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 PROTECTIONISM THE -ISM WHICH TEACHES THAT WASTE MAKES WEALTH [1885] PREFACE During the last fifteen years we have had two great questions to discuss: the restoration of the currency and civil-service reform. Neither of these questions has yet reached a satisfactory solution, but both are on the way toward such a result. The next great effort to strip off the evils entailed on us by the Civil War will consist in the repeal of those taxes which one man was enabled to levy on another, under cover of the taxes which the government had to lay to carry on the war. I have taken my share in the discussion of the first two questions, and I expect to take my share in the discussion of the third.