CONDITIONS OF MEMBERSHIP. Free to all who approve the principles and will join in the work of the Alliance. The payment of one dollar per annum will entitle the subscriber to one copy of each of the publications of the Alliance Contributions of ten dollars per annum are solicited from those who are willing to aid in promoting the objects of the Alliance. All contributions or subscriptions are to be paid to A. D. F. RANDOLPH, Treasurer, and publisher of "THE NEW CENTURY," 770 Broadway, who will give a receipt for the amount. OFFICERS OF THE ALLIANCE. FRED'K H. HARRISON, President, No. 12 Coenties Slip. A. D. F. RANDOLPH, Treasurer, No. 770 Broadway. ABRAHAM L. EARLE, Secretary. [Mr. Earle, the Secretary, may be addressed at the Comptroller's Office, New York.] Correspondence is earnestly solicited from every one who feels interested in this method of reform. No man is so obscure that he cannot be of some service. A few honest, determined men in each district, whose patriotism is above party relations, can easily secure co-workers, who, with quiet earnestness can educate and influence their neighbors, so as to become a power sufficient to command respect and success. Pamphlets published by the Alliance will be furnished on application to Abraham L. Earle, Secretary, who may be addressed at the Comptroller's Office, New York. A MONTHLY JOURNAL FOR PROMOTING INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL FREEDOM AND POLITICO-ECONOMIC REFORM. There is nothing to be deprecated and denounced more than the ignorance, caprice and selfishness manifested in the changes or threatened changes in international trade, which are brought up in Congress at every session, and are so agitated as to derange the most prudent calculations of business men, inevitably injuring the producing interests of the whole country. Recognizing the necessity for diffusing information and inculcating simple economic truths, in order that intelligent and honest legislation may be required from those who are chosen to represent the interests of the people, the INTERNATIONAL FREE TRADE ALLIANCE, in addition to its other efforts to secure such results, has arranged with PROFESSOR W. G. SUMNER, OF YALE COLLEGE, to deliver a course of Lectures on Tue TARIFF CONTROVERSY AS DEVELOPED IN THE UNITED STATES. These Lectures will be delivered at the monthly meetings of the Alliance, and published in the current numbers of THE NEW CENTURY; they will be followed by other papers eminently instructive and important. The Journal of the Alliance is furnished at the nominal price of One Dollar per annum, in order that it may be within reach of all who wish to be informed regarding the progress of the work in which we are engaged. As the price is not sufficient to cover the cost of publishing and mailing, it is very desirable that those who recognize its importance, and are able to assist, will contribute a larger sum to sustain the effort. There is no subject of legislation which requires honesty, intelligence and unselfishness more than the enactment laws relating to business matters. This is especially neces sary where the revenues of a country are derived almost entirely from a tax upon the trade of one country with other countries-a tax upon methods of earning a livelihood. Subscriptions for the Journal and contributions to aid the cause may be sent to or to FRED. H. HARRISON, President, A. D. F. RANDOLPHI, Treasurer, No. 12 Coenties Slip, or to ABRAHAM L. FARLE, Secretary, Comptroller's Office, New York. 900 Broadway, 59 WALL STREET, NEW YORK. 211 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, 66 State Street, Boston. Issue Commercial Credits, make Cable Transfers of money between this Country and England, and Draw Bills of Exchange on Great Britain and Ireland. They also issue against cash deposited or satisfactory guarantee of repayment, Circular Credits for Travelers, in DOLLARS, for use in the United States and adjacent countries, and in POUNDS STERLING for use in any part of, the world. WILLIAM S. WHITLOCK & CO., SHIP CHANDLERS AND PATENT ROPE MAKERS, Cordage, Manilla Rope, Wire Rope, Bolt Rope, Bale Rope, Tow Line, McKesson & Robbins, The New Century. THE MEANS OF REFORM. It is interesting and gratifying to observe the extent to which the numerous political conventions throughout the country have been, professedly at least, animated by the watchword, Reform. Though we have but little confidence in the plans for reformation which they adopt or advocate, and though we recognize the tendency prevalent among them to be contented with simply uttering the cry, we value them so far as their utterances are the expressions of a popular demand for improvement in the government. We are sorry to see that the Republican National Convention, in its desire at once to conciliate the Pennsylvania element of its power, and to evade, as far as possible, a difficult issue, has fallen into the two common pastime of juggling words to mean whatever each man wishes; of course its declaration of principles must be counted in favor of a protective tariff, though the ablest and purest men of its own body oppose it utterly. But even the Fifth avenue conference itself, admirable as was its spirit, contented itself with too little, and failed to strike at the root of the existing Federal evil. It resembled all the other political conferences in that it virtually stopped at the consideration of candidates for an exccutive office. It acted upon the supposition that, to secure reform, it was only necessary to secure an honest and capable President. This is a cardinal mistake. To our mind, the most penetrating utterance at the conference was the words of Prof. Sumner. He forcibly indicated the defect in its proceedings when he said-"Gentlemen, you are dealing with the symptoms and not the causes of the disease." This is the point. Our maladministration is the result of a vice in the governmental scheme; and the disease of corruption can be cured only when the people, instead of occupying themselves solely with the symptons, and ignoring the causes, give their direct attention to the destruction of those causes. Let us not be understood as underrating the value of an honest administration. Instead of disparaging the effert to procure it, we fully admit the necessity of having it before any very good results can be ob |