The Forgotten Man and Other Essays

by William Graham Sumner

THE

FORGOTTEN MAN

AND

OTHER ESSAYS

BY

WILLIAM GRAHAM SUMNER

EDITED BY

ALBERT GALLOWAY KELLER

NEW HAVEN

YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS

LONDON: HUMPHREY MILFORD

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

MDCCCCXVIII

Copyright, 1919,

By Yale University Press

CONTENTS
PAGE
Preface	3
Protectionism, the –Ism which Teaches that Waste Makes Wealth (1885)	9
Tariff Reform (1888)	115
What is Free Trade? (1886)	123
Protectionism Twenty Years After (1906)	131
Prosperity Strangled by Gold (1896)	141
Cause and Cure of Hard Times (1896)	149
The Free-Coinage Scheme is Impracticable at every Point (1896)	157
The Delusion of the Debtors (1896)	165
The Crime of 1873 (1896)	173
A Concurrent Circulation of Gold and Silver (1878)	183
The Influence of Commercial Crises on Opinions about Economic Doctrines (1879)	213
The Philosophy of Strikes (1883)	239
Strikes and the Industrial Organization (1887)	249
Trusts and Trades-unions (1888)	257
An Old "Trust" (1889)	265
Shall Americans Own Ships? (1881)	273
Politics in America, 1776–1876 (1876)	285
The Administration of Andrew Jackson (1880)	337
The Commercial Crisis of 1837 (1877 or 1878)	371
The Science of Sociology (1882)	401
Integrity in Education	409
Discipline	423
The Coöperative Commonwealth	441
The Forgotten Man (1883)	465
Bibliography	499
Index	521