wrongdoing in the, 97, 313, 628 Phœnician merchant-princes, 201 Phœnicians, 151 Physical development, need of, 293 Pilgrims, the, 365 Pinchot, Gifford, Bureau Chief, 249, 681 Pinckney, Charles, Secretary, 343 Pioneer preachers, work of, 245-246 settlers, watercourses and, 562 Pioneers, achievement of, 420 descendants of, 606 German, in America, 450 Western, 419 Western, work of, 414 Piracy, 535 Plagues, quarantine against, 641 Plain people, prosperity of, 608 Platt Amendment, 23, 295, 621, 645 Platt, Orville H., Senator, 85 Play and work, 379 relation of, 294 Plenipotentiaries, 601-602 Plutocracy, 470 Poe, Edgar Allan, 456 Policies, effect of continuous, 608 Policing, international, growing need of, 624 Policy, common-sense, a, 271 economic, stability of, 190, 550 enforcing a, 441 fixity of, 113 foreign, a sound, 272 land, United States, 388, 441 Monroe Doctrine, our, 632 National, justice as the, 396 National, on the Navy, 402 public land, wise, 681 United States forest, 249 Political influence in offices, 586 Politicians, “bread-and-butter,” 9 Politics in insular possessions, 593 Polk, James K., President, 748 Poor and rich, legal equality of the, 620 Popular government and bribery, 663 Population, concentration of, 274 urban, evils in, 100 urban, growth of, 100 Porcupine River, Alaska, 667 Portland Canal, 664, 666 Portland, Me., 122 Portland, Ore., 419 exposition at, 677 Porto Rico, 22, 87, 185, 237, 577, 590 appropriation for, 315 difficulties in, 88 free trade with, 567 government of, 88-89, 567, 627 merit system in, 593 progress in, 679 prosperity in, 567, 627 public lands in, 567 situation in, 567 United States rule in, 237 Possible, achievement of the, delaying, 611 Postage, pound rate of, 600 Postal abuses, 601 crimes, 661 progress, recent, 600 service, 599-601 service, deficit of, 599 service, growth of, 599 Postmaster-General, 656 Post-office Department, 601 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