People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1894 — Our Country’s Need. [ARTICLE]

Our Country’s Need.

Prof. Frank Parsons, the author of “Our Country’s Need, or the Development of a Scientific Industrialism.” is well known to students of law and lawyers in the East as a very successful counsel lor-at-law and lecturer on law and jurisprudence in the Boston university. But he is one of the fine spirits ,of our time who burn with a zeal for the cause of humanity,and this book will introduce to Western readers not a crabbed,dried-up pragiinatical maker of legal brief, but a keen, forceful thinker, a poet, and a man who dares to unmask the respectable mummeries of our commercial life. In this | work he deals with effective logic and knowledge of every phase of the subject, with the two momentous defects of the reigning political economy. One is, it busies itself with formulating the laws of industry as they are, instead of seeking to discover, as a science and philcsphy should, the laws of what they ought to be in conformity with the physical and unalter-

able laws of nature. The second defect pf the old and reigning political economy is, it is based on the total misconception of values and of the purposes of industrial institutions. The author has attempted in this -work to outline the essential and fundamental principles of a new political economy. It contains in a handy compass a mass of useful informatien for all readers who are studying our social problems —as all men are to-day as never before in all our social history. “Our Country’s Need” is published by the Arena Publishing Company, of Boston, but -we can supply it to our readers direct for study anJ campaign work at 25 cents a copy.