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THE CITIZEN’S LIBRARY OF ECONOMICS, POLITICS, AND SOCIOLOGY
THE CITIZEN’S LIBRARY OF ECONOMICS, POLITICS, AND SOCIOLOGY
12mo. Half Leather $1.25 net, each MONOPOLIES AND TRUSTS. By Richard T. Ely, Ph.D. , LL.D. THE ECONOMICS OF DISTRIBUTION. By John A. Hobson . WORLD POLITICS. By Paul S. Reinsch, Ph.D. , LL.B. ECONOMIC CRISES. By Edward D. Jones, Ph.D. OUTLINES OF ECONOMICS. By Richard T. Ely . GOVERNMENT IN SWITZERLAND. By John Martin Vincent, Ph.D. ESSAYS ON THE MONETARY HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. By Charles J. Bullock, Ph.D. SOCIAL CONTROL. By Edward A. Ross, Ph.D. HISTORY OF POLITICAL PARTIES I
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PREFATORY NOTE
PREFATORY NOTE
These studies in the gradual development of the moral substitutes for war have been made in the industrial quarter of a cosmopolitan city where the morality exhibits marked social and international aspects. Parts of two chapters have been published before in the form of addresses, and two others as articles in the North American Review and in the American Journal of Sociology . All of them however are held together by a conviction that has been maturing through many years. Hull-House, Chicago...
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NEWER IDEALS OF PEACE
NEWER IDEALS OF PEACE
The following pages present the claims of the newer, more aggressive ideals of peace, as over against the older dovelike ideal. These newer ideals are active and dynamic, and it is believed that if their forces were made really operative upon society, they would, in the end, quite as a natural process, do away with war. The older ideals have required fostering and recruiting, and have been held and promulgated on the basis of a creed. Their propaganda has been carried forward during the last cen
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CHAPTER III FAILURE TO UTILIZE IMMIGRANTS IN CITY GOVERNMENT
CHAPTER III FAILURE TO UTILIZE IMMIGRANTS IN CITY GOVERNMENT
We do much loose talking in regard to American immigration; we use the phrase, “the scum of Europe,” and other unwarranted words without realizing that the unsuccessful man, the undeveloped peasant, may be much more valuable to us here than the more highly developed, but also more highly specialized, town dweller, who may much less readily acquire the characteristics which the new environment demands. If successful struggle ends in the survival of the few, in blatant and tangible success for the
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