149; how to destroy monopoly of, 380-394, 407, 408, 409, 410-412; mo- nopoly of, in ancient Greece, 355- 356; in Rome, 364-365, 366, 367; in France before Revolution, 372-373. Lawson, Thomas W., on evil business methods, 60, 250; political corrup- tion, 250, 261.
353; in Greece, 356-357, 362; in Rome, 368-370; acts against the press, 271.
Mill, John Stuart, slaves of toil, 138- 139; obsolete in the universities, 295; tax on rent cannot be shifted, 385; taxation of unearned fortunes, 386.
Lawyers, employed by, 176-177, 407- Mitchell, John, plea for organization 408.
Lecky, W. E. H., marriage and divorce
Lighton, William R., Western land stealings, 36-37. L'impôt unique, 385.
Lincoln, Abraham, returning mon-
archy, 101-102; equal rights, 106, 150; capital not superior to labor, 149-150.
Mackay fortune, sources and uses of, 33-35, 65, 68. Mæcenas, 368.
Mahaffy, Professor J. P., Greek social and political conditions, 353-356, 357, 361.
Marriage, changed views respecting,
81-85, 100-101; degradation in Rome, 371-372; and in France, 375- 376.
McClure, S. S., increase of murders and homicides, 138.
McGlynn, Rev. Edward, excommuni-
cation and reinstatement, 308-312. McKinley, President, and Cœur d'Alene trouble, 333; the Hawaiian Islands, 339.
of wage-earners, 115-116, 161; on injunctions, 175.
Mommsen, Theodor, relaxing of family life in Rome, 371.
Moody, John, estimate of country's wealth, 8, 236.
Morals, deterioration of public and private, 9-13, 25, 26, 44, 51–62, 73-87, 104-106, 123-125, 129-130, 135-140, 162-172, 229-246, 247-263, 266-321, 325-326, 327-328, 338, 353; how to improve, 409-413; morals in ancient Greece, 355-358, 359, 360, 361-362; in Rome, 362-372; in France before the Revolution, 374-376. Morgan, J. Pierpont, his business methods, 51-62, 366; patron of lib-
Morton, Paul, railroad rebates, 239-243.
Ostrogorski, Moissei Yakovlevich, cen- tralization in politics, 263, 330–331. Order, the natural, 409-413.
Parkhurst, Rev. Charles H., Philadel- phia "comfortably rotten," 258. Parry, David M., president Citizens' Industrial Association, 170.
Meade, Professor E. S., Steel Trust Peabody, Gov. J. H., of Colorado, 200,
202-203, 206, 207–212, 329.
Meat Trust, based upon railroad privi- Pericles, Golden Age of, 354-355; fu- leges, 401-402.
Military, distrust of civil government, | 100-101; in strikes, 189, 201-212, 213-226, 329, 333, 380, 412-413; to lesson use of, 412-413; in Hawaiian Islands, 338-339; in Santo Domingo, 340, 341; in Panama, 344; in the Philippines, 347-348; centralization of, 351; use of marines in peace time, 351-352; the spirit of, 352-
neral oration of, 360–361. Perkins, George W., insurance com- panies in politics, 58, 59, 234. Philippines, our conduct in, 104, 346- 348.
Plato, philosophy of, 355, 356. Pliny, great estates ruined Italy, 364, 366.
Political Economy, the true, 287-288; as taught in the universities, 288–302.
Politics, Privilege in, 43, 58-59, 201-202, 211-212; attacks upon suffrage, 100- 103, 210-211, 212, 326-327, 352, 361; courts and, 199-200, 207-209, 211, 216, 226, 348-350; in Greece, 356- 357, 362; in Rome, 367, 368-369; purification of, 412.
Porto Rico, the insular cases, 348-350. Post, Louis F., principles of marriage and divorce, 84; Colorado injunc- tion, 199–200; "chair of economics,"
Poverty, little, in early days of Repub- lic, 1, 4-6, 7; present extent, 8-9, II, 12; cause of, 14-26, 77-78, 105, 109- 120; penalties of, 103-106, 121-140. Press, its bondage to Privilege, 267– 285, 306, 412.
Privilege, meaning, 16-17, 379; various kinds of, 17-25; classified, 24-25, 62, 380, 409; types of Princes of, 29-62; how Princes of, live, 63–72, and their amusements, dissipations and mari- tal relations, 73-87; breeds the aris- tocratic idea, 88-106; despoils the masses, 105-106, 109-120; causes deterioration, 121-140; not to be confounded with capital, 149-150, 412; compels laborers to organize, 143-155, 156, 157, 159; treaties with labor unions, 165–168, 172; engages "Free Companies," 168-169; Citi- zens' Alliances and, 169-172; the courts and, 175-185, 186-200; uses soldiers, 201-212, 213-226; corrupts politics, 229-246, 247-263, 330-332, 337; the press and, 267-285; the university and, 286-305; the pulpit and, 306-321; influence on legisla- tion, 326-327, 328, 329; favors foreign aggression, 338; civilizations gone before and, 354-376; remedy for, 379-413. Pulpit, dependence of Privilege, 306- 321; to free the, 412.
Railroads, land grants to, 37-38; pub- lic highways, 38-39, 40; rebates, 41- 44, 46-47, 48, 50, 317, 399-402; dis- criminating rates, 39; centralization
of, 39-40, 55; in politics and legisla- tion, 233-234, 238-246, 247-249, 251, 253-254, 258, 259, 260, 326-327, 328; influence over the press, 282-283; injunctions and, 334-335; futility of attempts to regulate, 402-403; gov- ernment operation of, 403-404, 408, 409, 412.
Rent, its nature and operation, 20-22, 117, 382-387, 389-394, 411-412. Rockefeller, John D., his fortune and its source, 41-44, 401; Chicago Uni- versity, 297-299; foreign missions' gift, 316-321; compared with Roman rich men, 365.
Rockefeller, Jr., John D., telegram to six senators, 238-239; the American Beauty rose, 320, 373.
Rogers, Henry H., delicate finances, 60-61; railroad rebates, 316–317. Rogers, Thorold, appropriation by rent, 21.
Rome, land laws of, 16; destroyed by Privilege, 362-372, 381.
Roosevelt, President, divorce laws, 83; political corruption funds, 234; Little- field anti-trust bill, 238; Morton re- bate matter, 239-243; railroad passes, 245-246; exclusive orders, 335-337; Santo Domingo, 340-342; Panama Canal, 343-345; police duty on West- ern Hemisphere, 345-346.
Root, Eliu, constitutional limitations, 333.
Ryan, Thomas F., insurance matters, 57-58.
Sallust, conditions in Rome, 362-363, 370.
Santo Domingo, protocol with, 339- 342.
Schiff, Jacob, high finance, 58. Schurz, Carl, political "fat-frying," 237; Panama, 344-345. Schwab, Charles M., the State Trust, 52-53, 391, 405; his palatial resi- dence, 64.
Seabury, Judge Samuel, on injunc- tions, 181, 186-187, 190, 196- 198.
Shearman, Thomas G., distribution of wealth, 9, 116, 117 n. Single tax, see Taxation. Slavery, industrial, among us, 360; black, 19, 102; Russian serf, 19; in Greece, 355-357, 359; among the Romans, 363, 370; religious argu- ment for negro, 315. Smith, Adam, wages, 4, 120; pecun- iary value of a child, 120, 126; law of generation, 126-127; university teaching, 293-294; his teachings obsolete in universities, 294-295; dependence of the clergy, 306-307. Smith, Goldwin, growth of aristocratic idea, 96; breakdown of municipal politics, 262; government by com- mission, 327-328. Socrates, philosophy of, 355, 356. Spahr, Charles B., distribution of wealth, 8, 117 n.
Spitzka, Edward A., crime bred by
social conditions, 140. Standard Oil Company, history of, 41- 44, 399, 401; privileges, 317, 383, 391, 397, 399, 401; in politics, 237-239, 250; influence on education, 296-
Steel Trust, Directors of, 8 n.; its or- ganization, 49-50, 51-55, 56-57, 366; its privileges, 43, 391-392, 395, 396- 397, 399-400, 405; attitude toward labor unions, 146, 168; promotion syndicate earnings, 233; how to de- stroy, 391-392.
Suffrage, attacks of, 100-103, 210-211, 212, 326-327, 352, 361; in Greece, 355, 356; in Rome, 364, 368. Sugar Trust, in politics, 252, 255, 259. Suicides, increasing percentage of, 133- 134, 412.
48, 50; does not raise wages, 144- 146; its operation, 395-397; influ- ence on legislation, 233, 234-235, 236, 237, 259; influences on some univer- sities, 296; the insular cases, 348- 350; should be abolished, 397, 399, 409, 411-412; Roman jus commercii, 365.
Taxation, upon the toil of labor, 24-25, 117, 386-387, 409; the way it helps monopolies, 273-274; four maxims of, 386; on land values, 24, 384-394, 407, 408, 411. See Tariff also. Tolstoy, existing position of science, 292; inequity of private property in land, 381-382.
Unions, labor, see Laborers. Universities, influence of Privilege on, 286-305, 412.
Vanderbilt family, nature of fortune, 40; style of living, 66, 67, 71.
Wages, when high in America, 2, 4-5;
cause of falling, or stationary, 22, 143– 144; at present tend to a minimum, 115-116, 129, 144; law of, 143–144; why higher in America than in Eu- rope, 145, 146, 149; not increased by tariff, 144-146; trade unions and rate of, 150-154, 162; how perma- nently to raise, 411-412.
Walker, F. Sydney, industrial old-age limit in America and England, 148– 149.
Warner, John De Witt, expense of college life, 303-304. Washington, George, his fortune, 3, 4; indentured laborers, 5; eagerness to acquire land, 26.
Tacitus, military rule in Rome, 369- Wealth, great increase in production 370.
Taft, Secretary William H., trial by jury, 104-105; labor injunctions, 104, 187.
Taine, H. A., ancient régime in France, 372-376.
Tariff, a form of privilege, 24, 43, 45,
of, 7, II, 12; its distribution in early days, 1-6; unequal distribution be- gins, 7; present distribution, 7-13; cause of unequal distribution, 14-26; types of those who have most, 29-62; display of, 63-72; effects on owners of great, 73-106; compared with
Rome, 367; how to effect more
equal distribution of, 379-413. Whitney, Edward B.,
Whitney, William C., high finance, 60; |
palatial residence, 63; great game park, 67.
Young, Arthur, social conditions in old France, 374.
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