We Americans believe that our people, in the long run, will decide right upon any question to which they have given due thought and consideration. So in their hands we may safely leave the whole question of Socialism and government ownership or operation. All we ask is, that they be given due knowledge and instruction. Furthermore, if Socialism be true, it should not fear open and complete examination. If the truth is the truth, it must prevail in the end. Therefore the surreptitious and secret attempt to foist Socialism upon an unsuspecting people savors much of the lack of sincerity and of belief in its real truth on the part of its own advocates. At least they should stop making their appeal mainly to the uninstructed foreign-born and to the apostles of half-baked learning, and lay their case before the hard-headed laborer, the business and the professional man. INDEX Acworth, W.M., quoted, 64-66. Ambition, 15-16. American Federation of Labor, 77. American Revolution, 5. Australia, 46. Beer, George, Louis, quoted, 4. Belgium, Constitution of, quoted, 28-29. _Boston Commercial_, quoted, 63. Brooks, Phillips, 7. Cartwright, Peter, 7. Christ, individualistic teachings of, 47-48. Civil Service, 67-68. Civil War (American), 6. Common Law Rights, 31-32. Co-operation, 74-79. _Droit Administratif_, 32. Ely, Richard T., quoted 16-17, 44-45. Fabian Society, 8. French Revolution, 5. Germany, theory of government in, 25-26; labor in 51-52; failure of Socialism, 59 _et seq_.; railroads in, 60-66. Gompers, Samuel, 77-78. Hill, David J., quoted, 14-15. Hillquit, Morris, 38, 43. Hoover, Herbert, quoted, 82-83. Huguenots, 6. Human Nature, definition, 57-60. Ibsen, Henrik, 8. Italy, Constitution of, quoted, 27. Jameson, J.P., 7. Jefferson, Thomas, 10, 36-37. Jenks, Edward, 17. Jevons, W.S., quoted, 64 (note). Jewish Scriptures, and Socialism, 49. _Journal of Commerce_, quoted, 40-42, 75-76. Kahn, Otto H., quoted, 70-71, 83-84. Louis XIV., 6. Moriscos, 6. Mühlon, W., quoted, 37 (note). National City Bank (New York), 64. Netherlands, Constitution of, quoted, 27. Norway, Constitution of, quoted, 28. Object of Government, 19-20. Philip III (of Spain), 6. Plymouth Colony, 6, 55-57. Postal Service, 72-73. Press, freedom of, 27-30. Profit-sharing, 78-79. Railroads, 60-71, 81-82. Rousseau, 21. Seligman, E.R.A., 3. Shaw, G. Bernard, 8. Socialism, definition of, 14. Sweden, Constitution of, quoted, 28. Switzerland, Constitution of, quoted, 28. _Times_ (London), quoted, 81-82. United States, Constitution of, quoted, 30. Wells, H.G., 8. Whitefield, George, 7. William, ex-Emperor, 26. Wilson, J. Dover, quoted, 50-51. Wilson, Woodrow, 10, 69. Woolman, John, 6. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Socialism and American ideals by William Starr Myers