Economist; born in
Brookline, Mass., Feb. 10, 1827; was educated in private schools and at Dartmouth College; and is most widely known by his numerous publications on economic subjects, treating of banking, competition, cookery, mechanic arts, the tariff, insurance, etc. He invented an improved
cooking-stove called the “Aladdin Cooker.”
Soon after
Dewey's victory in
Manila Bay,
Mr. Atkinson became vice-president of the Anti-Imperialist League, and when it was evident that the
United States would retain the
Philippine Islands, the League produced three tracts, entitled
Criminal aggression by whom? the Hell of War and its penalties; and
The cost of the National crime.
Gen. Elwell S. Otis, commander of the United States troops in the Philippines, early in 1899 notified the War Department that several seditious tracts, mailed in the
United States, had been received by many officers and men in his command.
After investigation instructions were given to the
Postmaster-General to inform
Mr. Atkinson and all postmasters in the
United States that the mails would be closed to further transmission of the publications.
In justification of his action,
Mr. Atkinson declared that the tracts referred to were reprints from government publications and as such were rightfully entitled to circulation through the mails.
Mr. Atkinson's publications include
The distribution of products (1885);
Industrial progress of the nation (1889);
The Science of Nutrition (1892);
Taxation and work (1892);
Every boy his own book (1893), etc. See
acquisition of Territory;
annexed Territory, status of;
imperialism. 
