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BOARD OF LIBRARY COMMISSIONERS.
N. Y., Putnam's Sons, 1892 $1.25
These essays—namely: What makes the rate of wages, What is a bank, The railway. The farmer and the public, are all treated in a broad and liberal manner.
N. Y., Putnam's Sons, 1887 75c
The discussion confirms the impression that it is impossible to draw a line between labor and capital, that capital is dead matter until used by labor of all kinds.
N. Y., Appleton, 1897 75c
A book especially useful to the rising- generation in stimulating a desire to become better informed of the affairs of their country and a love and reverence for its institutions.
Baker, C. W.Monopolies and the people. (Questions of the day.)
N. Y., Putnam's Sons, 1890 $1.25
Author discusses trusts, competitions and the evils of monopolies and and suggests remedies and practical plans for their control.
Il.Bost, Lee & Shepard, 1892 $1.50
The writer points out the relation of wages to morals, the temptations of working people, evils of tenement-house life and the worship of the god Gold of modern society.
N. Y., Appleton, 1897 $1.25
The book is so full of ideas, so replete with suggestive aspects, so rich in quotable parts, as to form an arsenal of argument for apostles of the new democracy.—Baxter.
Il.N. Y., Putnam's Sons, 1893 $1.50
A study of the abnormal increase of criminals, and the public burden of pauperism in the United States, the causes and remedies.
N. Y., Putnam's Sons, 1888 $1.75
The author has kept in view the principles rather than the statistics and has made an analysis of the salient political and industrial evils of the day.