TARIFF REFORM LEAGUE.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 74, 30 March 1910, Page 2

TARIFF REFORM LEAGUE.

REMARKABLE DETAILS OF A YEAR'S WORK. Whatever criticisms may bo- made as to tho general state of Unionist organisation, no charge of slackness can be made against the Tariff Pieform .League, to the efforts of which the long list of succesbes in the English counties is largely due (states a .London paper). The work done at the London headquarters before and during the election was enormous. In December and January no fewer than 14,000 parcels of leaflets aud posters were despatched by rail from the central office in Victoriastreet, while the despatch of letters, telegrams, and parcels during the same period amounted to over 24,000. The incoming mail bag between the middle of December and the middle of January varied from 600 to 12,200 letters a day, while 600 a day was the normal number for ,-i considerable period before 15th December. Taking the matter of tpeeches, figures show that last year, between Ist January and 31st October, 3252 meetings were held in all parts of the kingdom. In the month of November alone 1094 were held, during the first three weeks of December there were 1002 meetings, and from 29th December to 31st January, 1910, the number of meetings rose to the enormous figure of 2415. A total of 7763 meetings in a -little over a year, or about twenty a day. is thus arrived sit. Eight hundred and fiftyfive meetings were held in Lancashire from Ist January to 22nd December, and 431 dining the actual election campaign. Coming to details of leaflet, pampnlet, and poster distribution, we find that from Ist January to 3lbt October, 1903, there were issued 13,618,725 leaflets, i^5.650 pamphlets, and 56,055 posters; m November the figures were 7,135,150, 029,425, and 12,(50; in December, 15.635,440, 498,960, and 90,436; and in January of this year 14,785,790, 384,725, and 7b.6i.iJ. Ihis gives a total for rather less than thirteen months of &U,925,105 leaflets, 2,099,750 pamphlets, and 234,861 posters. In addition 161 "dumping" shops, motor omnibuses, and caravans supplied with dumped goods, giving the most effective object-lesson in the effects of the system of free imports, were fitted out by tho indefatigable authorities of the league. "Monthly Notes on Tariff Heforin ' were published to the extent of 285,000 copies, while 68,000 copies of "Notes for Speakers" were issued. Six thousand conies of the "Monthly Notes" were posted monthly, and over 10UU | copies of "Notes for Soeakere" were posted weekly.