Index 



lation, 7 



Possible, achievement of the, delay- 

 ing, 611 



Postage, pound rate of, 600 



Postal abuses, 60 1 

 crimes, 66 1 

 progress, recent, 600 

 service, 599-601 

 service, deficit of, 599 

 service, growth of, 599 



Postmaster-General, 656 



Post-office Department, 60 1 

 revenues, 634 

 frauds in, 661 



Potomac, River, 483 



Pound rate, postal, limiting the, 

 601 



Preaching and practicing, 461-462, 

 481 



Precepts, unintelligent, harmful, 289 



Preferences in rates forbidden, 280 



Preparation and forethought, need 

 of, 580 



Presbyterian Church, 44, 501 ' 



Present conditions, superiority of, 



101 

 rejoicing in the, 607 



Presidency, difficulties of, 5, 13 



President accountable to Nz 

 appointments by, 8 

 burden of the, 10-11 

 demand for capacity in, 9 

 dissatisfaction with, 9 

 duties of, on revenue, 7 

 duty of, to enforce laws, 281 

 Federal departments and, 3 

 friends, his difficulty with, n 

 great tasks before, 7 

 importance of, i 

 "ingratitude" of, 12 

 legislative functions of, 2 

 mail of, immense, 1 1 

 personality of, 2 

 policy of, criticising, 5-6 

 power of, 2, 5, 12 

 power of, to stop legislation, 3 

 protection of, proper, 535 

 recommending legislation, 2 

 reconciling interests, 9 

 requests made to, n 

 respect due to, 6 

 responsibilities of, 5, 8 

 requisites for a good, 5 

 retired, the, 12, 13 

 Senate and, harmony of, 4 

 Treasury and the, 8 

 unable to answer letters, n 

 veto power of, 2 

 work of, constant, 10 



Presidents of United States, defects 



in, 6 



high character of, 6 

 Tennesseean, 203 



Pressure for promotions, 586 



Principles, American, fundamental, 

 499, 620 



Printer, public, 518, 519, 520 



Printing, Government, great cost of, 

 643 



Office, Government, 518 



public, unnecessary, 643 

 Private property, exemption of, 671 



in war time, 671-672 

 Prizes for naval gunnery, 631 

 Problem, forest, the, 251 

 Problems, attitude toward, 397 



dealing with, 331 



economic, solution of, 106 



false remedies for, 274 



industrial, 143, 159, 274, 302 



industrial and economic, 292 



industrial, how not solved, 199 



industrial, solutions of, 175 



industrial, treatment of, 307 



in 2oth century, 607 



nature of, 173 



present-day, 137-144 



qualities in solving, 334 



social and economic, 85-86 



social, solution of, 25 



solving, certainty of, 607 



temper in treating, 149-150 



true spirit in meeting, 274 



trust-control, no 

 Procedure, legal, needs in, 525 

 "Productive scholarship," 28, 456 

 Progress, conditions of, 357 



sudden advance of, 152 



universal, joy at, 271 

 Progressive regulation, 609 

 Promise and performance, 108, 413- 



414, 432 



Promises, public and private, 414 

 Promotions, Army, on merit, 587 



pressure for, 586 

 Property guaranteed to all, 653 



inviolability of, 609 



misuse of, 132 



private, in war time, 671-672 



rights conserved by law, 112 



true use of, 476 

 Prosperity, advent of, 236 



agricultural, 251 



all share in, 467 



American, conditions of, 577 



attacks on, evil, 273 



average of, 467 



commercial, 98 



common interest in, 286 



conditions of, 98 



continuance of, 201 



defined, 418 



destruction of, 99 



energy and, 99 



envy at, 98 



evils in times of, 99, 214, 608 



general, 613 



high level of present, 552 



Homestead Law and, 637 



industrial, 147 



industrial period of, 24 



in Porto Rico, 567, 627 



in the Philippines, 568 



