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Preparedness, 145

Press censorship, 210

Product ownership, 96

Profiteering, 151

Property, Indian ideas of, 30 " ownership, security of, 107 " rights, and civilization, 113 " rights of, 103 " safeguards to, 108

Public opinion, control of, 98

Resources of the United States, 179

Revolution in Europe, 246

Russia, Allied attack on, 245 " world position of, 231

Slave Coast, 39 " power, defeat of, 61 " trade, America's part in, 44 " " beginnings of, 39 " " conditions of, 43 " " development of, 42

Slavery, and expansion, 60 " beginnings of, 39 " in the United States, 45

Slaves, early demand for, 41

Southwest, conquest of, 51, 57

Sovereignty, source of, 11

Spanish War, 65

Standard Oil Co., 134

Surplus, disposal of, 123 " pressure of, 121

Teutonic peoples, 26

Texas, annexation of, 52

Timber reserves, 180

Transportation facilities, 183

Undeveloped countries, 124

United States, capital of, 181 " " financial power of, 154 " " past isolation, 192 " " position of, 221 " " products of, 184 " " resources of, 179 " " shipping, 188 " " wealth and income, 189 " " world attitude to, 263 " " world power of, 177

Wealth and income, 189 " of the United States, 89 " ownership, 90

Western Hemisphere, and the United States, 200

World conquest, 218

Workers' business, 257

Yellow peril, 232

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