Stickney, Albert, prominent New York lawyer.
Steffens, Lincoln, American editor, writer and lecturer. Author of the “Shame of the Cities,” and other works and frequent contributor to magazines.
Sieyes, Emmanuel Joseph, French Abbé and statesman of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic era; member of the States General and the Convention; member of the Directorate of 1799 and Senator of France.
Schurz, Carl, distinguished German American; came to America in early youth and became an American writer, soldier, orator and statesman; was United States Minister to Spain; United States Senator from Missouri and Secretary of the Interior. Author of “Life of Henry Clay,” from which quotations are here made.
Seawell, Molly E., American journalist and novelist; author of “The Ladies’ Battle,” a work written in opposition to female suffrage.
Shaw, Albert, is editor of the American Review of Reviews, and author of several widely read works on Municipal Government, for which he was awarded the John Marshall prize by Johns Hopkins University in 1895. He has also written many books dealing with different phases of American life and government, and has lectured at many universities and colleges. He was appointed professor of Political Institutions and International Law at Cornell University in 1890, but declined. He is a trustee of the General Education Board and a member of the Bureau of Municipal Research. Is the author of “Political Problems,” quoted from in this volume.
Stimson, Henry L., American lawyer, was Secretary of War under President Taft for two years.
Sumner, Helen L., Assistant Chief of the Children’s Bureau of the Department of Labor at Washington. Was special investigator of woman suffrage in Colorado for the New York Collegiate Equal Suffrage League in 1916-1917. She is the author of many books dealing with industrial problems, and is a frequent contributor to economic and other publications. She published a book “Equal Suffrage,” from which a quotation is made in this volume.
Tocqueville, Alexis Henri Charles de, was a French statesman and political philosopher of the first half of the nineteenth century. Visited America in 1831 and wrote his monumental work “De la democratie in Amerique,” which is one of the world’s classics.
Tarbell, Ida M., is a prominent sociologist and publicist, and an associate editor of the American Magazine. She is author of “A Short Life of Napoleon Bonaparte,” a “Life of Lincoln,” a “History of the Standard Oil Company,” and “The Business of Being a Woman,” the latter quoted in this book.