Prosperity, laws in, influence of, 606 material, 50-51, 352 material, necessary, 188 not created by law, 25, 214, 537, 606 of wage-workers, present, 538 present, abounding, marvelous, 302, 537 present, unbounded, 606 present, unique, 219 present, unparalleled, 296 protective tariff and, 614 requisite of, first, 550 return of, 215, 759 ruined by law, 25 source of envy, a, 24 times of, inequalities in, 540 under the tariff, 297 Protection, reciprocity and, 553 right of, for all, 477 Protective tariff and prosperity, 614 Protocol, Chinese, 601 Providence, Rhode Island, 98 Psalmist, the, 103 Public, the, and organizations, 619 Public honesty and efficiency, 488 land laws, disagreements on, land policy, wise, 681 Public lands, Alaskan, 677 extent of, 415 fences on, 637, 680 for home-makers, 636 laws on, 661 President’s power on, 559 proceeds from, 682 reclamation of arid, 562 settlement on, retarded, 680 Public life, requisites for, 288 responsibilities of, 493 Public man, duty of, to tell truth, 288 qualities of the, 488 Public opinion in the United States, 557 printer, 518, 519, 520 ranges, best uses of, 440 servant, honesty of, 499 servants, attacks on, 6 service, how to regard, 412 works for public good, 563 Publicity and honest corporations, 610 in corporation affairs, 105-106, 116, 650 remedy for trust evils, 543 Puget Sound, 427, 428, 429 Punishment and reformation, 494 Puritans, the, 365 Q Qualities, essential, of character, 493 great, need of, 509 Quebec, Supreme Court of, 666 Quincy, Illinois, 335 R Race discriminations wrong, 512 no bar to office, 512 strains in America, 450 -suicide, question of, 508 Railroad discrimination, laws on, 322 Branch, Y. M. C. A., 353 employees, safety of, 685 men as soldiers, 157 men, bravery of, 157 men, heroism of, 229 men, qualities needed by, 163 men used to risks, 157 men, Y. M. C. A. work for, 229 problems, 332 systems, great, 429 Railroading, qualities needed in, 353 Railroads, Alaskan, 678 as developers, 338 as means of travel, 338 benefits of, 430 blocking frogs of, 643 Interstate, regulation of, 555 law regarding, 310 the, and lumbering, 252 rates on, 556 safety appliances on, 685 safety on, laws for, 643 Railway, a public servant, 556 foolish interference with, 557 Ranges as invested capital, 438 grazing, old system of, 438 homesteads and the, 439 public, best uses of, 440 public, exhaustion of, 637 moving cattle on, 439 stock, of the Nation, 438 summer and winter, 439 wise use of the, 439 Rapp, General, 451 Rates, preferences in, forbidden, 280 Readiness for life work, 497 Rebates, secret, granted, 282