In no nation on the planet is the
need of the investigation of political theory and political economy more
prominent than in the United States, wherein each native is, legitimately or in
a roundabout way - through the vehicle of his vote - an administrator; but
then, in no incredible nation, maybe, has the investigation of governmental
issues as a science been so completely disregarded. Our experience as a people
during the most recent decade has exhibited how significant it is to lay before
the incredible assemblage of perusers dependable attempts to which they may
allude, when event requires, for the standards by which all extraordinary
national inquiries are illuminated. The general population of the United States
for as long as ten years, to go no more distant back in their history, have
been, in a manner of speaking, one extraordinary discussing club, examining
such inquiries as the resumption of specie installments, constriction of the
cash, inflation of the money, cash, paper cash, the nature and fix of business
miseries, the demonetization of silver, banks, investment funds banks,
bi-metallism, the relations of capital and work, the privilege of work,
communism, socialism, strikes, railroad approach, common administration, common
administration change, and so on., and so on. The thinking segment about the
general population have anxiously eaten up whatever they could discover on
these points.
The Cyclopaedia of Political Science,
Political Economy, and the Political History of the United States by the Best
American and European Writers was a reference book altered by John Joseph
Lalor, first distributed in New York City in 1881 by Maynard, Merrill and Co..
Its substance are in the open space.
