The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-11-11
SOCIETY FOR POLITICAL EDUCA-
TON.

There has recently been established a
new association under the name of So
ciety for Political Education, non-parti-
san in its character and, in the best sense,
national in its scope The Society is to
be managed by an Executive Committe
of twenty-five members selected from
different sections of the United States
many of them being experts in different
departments of the study of social and
political science. A singular feature of
its organization is that it has no presi-
dent and thus avoids the risk of hav-
ing its aims confounded with the idisyn-
cracies of any individual chosen for its
head. The correspondence of the Soci-
ETY. is to be divided among five Secreta-
ries, one each for the East, including the
Middle States, the Northwest, the South
east, the Southwest, and the Pacific
slope. Its Executive Committee, which
is not yet filed up, now comprises Prof.
w. G. Sumner, of Yale College, New
Haven; Hon. David A. Wells, of Nor
wich, Connecticut Charles Francis Ad-
ans, Jr., of Boston, Mass George S.
Coe, Horace White, Geo. Haven Put
nam, r. r. Bowker, E. NJ. Shepard and
R. L, Dugdale, of New York city Frank
McVeaugh and M. L, Scudder, Jr, of
Chicago ILL.,; Gen. Bradley r, Johnson;
of Richmond, Va. Hon. John Fl. Ames,
of Lincoln, Nebraska; A. Sydney Biddle,
of Philadelphia, Pa. A. Mitchell, of
New Orleans, La. !; George Mason of Gal
weston, Texas, and Peter Hamilton of
Mobile, Ala. ......
The society has selected as a course of
reading for the first year, Nordhoffs
"Politics for Young Americans" Prof.
Perry's Introduction to Political Econ
omy," Johnsons History Of American
Politics, " and McAdam's Alphabet in
Finance" These volumes will be issued
in cheap edition, costing only $500,
specially published for the Society as a
Library Of Political Education, boxed in
sets with uniform binding, and bearing
the name of the Society on the cover.
G. P Putnam's Sons, of New York, and
Johnson, McClurg & Co., of Chicago, will
be the publishing agents. Next year an
other set of books will be selected, and
it is planned to extend the Library grad
ually according to the growth of the So
ciety until attention shall have been
given to the whole range ofsubjects com
priscd under Social Science. In addition
to the Library, a series of tracts are to be
published on economic and and political
subjects, including among the earlier
ones "What is a Bank?" by Edward
Atkinson, of Boston and Turgot's cele-
brated essay "0n the Creation and Dis
tribution of Wealth" The latter work,
by the great finance minister of Louis
XVI, although first published in 1776,
and acknowledged to be the most valua-
BILE contribution ever made to economic
literature, has never been published in
the United States, and so far as known,
only once translated and published in
the English language, and then most
imperfectly, in pamphlet, which ap-
peared in London at the commencement
of the present century.
The valuable pamphlets of the Honest
Money League Of the Northwest, which
did such strong service for the country
during its activity, will be continued, in
Guiding revision of Mr. Thos M.
Nichols effective pamphlet on " Honest
Money" 1t is proposed to also issue lists
recommending desirable courses of
reading on economic and political sub
jects. Two such are now ready; list
of books on political economy and polit-
ical science, recommended by Prof Sum-
ner, of Y ale, and another on the Consti-