Where a trust becomes a monopoly the State has an immediate right to interfere. Care should be taken not to stifle enterprise or disclose any facts of a business that are essentially private; but the State for the protection of the public should exercise the right to inspect, to examine thoroughly all the workings of great corporations just as is now done with banks; and wherever the interests of the public demand it, it should publish the results of its examination. Then, if there are inordinate profits, competition or public sentiment will give the public the benefit in lowered prices; and if not, the power of taxation remains. It is therefore evident that publicity is the one sure and adequate remedy which we can now invoke. There may be other remedies, but what these others are we can only find out by publicity, as the result of investigation. The first requisite is knowledge, full and complete. * * * * * FIRST ADMINISTRATION INDEX FIRST ADMINISTRATION INDEX A Achievement, cost of, 92 Adams, John Quincy, President, 12, 87, 745 quoted, 755 William, Rev., 45 Administration, qualities needed for, 352 requirements for a good, 5 Admiral of the Navy, 631 Agencies, Indian, reduction of, 595 Aggression by United States, no, 624 Agitation, ignorant, dangers of, 140 Agitators assist their own enemies, 541 Agricultural Association, New York State, 466 experiment stations, 128 prosperity, 251 questions, 438 Agriculture, Alaskan, 424 competition in, 563 Department of, 127, 249, 303, 305, 440, 557, 559, 681, 684 mining and, 437 work of, 303, 304, 557 work in, great, 557 Aguinaldian oligarchy, 65 Aguinaldo, Emilio, 317 Alabama, 511, 517 Alaska, 204, 243, 326, 328, 338, 393, 421, 638-639, 677-678 agriculture in, 424 boundaries of, 664-667 cable to, 678 coal-land laws in, 677 Congressional Committee in, 639 Delegate from, 639 Delegate from, a, 423 development of, 424-425, 677 Farming lands in, 677 fisheries in, 424, 677 Fisheries Commission in, 678 forests of, 638, 677 future of, 422, 428 gateway to, 428 hatcheries, salmon, 678 importance of, great, 426 Indians in, 678 interest in, 428 land laws of, 638, 677 land patents in, 678 laws on, 423, 638 light-houses in, 678 lumbering in, 424 mineral wealth of, 677 mines of, 424 mining interests in, 665 population of, future, 428 provisional boundary of, 665 purchase of, 422 railroads in, 678 resources of, 429, 638 revenue questions in, 665 roads and trails in, 678 salmon industry in, 424, 638, 678 settlers in, 425 stock-raising in, 677 transportation in, 425 Tribunal, appropriation for, 667