Excerpt from Illiteracy and Its Social, Political and Industrial Effects: An Address Delivered by Invitation Before the Union League Club of New York City Before passing from this class of considerations you will pardon me for reminding you that many of our intelligent people, disgusted as they say by the ignorance and corruption they meet, show a disposition not to participate in political action; and that generally the more ignorant can be rallied to do what their leaders desire. In the light of this general fact I beg you to turn to the Tribune Almanac for 1882 and, after adding up the columns of votes cast, draw out of its total the number in each State whose votes were not cast or were not counted in the last election you will find the startling result that these votes not cast or not counted make a grand total in all the States of or more than three-fourths of the number who voted on either side, and as a rule in each State sufficient or two or three times enough to have reversed the election. 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.