La Liberté, battleship,263.Language of the Big Guns, Chapter VII,181.Law, substitution of, for War,31-32;inadequacy of,34;must be backed by force,36.Lea, General Homer, quotations from,33,63,64,68,228-29.Lee,90.Lincoln, Abraham,163.Lowell, James Russell, quotation from his poem,44,45.Machinery, modern, labor-saving,81,82,83;a strong factor in a nation's preparedness for war,87;expense of,87,96;a means of shortening length of war,88;assists the soldier in battle,90;saves human life,92.Mahan, Admiral,46;quoted,67.Manufactories of munitions of war, unprotected,77,78.Marat, a pacific moralist,238.Marius, military genius of,162.Marlborough,90.Marlin Firearms Works,76."Marseillaise,"97.Martel, Charles,90,162.Massachusetts, the,156.Maxim, Hudson, his proposition of throwing large charges of explosives from big guns criticised,200;inventor of multi-perforated grain,257,258.Maximite, first trial of,201;first explosive successfully fired through armor-plate,201.Medici, Catherine de',238.Mendeléeff, told how to colloid gun-cotton,257.Merrimac, the,181,184,185,192,193.Meyer, G. von L., ex-Secretary of Navy,135,143,175;quoted,176-80.Militia, lack of batteries in,119;lack of officers in,120;actual strength of,127.Modern Methods and Machinery of War, Chapter IV,68.Monitor, Ericsson's,158,181,192,193;victory overMerrimac,184,185;inferior to modern battleships,193;developed into super-dreadnought by Europeans,217;builders of, inspired by spirit of patriotism,255;tardy acceptance of, by government,256.Monroe Doctrine, proclaimed,56;actual formulator of, John Quincy Adams,58;inconsistencies of,60,62;General Lea on,63-4;England's attitude toward,65;an Anglo-American compact,66.Monroe, President, declaration of,58-9.Montesquieu, quoted,281.Mukden, battle of,249.Müller, Max,41.Multi-perforated grain, invented by Mr. Maxim,198.Murray Hill Hotel, explosion in front of,209-10.Napoleon,40,45,57,79,89,118,162,163;his "Que messieurs les assassins commencent,"54.
Navy, U. S., Admiral Knight on the,150-54;necessity for superiority in,155;gradually slipping back,158;inadequate,99,100;constituents for a proper,170,171.waste of money appropriated for,175.Needs of Our Army, The, Chapter V,113.Needs of Our Navy, The, Chapter VI,141.New York Arsenal,77.New YorkTimes, quoted,144-45.O'Neil, Admiral Charles,200.Oregon, the,156.Our Armaments Not a Burden, Chapter IX,222.Our Inconsistent Monroe Doctrine, Chapter III,56.Parker, Professor G. H., quoted,290.Patent Office, inventions received by, increasing,260.Peace, conference,18;praters, advocates, and prophets of,1,2,4,5,6,7,108,247;falseness of position of pacifiers toward,109,110,235,236,237,241,242,248,249,250,253,256,257,266;Bible and,49,50;sophists,109,262,267,274,275;tends more to degeneracy and national decay than war,280.Peter the Great, architect of Russia,163.Picatinny Arsenal,76.Plato, on war,265.Pratt and Whitney Works,76.Projectiles, power and weight of,183;improvements in,188-89;distance most efficient protection from,192;larger ones lose less velocity than smaller,195-96.Queen Elizabeth, the, latest and most powerful type of dreadnought,175.Remington Small Arms Works,76.Report of the Chief of Ordnance, 1914,125.Report of the Chief of Staff,128.Roberts, Lord,128,129.Robespierre, a noted pacifist,238.Roosevelt, Theodore, quotations from,3,5,43;caliber of,143.Royal United Service Institution of Great Britain,197.Ruskin, John, on war,269-71.Russia, Czar of,96.Russian "Monroe Doctrine,"57.Russo-Japanese War, predicted,13.Salisbury, Lord, quoted,235.Santiago, battle of,195.Savage Arms Works,76.Scientific American, quoted,121;124-25;mentioned,159.Scriptures, quotations from,49,50,51,52.Secretary of Army and Secretary of Navy,141,142;should not be treated politically,142.Secretary of War,141.Sheridan,90.
Sherman, his famous declaration about war,244.Smith and Wesson Revolver Works,76.Smokeless cannon-powder, invented by Mr. Maxim,197-98.Smokeless multi-perforated powder, adopted by U. S. Government,218.Socialists take part in war,97.South American republics and the United States,60,61.Sparta, ancient, power of government in,136.Speed, of supreme importance in naval engagements,196-97.Spencer, Herbert, philosopher,19,23,30,229,245.Spottsylvania Court House, battle of,146.Stead, William T., recommends that British Parliament build two battleships to every one built by Germany,18.Steel Trust,10.Stockton, Mr. Richard, Jr., quoted,139,227;his book on "Peace Insurance," quotations from,295-99.Strong, Dr., President of American Institute of Social Service,54,299.Sullivan, John L., fighter,19,172.Sumner, William Graham, quotation from,56.Swiss system of military training,134,137,138,291.Talmage, Rev. T. de Witt,47.Tennyson,31.Torquemada,238.Tupper, Sir Charles,65.Twain, Mark,24.Union Metallic Cartridge Works,76.United States Army, powder works of,76.United States Arsenal,76.United States Naval Torpedo Station,77.United States Steel Corporation,9.United States, a world-power,149,157.Upton, General Emory, prophetic speech of,116.Vesuvius, the,209.Victory, naval, dependent upon weight of broadsides,104;land, upon weight of gun-fire,104.Vieille, producer of gun-cotton,257."Wacht am Rhein,"97.War, ex-President Taft's views on,16;China's,16;Italian, with Tripoli,16;Balkan,16;Mexican,17;European,17,103,232,233;Dr. Jordan's views on,17-18;when justifiable,42,43,45;and Christianity,46-55;Civil,85,86,87,90,302,305;Boer,103;Spanish,158,221;as an art,172;of 1812,221;advantages of,270,271,272,273;survival of fittest in,274;mixer of races,274;remedy for?306-308.War materials, manufacture of, by government and private individuals,9,10,251,252;
War materials, manufacture of, by government and private individuals,
9
,
10
,
251
,
252
;
manufacturers of, actuated by honorable principles,255.
Washington, George, opinion of war,
84
,
85
.
Winchester Repeating Arms and Cartridge Works,
76
.
Woman's Peace Party, resolutions of,
239
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40
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mistaken ideas of,241,242;
bravery of, if war should come,242,243,244;
inconsistency of,244.
Wood, General Leonard,
118
,
134
.
letter from,113-15;
quotation from,129,130,131,132.
Wright Brothers, encouraged abroad,
216
;
Wright Brothers, mentioned,
219
.
Wyndeer, Sir William,
235
.
Zalinski pneumatic gun,
200
.
Zeppelin, subject of guess-work,
204
;
speed of,205;
little accuracy in bomb-dropping from,211;