9

Population, increase of, 50

Preparedness, 145

Press censorship, 210

Product ownership, 96

Profiteering, 151

Property, Indian ideas of, 30
" ownership, security of, 107
" rights, and civilization, 113
" rights of, 103
" safeguards to, 108

Public opinion, control of, 98

Resources of the United States, 179

Revolution in Europe, 246

Russia, Allied attack on, 245
" world position of, 231

Slave Coast, 39
" power, defeat of, 61
" trade, America's part in, 44
" " beginnings of, 39
" " conditions of, 43
" " development of, 42

Slavery, and expansion, 60
" beginnings of, 39
" in the United States, 45

Slaves, early demand for, 41

Southwest, conquest of, 51, 57

Sovereignty, source of, 11

Spanish War, 65

Standard Oil Co., 134

Surplus, disposal of, 123
" pressure of, 121

Teutonic peoples, 26

Texas, annexation of, 52

Timber reserves, 180

Transportation facilities, 183

Undeveloped countries, 124

United States, capital of, 181
" " financial power of, 154
" " past isolation, 192
" " position of, 221
" " products of, 184
" " resources of, 179
" " shipping, 188
" " wealth and income, 189
" " world attitude to, 263
" " world power of, 177

Wealth and income, 189
" of the United States, 89
" ownership, 90

Western Hemisphere, and the United States, 200

World conquest, 218

Workers' business, 257

Yellow peril, 232

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