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Buffalo, the, 19, 21, 24, 27-29.
Bull Run, battle of, 38.
Bunyan, John, his Man with the
Muck-rake, 121.

Business, and government, 132-
53; which is hurt by the move-
ment for honesty, 146; hurting,
193.

Cabins, of backwoodsmen, 8, 9.
Capital and labor, Lincoln's atti-
tude toward, 150, 151.

acter, 50, 80, 96; asset in na-
tion's greatness, 146; effort to
enforce principle of, 148; appli-
cation of, 165, 168.
Competency, 73. See Efficiency.
Competition, 165.

Compromise, necessity of, 130.
Conscience, liberty of, 196.
Conservation, 164-68.
Conservatism, and radicalism,
148-51.

Contract, freedom of, 154, 159.
Capitalist and wage worker, prob- Control, of corporations, 175; of
lem of, 134.

governmental agents, 180.

8.

Carlyle, Thomas, his prophecies, Corn, resource of backwoodsmen,
306.
Cavour, C. B. di, a worker for

peace of righteousness, 239.
Chance, element of, in success, 80.
Chancellorsville, battle of, 38-42.
Character, 45-55; the thing that
counts, 50; the qualities that
constitute, 50, 80, 95; growth
in, the determining factor in
self-government, 55; better than
genius, 95.

Charity, and love, 63.
Child labor, 153.

Corporations, abuses in, 136-38;
and publicity, 138, 139, 145;
taxation of, 139-42; control of,
175. See Trusts.
Corruption, 112–21.
Courage, an elemental virtue,
48, 95; all-important, 61, 62; and
honesty, 72.

Court of Arbitral Justice, 245.
Courts, 158-63.

Coyotes, 24.

Critics, 119, 120.

Children, at Sagamore Hill, 291- Crockett, Daniel, 33–35.

95.

China, 230, 236, 249.

Church and State, separation of,
206.

Citizenship, pride in, 49.

Good.

Cross country, 266-69.

Cuba, Roosevelt in, in Spanish
War, 276-81.

Cumberland Gap, 20.

See Cushing, William B., 213.

Civic reformer, the, 270-76.
Civil War, the, 173, 234.
Clark. See Lewis and Clark.
Class, the word hardly applicable

to American life, 187; democ-
racy cannot be built on lines of,
190.

Class cleavage, 187-94.
Clubs, political, 102-04.

Custer, General George A., 209,
210.

Death, 88-92; the law of, and
nations, 305.

Decency, 70-73, 81, 95, 100; civic,
49, 107; not weakness, 51, 52,
61.

Deeds, the homage of, 46; in
service, 87; and words, 243.

Coal strike settlement, 166, 281- Deer, 12, 19, 21, 24, 27–29, 32.
83.

Collective bargaining, 154, 155.
Common sense, a quality of char-

Democracy, based on service, 83;
experiment in, 186; in country
districts of America, 188; cannot

be built on class lines, 190; in-
dustrial, 192.

Dewey, Admiral George, 201.
Division of labor, 152.

Divorce, 70.

Doctrinaire, the, 129.

Domestic service, 85.
Dutch, in the colonies, 5.
Duty, 49, 306; well and honestly
done, happiness the result of,
71; performance of, to be ex-
acted, 88; of the individual, 93-
101; nationalism of, 219.

Early, Jubal A., 39.
Economic policy, stability of,
needed, 143.

Education, attained by a process,
not an act, 54; of good according
to its use, 97-99; industrial, 153.
Efficiency, not to be left to the

Devil's agents, 52; and honesty,
72, 73; not to be penalized, 75;
in politics, 75; in military mat-
ters, 75, 76.

Effort, sustained, 52, 151; the law
of worthy life, 67.
Elephant hunting, 298-302.
Elk, the, 12, 19, 21, 24, 27-29, 32;

the call of the bull, 263-65.
Emerson, R. W., 241.
Employers' liability law, 147, 167.
Endeavor, goal of national great-
ness to be won through, 59.
Energy, business, 153.
English language, 208.

portance of, 65-70; highest ideal
of, 69; duty of perpetuating, 90.
Farmers, 152.

Farragut, David G., 209, 213.
Finances, corporate, 152.

Flag, the American, 199, 206, 208,
216.

Flowers, on Long Island, 288.
Foreign policy, 228, 229, 232.
Forest, of the backwoodsmen, 6, 9.
Forests, public, 166.
Fort Mandan, 26.
Forts, stockade, 7, 8.
Fortunes, large, 153.
France, warning of her history,
184, 185.

Franchises, taxation of, 140–42.
Frankness, 72.

Fredericksburg, 38, 39.
Freedom, of contract, 154, 159;
of opportunity, 164-68.
Frontiersmen. See Backwoodsmen.

Game, of the backwoodsmen, 12,
13, 19, 21, 24; encountered by
Lewis and Clark, 27-32.
Genius, 78, 95.

Germans, in the colonies, 5; and
German-Americans, 199-207.
Gettysburg, 52-54.
God, fearing, 216-19.
Goethals, Colonel George Wash-
ington, 200.

Good, the general, 165, 168, 177.
Good citizen, qualities needed to
make, 72.

Enthusiasm toward the right, a Good citizenship, the basis of,

quality of character, 50.
Equality, of opportunity, 147,
173, 174; association on plane
of, 188, 189; of consideration
and respect, 208, 209.
Evans, Admiral Robley D., 201.
Expediency and principle, 284,
285.

Extremes, to be avoided, 192, 193.

45-92; the basis of just govern-
ment, 93-131.

Good man, the strong and the
timid, 51, 52.
Government, just, the basis of,
93-131; from without and from
within, 93; by the people, 93,
94; the basis of national unity,
132-86; and business, 132-53.
Grant, U. S., 209.

Family, the, and the home, im- Grant, Frederick D., 200.

Gray, Captain Robert, 31.
Great Adventure, the, 88-92.
Great Falls of the Missouri, 30.
Great Plains, animals of, 24.

Hague conferences, 240, 241, 244,
245.

"Hands across the Sea," 203.
Happiness, as result of duty well

and Lewis and Clark, 25, 26,
30-32; and David Crockett, 33.
Individual, the duty of the, 93-
101.

Individualism, system of, 154;
unlimited, is ruinous, 194.
Industrial democracy, 192.
Industrial education, 153.
Industrial liberty, 164.

and honestly done, 71; pursuit | Industrial life, modern, 132-86.
of, 164.

Harrodsburg, settlement of, 20.
Hawkins, General Hamilton S.,
280.

Hearne, Samuel, 28.

Heintzelman, General Samuel P.,
210.

Herding, night, 257-59.
Heroism, feats of, 213.

High finance, 146.

Highways, national, 152.
Homage of deeds, the, 46.

Home, the, and the family, im-
portance of, 65-70.

Honesty, importance of, 49, 72, 73,
95, 118, 146-48; not merely law-
honesty, 114.

Hooker, Joseph, 38-42.
Houston, Samuel, 36.

Howard, General Oliver O., 39, 40.
Hunting, anecdote, 77; and train-
ing, 78, 79; midwinter, 253-57;
cross country, 266-69; elephant,
298-302.

Industrial peace, 242.
Inheritance tax, 153.

International peace. See Peace.
International law, 219.

International organization for
peace, 233-50.

International relations, 226-32.
Internationalism, 219, 223–25.
Irish, in the colonies, 4, 5.

Jackson, Stonewall, of Round-
head type, 37, 38; military suc-
cess of, 38; death, 38-42.
Jews, 197, 198, 201.
Judges, 158–63.

Judiciary, the, 158-63.
Justice, 49, 50, 141; and privilege,
struggle between, 182-84; social
and industrial, 185; and peace,
242.

Keenan, Major Peter, 41.
Kenton, Simon, 22.

Kentucky, the founding of, 18-23.

Husband, the primary duty of, Know-nothingism, 207.
65, 66.

Koran, proverb based on text in, 55.

Hyphenated Americans, 199-210, Korea, 236.
218.

Ideals, practical, 72, 73, 76, 99-
101, 127-31, 223, 243; to be
fought for, 90.

Idler, the, 64.

Labor and capital, Lincoln's atti-

tude toward, 150, 151.

Labor unions, 154-57.

Law, 136, 137, 194; support of,
171; international, 219.

Immigrants, must become Amer- Lawless violence, 112, 113, 118,
icanized, 205-07.

Indians, and backwoodsmen, 7,

13, 14; and Daniel Boone, 20-
23; attack Boonesborough, 22;

119.

Laws, in period of prosperity, 142,
143; enacted for benefit of whole
people, 169.

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Lawton, Lieutenant Louis B., 278. | Mexicans, at the fall of the Alamo,

League of Peace, 246-50.

Lee, Lighthorse Harry, 209.
Lee, Robert E., 38-42.

Legislature, and the courts, 161.
Leisure, wisely used, 56.
Lewis and Clark, expedition, 24-
32; their narrative, 25; their
dealings with the Indians, 25,
26, 30-32; the game encountered
by, 27-31.

Liberty, by whom achievable, 131;
of contract, 154, 159; industrial,
164; danger of being misled by
the word, 191, 192; and tyranny,
and anarchy, 193; order with-
out, 193; of conscience, 196.
Lies, 125.

Life, the vicious, 71; of vapid
ease, 71; like traveling on a
ridge crest, 73.
Life-saving service, 221.
Lincoln, Abraham, 48, 192, 209;
a conservative leader of radical-
ism, 148-51; on the struggle
between justice and privilege,
183, 184; a worker for peace of
righteousness, 239; Roosevelt's
hero, 286; characteristics of,
286.

33-36.

Midwinter hunting, 253-57.
Mills, Major, 278, 279.
Minorities, tyranny of, 179, 180.
Missouri, State of, 23, 24.
Mob, tyranny of, 191, 192.
Mocking-bird, the, 265, 266.
Monopoly, 165.

Monroe Doctrine, 226, 227.
Moral purpose, a necessary virtue,
48.

Morality, political, 112-26.
Morgan, Pierpont, 281-83.
Motherhood, fear of, 57; honor-
ableness of, 66–68.
Muck-raking, 121-26.
Muhlenberg, Peter, 209, 210.

Names, danger of being misled
by, 191.

Nation, rests upon the individual,
49; greatness of, qualities that
go to make up, 50; greatness of,
to be won through strife and
endeavor, 59; and States, di-
vision of governmental power
between, 143, 144.

National Republican Convention
of 1884, 110.

Love, and charity, 63; and work, National strength, national unity

64.

Luxembourg, 230, 236.

Machine, political, 104-07.
Machine politicians, 104.

Machinery, advantages conferred
by, 152.

Mackenzie, Alexander, 27, 28.
Majority, judgment of, 161; tyr-
anny of, 179.

the basis of, 187-210; the basis
of international peace, 211–50.
National unity, just government
the basis of, 132-86; the basis of
national strength, 187–210.
Nationalism, 223–25; of duty, 219.
Nations, the fall of, 306.
Natural resources, 167.
Nebraska, 24.
Neutrality, 220.

Malthus, his fears as to the future, New Nationalism, 178.

305.

Manliness, individual, 49; all-im-

portant, 61, 62.

Marion, General Francis, 209.
Marriage, 68.

Mendacity, 118, 120, 122.

New York City, politics in, 96,
109-11; the mayor and alder-
men of, 270-76.

New York State, democracy in,

188.

Newspapers, 208.

Niebuhr, B. G., his guess as to the | Political life, the prime object of,

future, 305.

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99.

Political Morality, 112-26.

Politicians, represent the people,

94; of common sense, 96; ma-
chine, 104.

Politics, need of efficiency in, 75;
the kind of people in, 96; prac-
tical, 102-11; and religion, 196-
98.

Postal savings banks, 152.
Poverty, and the State, 134.
Practical politics, 102-11.
Practice, and ideals, 72, 73, 76, 99-
101, 127-31, 223, 243; preaching
and, 276, 277.

Prairie, the, 260-63.

Pacifism and pacifists, 218, 220, Prairie dogs, 25.

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Patriotism, 211, 218, 219.
Peace, not the end of all things, 58;
international, national strength
the basis of, 211-50; world, on
what it rests, 219; and right-
eousness, 219, 220, 230, 239,
241, 242; international organiza-
tion for, 233-50; industrial, 242.
Peace congresses, 237, 239, 240.
People, as sovereign, 93, 94; the
right of, to rule, 179-86; the
plain, 285-87.

Perkins, George W., 281, 282.
Pets, at Sagamore Hill, 293–95.
Pioneers, 3-17. See Backwoods-

men.

Plain people, the, 285-87.
Platitudes, 128.

Plato, the Republic, 129.
Play, 59.

Pleasonton, Alfred, 41.
Pleasure, pursuit of, 71.

Police, 235, 236, 246; international,
236, 246.

Political clubs, 102-04.

Preaching and practice, 276, 277.
Preparedness, national, 211-22; of

soul and spirit, 214-16; personal,
235.

Presbyterian Irish, in the colonies,
4, 5.

Principle, and expediency, 284,
285.

Privilege, special, 173-75, 178,
182, 193.

Progress, condition of, 173.
Promise, and performance, 125,
126.

Property, relations of, to human
welfare, 176.

Prophet, the, 302, 303; of evil,
305.

Prosperity, national, 142.

Protestants, 196-98, 201.
Prudence, 143.

Public, the, the third party in
industrial disputes, 156.

Public lands, 166.

Public life, 73, 79, 80.

Public opinion, check on improper
use of wealth, 133.

Public utilities, 134.

Publicity, of trust transactions,
138, 139, 145.

Pure food law, 167.,

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