Part 41

=Irrepressible Conflict, The New=, 1 --minority vs. majority, 1 --Seward's Irrepressible Conflict and others, 1-2 --class legislation, 2, 5 --value of the superior man, 2 --growing disturbances from the man behind, 2-3 --greenbacks start a crazy cycle, 3 --Bryan and Silver, 3-4 --ideals of the average man, 4 --Jack Cade, Bryan and Roosevelt, 4 --two greatest demagogues in history, 5 --rightful owners of wealth, 5 --Marshall's "Economics of History," 5-6 --Francis A. Walker on profits of employers, 6-7 --source of wealth, 7-8 --Socialism, 8 --taxes mainly for the benefit of the non-taxpayers, 9 --arbitration, 10, 20 --progress of the average man, 11-15 --Karl Marx and his "increasing misery" theory, 11 --rising wages, 12-15 --cost of living, 12 --decreasing hours of labor, 13 --government management, 15-16 --the way to peace, 15-21 --improvement in human nature, 18 --mutual help, 18-19 --trade unions, 20, 21 --education and individual improvement, 19-20.

James, Prof. Wm., 64 --finds Mrs. Piper, 71 --with "Aunt Kate," 74-76 --with G. P., 84 --argument on spiritism, 89, 91-92, 93, 94-98 --with Hodgson control, 97-98.

Jerry, uncle of Sir Oliver Lodge, 81.

Jesus Christ, 121.

_Johnson, Alvin S._, 'The Soul of Capitalism,' 227.

_Jordan, David Starr_, 'The Standing Incentives to War,' 185.

Journalism, American, 216.

Kakuzo, Okakura, 117.

_Kellogg, Vernon L._, 'What is the Matter with the American Colleges?' 214 --'The Baby and the Bee,' 333.

_Knickerbocker Press_, 259.

Labor, antagonisms, 238 --gain of disputes, 239.

LaFarge, John, 117, 119.

Language, some new words, 439.

Larned, J. N., on the newspaper, 424.

Legislation, specimen, 434.

Letters as posthumous evidence of spiritism, 104-106.

Liberty, breadth and strength of that which comes from capitalism, 234 --Puritan and precapitalistic, 235.

Lieber, Francis, 204.

Lincoln, A., anecdote, 124 --tactfulness, 122 --war rules, 204.

Lindsey, Judge Ben. B., 58 --on woman suffrage in Colorado, 330.

=Literature, Our Government Subvention to=, 415 --book production in the United States compared with that of other countries, 415-417 --decrease of book sellers, 418 --growth of periodicals, 419 --as the effect of a low rate of postage, 419-421 --increase of bulk and circulation in periodicals and newspapers, 420-421 --disproportionate postage rates, 422-423 --number of periodicals, 423 --quality of newspapers, 424 --great disproportion between bad and good literature, 424 --picture of the pabulum in the popular magazine, 425 --injustice of postal rates further illustrated, 426 --profits of a publisher, 427 --facts kept from the public, 427 --lobby, 427 --the Home University Library, 429 --why not carry books cheaply? 430.

Lodge, Sir Oliver, 64, 73, 93; sitting with Mrs. Piper, 79-81.

MacCunn, Prof. John, 272, 273.

McNamara dynamitings, 268.

=Majority Juggernaut, The=, 22 --initiative and referendum, 22-23 --cause of existing impatience with governmental methods, 23-24 --direct rule of the people, 24-25 --need of resistance to the immediate desire of the majority in settling certain momentous questions, 25-31 --Henry George and the single tax, 27-28 --difference between representative rule and direct rule, 29-30 --mob rule, 31-32 --Senator Bourne's position, 32-33 --inherent error of the direct-rule propaganda, 32-33.

_Martin, E. S._, 'The Unfermented Cabinet,' 124.

Marx, Karl, 11, 235, 241.

Materialization, 67.

_Mather, F. J., Jr._, 'Two Neglected Virtues,' 112 --'Wanted: Proportionate News,' 216 --'The Right to be Amused,' 297.

=Microbophobiac, The Story of a=, 175.

Morality, Greek, 358.

=Morality, The New=, 47 --Miss Jane Addams as its exponent, 48 --her works, 48-50, 54 --revolution from mediæval religion to humanitarianism, 49-52 --lessened sense of personal responsibility, 52 --modern social sympathy, 53-59 --change of view in the church, 56 --results of humanitarianism, 56, 57 --confusion of moral standards and relaxation of morals, 58, 59 --remedy, 60 --permanent worth of character and its relation to social justice, 61, 62.

_More, Paul Elmer_, 'The New Morality,' 47 --'Natural Aristocracy,' 272.

Moses, Rev. W. Stainton, 68, 69-71 --in Newbold sittings, 90.

Mott, Lucretia, 307, 318, 332.

Murphy, Chas. F., 134, 135, 142.

Myers, F. W. H., 64, 65, 66, 68, 69, 99 --as control with Dorr, 103 --with Mrs. Holland, 103-104 --posthumous letter, 105.

"Near," 440.

New Jersey reform, 139-143.

New York City, causes of fires, 150 --numerous elective offices, 136.

Newbold, Prof. J. R., sittings with Mrs. Piper, 90.

Newell, in Rich's Piper Sitting, 78.

=News, Wanted: Proportionate=, 216.

Newspapers, 421, 424.

Nys, Ernest, 209.

Page, Walter H., 415.

Paine, Tom, on Burke, 281, 282.

Palladino, Eusapia, 67.

Patterson, Wm. B., 259.

Peace, present phase of movement, 197.

=Peace, The Machinery for=, 200 --peaceful policy of Germany and Great Britain, 200 --the work of the First Hague Conference, 200, 202, 203 --arbitration and American arbitral proceedings previous to the Hague Conferences, 201-202 --Roosevelt's objection, 202 --work of the Second Hague Conference, 200, 202, 203-206 --Francis Lieber, President Lincoln, and the Brussels Conference of 1874, 204 --naval war, 204 --International Prize Court, 204, 208 --Declaration of London, 204 --machinery for pacific settlement of international disputes, 205 --international commissions, 205 --Hague Court of Arbitration, composition, 205-206 --work of the Third Hague Conference in 1915, 206-209 --Casablanca case, 207 --tendency to compromise, 207-208 --Supreme Court of Arbitral Justice, 208-209 --Ernest Nys, 209 --arguments for war, 209-211 --industrial and scientific substitutes for war, 210-211 --Prof. Soddy cited, 211.

"Pelham," George, 83-90, 92, 97, 99 --Mrs. Piper recognizes portrait, 86.

Periodicals. _See_ Literature.

Perris, Geo. H., 187.

Personality, secondary, 76.

Peter Ibbetson, 80.

Phinuit, Dr., 71 --his French, 73-77.

=Pigeon-Holes, The Case for=, 343 --method, 343 --classification of ideas, 343-344 --value to civilization, 345-346 --method and efficiency, 346 --the machine age, 346-347 --value of system in scholarship and religion, 347-348 --the other side of the case: limitations to the use of system and classifications, 349-354 --men and truths not easily classified, 349 --the multitudinous differences in things, 350 --different points of view, 351 --mutations of the human spirit, 351 --wholeness of truth, 352 --system a violence to nature, 352 --its injustice and tyranny, 353 --an obstacle to progress, 354 --the judicial view of the case, 355-357 --limitations and qualifications in the employment of method, 355 --an art after all, 356 --the Golden Mean and human quality, 356-357.

Piper, Mrs., 67 --sittings with Hodgson, 74-75 --with Rich, 76-79 --with Lodge, 79-81 --Hodgson second report, 83 --George "Pelham," 83-90.

Plato, character of his _Republic_, 371, 373 --picture of the change from license to tyranny, 275-276.

Podmore, Frank, 64 --conversion, 99.

Postal rates on periodicals, 419.

=Psychical Research, Prof. Bergson and the Society for=, 63 --formation of the society, early members, publications, 64 --thought-transference, 64-65 --"Phantasms of the Living," 65 --zoömagnetism and telekinesis, 66 --Home, the medium, 67, 68 --Eusapia Palladino, 67 --U. S. Moses, 68, 69-71 --Myers on Moses, 69 --Sir Wm. Crookes, 68, 69 --American S. P. R., Hodgson, James, and Mrs. Piper, 71 --Phinuit, etc., 71-73 --reports of sittings, 74-76 --T. Rogers Rich; telepathy or what? 76-79 --Piper English sittings; Sir O. Lodge, 79-80 --Gurney sittings, 80-81 --telepathy and teloteropathy insufficient to explain Piper phenomena, 82 --George "Pelham" sittings, 83-85 --Hodgson and spirit hypothesis, 85-89 --Wm. James's reluctant admissions, 89-98 --W. R. Newbold, 90 --Imperator and followers, 90-91 --death of Hodgson, 93 --Hodgson as control, 93-99 --spirits very human, 96 --character of future world, 96 --Prof. James, 97-98 --conversion of Frank Podmore, 99 --heteromatic writing of Mrs. Verrall and Mrs. Holland, 99-102 --Mrs. Verrall's heteromatic writing, 99 --Mrs. Holland's cipher writing, 100 --automatic verse, 101-102 --letter and its strong evidence, 102 --on death of Myers, 102-103 --his appearances, 103 --notorious stanza, 104 --happiness of controls, 104 --Cross-Correspondence, 104 --two strongest points against spiritism, 104-105 --failure in regard to sealed letters and Moses inconsistencies, 105 --indication of phenomena, 106 --Prof. Bergson's estimate of the Society, 106-107 --on indifference of learned world, 107 --on parallelism, 107-108 --on hypnosis and dreams, 109 --on survival of individuality, 109-110 --on telepathy, 110-111.

_Putnam, Emily J._, 'The Greeks on Religion and Morals,' 358.

"Q," Hodgson's friend, as control, 74.

=Questions, Answering Big=, 214.

Raisin, Jacob S., 259.

Rector, "Spirit" control, 70, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 97.

=Reform, A Needed Unpopular=, 133 --secret oligarchies in chief cities and states of the United States, 133-138 --Tammany, 133-135 --too many offices under direct control of the people, 135-137 --the town meeting of New England, 137 --politicians and bosses as plunderers, 137-138 --moral awakening, 138 --reform in New Jersey, 139-143 --Ex-Senator James Smith, 139-140 --Woodrow Wilson as Governor of New Jersey, 139-140 --conduct of elections and the short ballot, 140 --the direct primary principle, 141 --the problem of cumbersome political machinery, 142-144 --executive responsibility, 142-143 --commission government in cities, 143-144 --judiciary appointments, 143.

Religion, Greek, 358.

Rich, T. Rogers, with Mrs. Piper, 76-79.

=Right to be Amused, The=, 297 --new doctrine of human rights, 297 --its reaction on women, 298 --the right to be amused distinguished from the ordinary pursuit of pleasure, 298-299 --the hungry defiant faces of modern women, 299-300 --the American woman in the nineteenth century, 300-301 --the peculiar right of the good looking American woman, 302 --the modern girl's detachment from responsibilities, 302-303 --little done for right education of girls, 303 --American writers of fiction who picture woman as a mere ornament, 304 --the fault of the American man that she is so, 304-305 --the effect of the projection of women into business and social reforms, 305 --woman's need of companionship; true marriage, 305-306.

Roosevelt, T., 4, 5, 118, 119 --demagoguery, 285-288 --misleading talk compared with previous conduct, 269 --opposition to arbitration, 202.

Ross, Prof. E. A., 264.

St. Paul, 122.

Saloon. _See_ Alcohol.

=Schooling, Our Sublime Faith in=, 375 --demands made on our schools, 375 --criticisms, 376 --putting everything on the schools, 377 --the main purpose of popular education, 377-378 --public welfare, 378 --religion, morality and knowledge as subjects for teaching, 379 --the knowledge desirable, 379-380 --morality, character-building, and the development of the social conscience, 380-381 --religion and the difficulty of teaching it, 381-383 --the present development of the spirit of lawlessness, 383-386 --diminishing respect for law among the better class; capitalists, 384-385 --its evil effect, 385 --time to take thought, 385 --what the schools can do, 386 --the social conscience, the social instinct, and the good of the whole, 386-388 --prevention, 388 --social-minded character, 388.

_Seager, H. R._, 'Trust-Busting as a National Pastime,' 406.

Seward's phrase "The Irrepressible conflict," 1.

Shaw, Dr. Anna, 310.

_Showerman, Grant_, 'The Democrat Reflects,' 34 --'The Story of a Microbophobiac,' 175 --'The Case for Pigeon-Holes,' 343.

=Simplified Spelling=, 218, 440.

Smith, James, in New Jersey, 139-140.

Smith, Munroe, on publishers privileges, 427.

Socialism, 8 --future of, 244 --real strength, 293.

Social justice, 54-62.

=Social Untruth and the Social Unrest=, 252 --legitimate and illegitimate portrayal of existing social evils, 252-253 --nature of present social problems, 253 --danger of deceiving the public, 254 --how well-meaning reformers play into the hands of the Socialists, 254-255 --illustrations of well-meant exaggeration, distortion and misleading presentation of present evils, 256-269 --instance of rubbishy story, 256-258 --exaggerated statements cited about extent of child labor, 259-261 --case of misrepresentation on the part of the Consumers' League as to the rising price of food in restaurants, 261-263 --reformers' indifference to facts, 262-264 --further illustrations, 264-269 --Prof. E. S. Ross's misleading article in the _Atlantic_ on the suppression by the press of important news, 264-265 --misrepresentation as to infant mortality, 266-267 --Mr. Alfred Russel Wallace's inability to weigh facts in his zeal for reform, 267-268 --loose thinking consequent on the McNamara dynamitings, 268 --Mr. Roosevelt's misleading talk compared with his previous conduct, 269 --the dangerous unrest consequent upon all this distortion and deception, 269-271.

Society for Psychical Research (S. P. R.), 63-111.

=Sociological Nightmare=, 245.

Soddy, Prof., 211.

Speer, Dr. Stanhope, 69.

Spiritism, Hodgson's argument for, 87-88, 104-106 --James on, 89, 91-92, 93, 94-98, 104.

Stage. _See_ Decency.

Steel industry, 410, 412.

Sumner, Dr. Helen M., 320.

Tammany, 133-135.

Taxation, 9, 27-28.

Telekinesis, 66-67.

Telepathy, 64-65, 82 --Bergson on, 110.

_Thomas, Calvin_, 'Our Sublime Faith in Schooling,' 375 --'A Model of Divinatory Criticism,' 435.

"Thon," 440.

Thought-transference. _See_ Telepathy.

Tobacco, 212.

=Tobacco, Our: Its Cost=, 145 --value of factory product, 145 --annual amount spent for tobacco, 146 --comparisons, 146-147, 161 --loss of life and property through fires caused by smokers, 147-152 --forest fires thus caused, 151-152 --land required for tobacco culture, 152-153 --cost to railroads, 153 --cost of cleanliness, 153-154 --effects on physical health, 154-155 --effect on mental development, 155 --loss of time, 156 --weakening of the social sense, 156-157 --effect on efficiency and the will power, 157 --credit side of the account, 158-159 --taxes and duties, 158 --euphoria, 158-159 --habit, 159 --the social balance sheet, 159-160 --further considerations and conclusion, 161-162 --Dr. Burton cited, 145, 162.

Toleration, 234, 240.

Townsend, Mrs. Geo. W., 312.

_Trent, W. P._, 'A Sociological Nightmare,' 245.

=Trust-Busting as a National Pastime=, 406 --trust legislation in Germany, 406 --in America, 406-407 --dangerous bills proposed, 407 --inconsistent railroad policy, 408 --Interstate Commerce Commission and rate fixing, 408 --prohibiting combinations, 408 --advantage of combination, 409-412 --Union Pacific-Southern Pacific separation, 408 --telephone and telegraph separation, 409 --the steel industry and advantages of combination, 410-412 --regulated competition and regulated monopoly, 412-413 --merits of an Interstate Trade Commission, 413-414.

Universities, duty of, 295; _See also_ Colleges.

=Uplift Legislation, A Specimen of=, 434.

=Virtues, Two Neglected=, 112 --reticence and tact out of fashion, 112-113 --face value of talkativeness, 114 --unpopularity of reticence and tact due to their being "head" virtues, 115-116 --increasing value in complicated society, 116 --taciturnity, 116-117 --Okakura Kakuzo, 117 --John LaFarge, 117, 119 --American garrulity, 118 --one merit of Pragmatism, 118 --Roosevelt, 118-119 --incompatibility of free talk and tactfulness, 119 --the gentle arts of tact, 119-120 --feminine and masculine tact, 120 --shy people, 121 --tact of Jesus, 121 --of St. Paul, John Hancock, Lincoln, Charles II, 122 --tactlessness of Dr. John Rubens, 122-123 --relativity of tact, 122-123 --Samuel Butler quoted, 123.

Verrall, Mrs., heteromatic writing, 99.

Visions, 65.

Wages, 12-15.

Walker, Francis A., 6-7.

Wallace, Alfred Russel, 267.

Walsh, Mrs., Kate, as spirit control, 74-76.

=War, The Standing Incentives to=, 185 --modern war system of "peace by preponderance," 185-186 --its elements and advocates, 186-187 --war traders and war trusts, 187-188 --papers by G. H. Perris and Francis Delaisi, 187-188 --British, French and German companies interested in war, 187-190 --war scares, 189 --war-syndicates in the United States, 191 --money-lenders, 191 --exploiting companies, 191-192 --hereditary aristocracy, 192 --false education, 192 --the responsibility of the individual citizen, 193 --national debts, 194 --hollowness of the system, 194 --repudiation, 194 --causes of national decline, 195 --disease and vandalism, 196 --our proper line of attack on the war system, 197 --present phase of the peace movement, 197 --arbitration and conciliation, 198 --America's position, 198-199.

Wealth, 7.

Wilde, Miss, posthumous letters, 104-106.

Williams, Talcott, 421.

Wilson, Woodrow, character of his cabinet and administration, 124 --Governor of New Jersey, 139-140.

Wofsmiths, 377.

=Woman Suffrage, How [it] has Worked=, 307 --the indictment against man by the suffragists of 1848 in their "Declaration of Sentiments," 307-308 --woman's emancipation has come about chiefly without the ballot, 308-309 --married woman's position at present in New York State, 308-309 --other States and the industrial position of women, 309-310 --educational privileges that have been gained by woman without the ballot, 310 --her rights and privileges in Protestant churches, 310 --so many results achieved without the ballot indicate that it is not needed, 311 --suffragists contend that much remains to be done, 311-313 --joint guardianship laws, 311-312 --method by which the New York law was obtained, 312 --strife of "antis" and "pros," 313 --contentions and replies in parallel columns regarding various state laws for the protection of wage-earning women, 313-318 --Miss Bronson vs. Miss Abbott and Prof. Breckinridge, 313, 318-319, 329 --statements on both sides of the controversy show amelioration not due to exercise of ballot, 318-319 --nevertheless it is still contended that the ballot is the quickest and surest way, 319 --Dr. Helen M. Sumner on the pay of women in Colorado, 320 --hours of work in Massachusetts and in Utah, 320 --laws of Colorado (a woman suffrage State) and of Pennsylvania (a male-suffrage State) in regard to the protection of women and children compared in parallel columns, 321-326 --the minimum wage question, 327 --the real argument of the American Woman Suffrage Association itself appears to be against suffrage extension, 327-328 --statistics showing small percentage of women who go to the polls, 328-329 --women generally show less interest in registering and in voting than men, 329 --the bearing of this fact on law enforcement, 329-330 --Judge Lindsey's testimony, 330 --more persons have laws beneficial to women and children under male suffrage than under equal suffrage, 331 --no distinctive results of woman suffrage in the Union where it has been granted in part or in whole, 332 --results from the indirect influence of women, 332.

Zoömagnetism, 66-67.

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