Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1891 — THE HAND-TO-HAND CLUB. [ARTICLE]

THE HAND-TO-HAND CLUB.

It Will Issue s Half Million Copies ol ‘•Protection or Free Trade.” The Hand-to-Hand Club is the name of a unique organization, the President of which is Mr. Logan Carlisle, son of Senator Carlisle, of Kentucky, and the Secretary Mr. W. T. Atkinson', 42 University place, New York. The object of this club is to get out a cheap edition of “Protection or Free Trade. ” It is proposed to issue an edition of 500,000 CQpies, the first 100,000 of which being already in press. It is proposed to sell the book to advance subscribers at the remarkably low price of 10 cents per copy. As the work covers more than 200 pages, it will be seen that it is a remarkable triumph of the book-maker’s art to produce it at this extremely low price. No work is better calculated to teach sound ideas than “Protection or Free Trade.” It is written in a simple style, its arguments are such as the average reading public will readily 'grasp, and its refutation of the protectionist heresy is so complete as to carry conyiction to to all opeq minds. Now is the time to give the widest possible circulation to Henry GeoFge’s book. As Mr. Logan Carlislo-says: “It is certainly the duty of every Democrat who is in accord with his Darty to assist

in this educational work of the Hand-to-hand Club, since it is in a line with what must be done by Democrats to achieve success in 1892. The idea that the people can be educated in ninety days has been demonstrated to be an erroneous one. As a matter of economy, also, the work must be done now. One-half the money that is spent foolishly and feverishly in the heat of a campaign can now be spent for 1891 to better and more lasting effect in educating the people in sound economic principles.” The favor with which the plan of the Hand-to-Hand dub has been received may be seen from the fact that the Democrats and tariff reformers of Michigan have pledged themselves to subscribe for and distribute at least 50,000 copies of “Protection or Free Trade?” Mr. A. B. Farquhar, a great manufacturer of agricultural implements at York, Pa., has subscribed for 2,500 for distribution in'his State, and one gentleman in Boston has taken 5,000 copies. Earnest tariff reformers throughout the country canno(b do a better service to the cause of tariff reduction and abolition than to get up clubs of subscribers for “Protection or Free Trade?” The book will be sent to advance subscribers at ten cents a copy, postage paid. Let everybody lend a hand.