1885—Electric street railways in operation at Richmond, Virginia, and Baltimore.

[8] For the keenest analysis of this social transformation, see Veblen, Theory of the Leisure Class and Theory of Business Enterprise.

[9] See below, Chaps. VI and VII.

[10] See below, p. 234.

[11] Youngman, The Economic Causes of Great Fortunes, p. 75.

[12] By an act passed in August, 1912, Congress provided a territorial legislature for Alaska, which had been governed up to that time by a governor appointed by the President and Senate, under acts of Congress.


CHAPTER III

THE REVOLUTION IN POLITICS AND LAW