a permanent organiza-
ton under the following constitution:
CONSTITUTION OF THE REFORM CLUB.
Article 1. This association is formed un-
der the name of the Reform club for the pur-
pose of furthering the tariff reform policy OF
the administration.
Art. g. The officers shall be president,
two vice presidents, secretary and treas
urer and an executive committee consisting
of twenty-five, who shall designate four Of
their number to constitute, together with the
president, secretary and treasurer, "a managing
committee.
Art 8. Ali electors of the State asserting
to the constitution may become members of
this club.
Art. 4. The executive committee may
make such rules as they think proper for the
management of the club and shall have the
general direction of its affairs, and may dele
gate such persons as they think best to the
managing committee and may fill vacancies
in their own number.
The constitution was adopted unanimously,
and the following officers as reported by the
committee were elected
President, Joel A. Sperry; vice presidents,
e. E. Bradley, G. S. Morehouse; secretary,
James s. Cowles; treasurer, Henry w. Far
nam; executive committee, 8. E. Baldwin, G.
S. Morehouse, II. W. Farnam, James Rey-
nolds, Norris G. Osborn, Henry B. Sargent,
Frank Fl. Sperry, Thomas Hooker, William
Schollhorn, E. P Arvine, Morris F. Tyler,
Burton Mansfield, Joseph Porter, Seligman
Zunder, William A. Wright, DIR. Charles A.
Linsdley, George L. Fox, John Ruff, w. Fl.
Carnalt, Isaac Wolfe.
Mr.. Sperry on taking the chair returned
thanks for the honor and said he avowed his
movement. Protection meant taxation. Tax
alton is not blessing to any people. In low
tariff England the people were better paid
and clothed than in protection countries.
Our commerce suffers. Why? Because it
costs more to build ships here than in Eng
land. The American wool industry has not
improved under the tariff. Our carpet max
ing interests languish for want of cheap wool
Remove the tariff from wool and our sheep
raisers would make more money.
Mr.. James L. Cowles of Pennington, be-
ing called upon, said: I look upon the Presi-
dents message as the emancipation proc-
lamation of the white workingmen of this
country. I look upon the present tariff not
as the protector of American industry, but as
the destroyer of American industry. Ny
friends at Mt. Carmel will tell you that they
are paying $4,000 year in taxes to bring in
material to provide work for American labor
Go up to Plantsville and ask the bolt makers
there and they will tell you that they pay
81, 900 to $25, 900 in taxes which are burden
ing their industry. If this state of things
continues many manufacturers will be driven
from Connecticut. Mr.. Cowles pitched right
in against protection and in closing said this
was vital question and must now be met.
Americans could defy pauper labor. Break
down this taxation and you upbnild Connec-
ticut's industries and add greatly to her
wealth and population.
Attorney S. E. Baldwin was the next
speaker and said: We have industries here
that for the present deserve protection and
the question now is not between protection
and free trade, but between unjust protection
and just protection, and this is the keynote
of the statesmanlike message of the President
which we are here to endorse. I am glad
that we are to have this sort of an issue in
politics.
Town Agent Reynolds said: We are to
fight campaign on a principle that is
principle of national being. He warmly en-
dorsed CleVeland's message.
Attorney Talcots 81. Russell added o few
remarks in commendation of the clubs plat
form and Cleveland's message, and charac-
terized Senator Platt's speech in the Senate
as TRADE against free trade and an effort to
stigmatize the movement he opposed. The
things in the Mills bill we do not produce,
but we use them. How, then. can it work
injurya We need not fear English labor
competition either. 1t is the Englishman
who needs protection in America.
Among those at the meeting were noticed:
Alderman Samuel Barnes, DR.. Linquist,
Attorney Charles a. Fowler, James T. Nor
an, Attorney Harry w. Asher, Charles L.
Ullman, ex-Msyor Henry g. Lewis, Deputy
Sheriff William B. Catlin, James Gallagher,
jr., E. P. Arvine, R. T. Pennell, G. B. Bow
ers, Burton Mansfield, Lawyer Pardee, SCI
lectman White, 8. Shoninger, F. S. Andrew,
George T. Newhall and s. w. Langley.