I 25 Economics for the People... 75 $4 55 STERNE, SIMON. Constitutional History of the United States.. BOWKER, R: R. The 5 vols., $4.0.. INTERMEDIATE OR CITIZENS SERIES. COSSA, L. Taxation, annotated by Horace White..... JEVONS, W: S. WALKER, F. A. Money and the Mechanism of Exchange Political Economy, briefer course.. WELLS, D: A. Recent Economic Changes.... The 5 vols., $7.50. ADVANCED OR STUDents' seRIES. $8.20 BRYCE, JAMES. American Commonwealth. $6 00 Constitutional History of the United States, as seen in the development of Law. Lectures by Hon. T: M. COOLEY and others... 2 00 GRAHAM, W: Socialism, New and Old..... I 75 MILL, J: S. Political Economy, abridged and annotated by J. L. Laugh lin........ WALKER, F. A. Money.. 3 50 4.00 $17 25 The 5 vols., $15.50. These series are for sale by G: P. Putnam's SONS, 27 West 23d Street, New York, agents for the Society; they will.be sent to any address in the United States on receipt of price, and may be ordered through booksellers generally. CIVIL-SERVICE EXAMINATIONS ANSWERS OF BEING QUESTION PAPERS, WITH ACTUAL EDITED, WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY R. R. BOWKER NEW YORK THE SOCIETY FOR POLITICAL EDUCATION 31 PARK ROW (ORGANIZED 1880.) OBJECTS. The SOCIETY was organized by citizens who believe that the suc cess of our government depends on the active political influence of educated intelligence, and that parties are means, not ends. It is entirely non-partisan in its organization and is not to be used for any other purpose than the awakening of an intelligent interest in government methods and purposes, tending to restrain the abuse of parties and to promote party morality. Among its organizers are numbered Democrats, Republicans, and Independents, who differ among themselves as to which party is best fitted to conduct the government; but who are in the main agreed as to the following propositions: The right of each citizen to his free voice and vote must be upheld. Office-holders must not control the suffrage. The office should seek the man, and not the man the office Public service, in business positions, should depend solely on fitness and good behavior. The crimes of bribery and corruption must be relentlessly punished. Local issues should be independent of national parties. Coins made unlimited legal tender must possess their face value as metal in the markets of the world. Sound currency must have a metal basis, and all paper-money must be convertible on demand. Labor has a right to the highest wages it can earn, uuhindered by public or private tyranny. Trade has a right to the freest scope, unfettered by taxes, except for government expenses. Corporations must be restricted from abuse of privilege. Neither the public money nor the people's land must be used to subsidize private enterprise. A public opinion, wholesome and active, unhampered by machine control, is the true safeguard of popular institutions. Persons who become members of the Society are not, however, required to endorse the above. METHODS.—The Society proposes to carry out its objects by submitting from time to time to its members lists of books which it regards as desirable reading on current political and economic questions; by selecting annual courses of reading for its members; by supplying the books so selected at the smallest possible advance beyond actual cost; by furnishing and circulating at a low price, and in cheap form, sound economic and political literature in maintenance and illustration of the principles above announced as constituting the basis of its organization; and by assisting in the formation of reading and corresponding circles and clubs for discussing social, political, and economic questions. ORGANIZATION.-The Society is managed by a Committee, selected from year to year. The correspondence of the Society is divided among five Secretaries, one each for the East, the Northwest, the Southeast, the Southwest, and the Pacific Slope. It is suggested that branch organizations be formed wherever it is possible (and especially in colleges) to carry out the intentions of the Society. Any person who will form a Club of ten persons, each of whom shall be an active member of this Society, will be entitled to a set of the tracts issued for the current year. |