Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1895-02-22
BOOKS RECEIVED.

THE PROBLEM OF CIVILIZATION SOLVED i
Mrs. Mary E. Leases new book, just published
by Laird & Lee, Chicago. The book is receiv
ing expensive notice by the press, and it will
doubtless have very large sale. The name o
the celebrated author would prove sufficient t
sell the book, regardless of the contents of TIL
volume Mrs. Leases idea is that the grea
cities are over-populated, and the problem o
civilization is to thin out the wretched poor
She says two-thirds of the earth's people liv
on one-eleventh of its land acres. The tota
population of the world is about billion and {
half. Belgium has 600 persons to the square
mile; England, 500; our own New England
states, 900. At the same time, in Africa ant
in Central and South America, there are I6,
900, 900 square miles of the most fertile, favored
land on the globe waiting for the hand of mai
to cultivate it. The climate is excellent il
most of these regions. In all of them it may
be healthful by cultivation and drainage Mrs
Lease wants to send the suffering surplus popu
1aton of civilization to these favored cli1ne
and fertile lands "where the poorest can be
happy, and, by their own reasonable effort, car
easily enjoy all needed luxuries." In short
''tropical colonization is Mrs. Leases solution
of the problem of civilization She would have
the profits derived from labor-savine machinery
shared equally by the capitalist, the workman
who runs the machines and the purchaser who
consumes the product Price of book, soc.
LABOR AS MONEY is a story with purpose
published by the Arena Publishing Company
of Boston. John O. Yeser is the author who
has the happy faculty of placing the burning
questions of the day which are up for solution
in form and manner which are easily compre
hended and very entertaining. Many persons
will read a story who could not be induced to
pore over long, dry columns of figures and
pages of prosy facts dug out of ancient, musy
records This book is an educator, and no per
son can read it without experiencing an arrest
of thought. Add it to your library and loan il
to your old-party neighbors. Price, soc.
COLD FACTS are contained in condensed
form in a little book written by Casca st. John
&C. H., author of "Why Are We Poor?" II
contains more essence of facts relating to finance
than any other book on earth. Your reform
library is not complete without it. Price, Ioc
Address The Nation Library, Minneapolis, Mimi
MONEY: IT'S NATURE, FUNCTION AND POWER,
by R. S. Thompson, is concise, comprepens-
i've, compact little work, in which the author
digs right down and gets at the root principles
of his subject. Reader, you should have it, by
all means. 1t is published by the New Era
Co., Springfield, o., and may be ordered thro
the AGITAToR Office. Only Ioc.
THE WHEELS OF THE TIGRESS, by K. M
Smith, Akron O., is resume of the national
banking system. The preface says: Gin the
following pages the writer has sought simply to
offer sketch of the origin and development OF
the national banking system, and brief review
of certain objections, which, in the light of ex-
perience with its practical workings, and with
the operation of former kindred systems, may
be urged against it." Price, I5c.
STILL THE WORLD GOES On, by Col. S. F..
Norton, of the Chicago Sentinel, is most en-
ioyable book, in which the sometimes gruff and
brusque writer exhibits goodness and tender
ness of heart that mere casual acquaintance
wouldn't know he possesses. 1t is not political
book. but it is a reform book in its truest sense,
and one cannot per1se its pages without being
the better therefor. Price, paper cover, 5oc.;
cloth and gold, SI.25.