Contents
Lectures. I. Socialism and universal suffrage. 2. Socialism a political blunder. 3. Self-help, not state-help, the hope of the poor. 4. Co-operation as a help for the poor. 5. Co-operative savings banks in Germany. 6. Death-traps and fever-dens in city slums. 7. High schools and a united citizenship. 8. Tramps, Sunday laws, and the poor. 9. Alcohol and the human brain. 10. Socialism, temperance, and woman's vote. Preludes. I. Infidel attack on the postal laws. 2. Lax honor in commercial life. 3. Fragmentary college culture. 4. The Chinese in America. 5. Possible and actual Alaska. 6. Party greed in the civil service. 7. The Bible in schools. 8. Congress and the Chinese question. 9. Science in the international Church lessons. 10. Jesuit text-books for Americans.