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.
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.
China, 230, 236, 249.
Church and State, separation of, 206.
Citizenship, pride in, 49.
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.
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.
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. Enthusiasm toward the right, a 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.
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.
Good citizenship, the basis of, 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.
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.
Husband, the primary duty of, 65, 66.
Hyphenated Americans, 199-210,
Ideals, practical, 72, 73, 76, 99- 101, 127-31, 223, 243; to be fought for, 90.
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 liberty, 164. Industrial education, 153. Industrial life, modern, 132–86. 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. Judges, 158–63. Jews, 197, 198, 201.
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. Know-nothingism, 207. Kentucky, the founding of, 18-23.
Korea, 236. Koran, proverb based on text in, 55.
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,
Indians, and backwoodsmen, 7,
13, 14; and Daniel Boone, 20- 23; attack Boonesborough, 22;
Laws, in period of prosperity, 142, 143; enacted for benefit of whole people, 169.
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.
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
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.
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.
Night-herding, 257-59.
Nobel Peace Prize, 241, 242. Norway, 188.
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.
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-
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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