SOCIAL FORCES IN AMERICAN HISTORY TO MY WIFE MAY WOOD SIMONS WHOSE CONTINUOUS COOPERATION AND ADVICE AT ALL STAGES OB THIS WORK MIGHT WELL ENTITLE HER TO BE NAMED AS CO-AUTHOR PREFACE THAT political struggles are based upon economic interests is to-day disputed by few students of society. The attempt has been made in this work to trace the various interests that have arisen and struggled in each social stage and to determine the influence exercised by these contending interests in the creation of social insti tutions. Back of every political party there has always stood a group or class which expected to profit by the activity and the success of that party. When any party has at tained to power, it has been because it has tried to estab lish institutions or to modify existing ones in accord with its interests. Changes in the industrial basis of society inven tions, new processes, and combinations and methods of producing and distributing goods create new interests with new social...

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