Author: John R. Commons

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-09-18

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 9781527989818

Excerpt from A Documentary History of American Industrial Society, Vol. 8 The evils that afflict society have been criticized by the progressive Spirit of the age, and organized efforts have been made for their correction. Every prominent abuse of the human faculties, every prevailing vice, every oppressive and degrading rela tion that prevails, has caused the friends of humanity to array themselves in bands, for the purpose of resist ing, and if possible of eradicating, some one or more of the evils that disgrace our age and country, and these bands have been justly entitled Reformers. The Democratic party is an organization of reform ers, whose principles tend to perfecting our political system, by securing to each citizen the greatest amount of individual independence, but they have made but little progress, because their leaders, corrupted by place and power, have almost always found that their inter ests were hostile to the principles of their constituents. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.