8 NOVEMBER 1913, Page 28

A Decade of Tariff Fooling : a Retrospect by the Cobden Club.

(Cobden Club, Broadway Court, Westminster. 2d.)—It is now ten years since Mr. Chamberlain opened his Tariff Reform campaign, and the Cobden Club celebrates the occasion by issuing a pamphlet in which the whole history of the movement is reviewed. The greater part of the booklet, which is in the main the work of Lord Evemley, is concerned with showing how the original gloomy predictions of Tariff Reformers as to the decadence and ruin of our industries have been falsified by the trade figures of the last ten years. Although in some places the pamphlet shows strong signs of a party bias, with the principles underlying it., as we need not remind our readers, we are in complete agreement.