Abbott, Dr. Lyman, opinions of war, 52-53.
AËrial bomb: few advantages, many disadvantages of, 205-11.
AËrial Warfare, Chapter VIII, 203.
AËronautical Society, first annual banquet of, 16.
AËroplane, served to stimulate development of balloon, 204;
imperfections of first, 204;
advantages over Zeppelin, 214;
less expensive than Zeppelin, 214;
French and German, ordered by U. S., 216-17;
foreign countries possessing, 218-19;
indispensable for location of masked batteries, 219.
Air-craft, chief use of, 213;
the eyes of both army and navy, 219;
a necessity in present-day warfare, 219-20;
lack of, in America, 220-21.
Alabama, the, 193.
Alexander the Great, 90.
Alva, Duke of, undertook to kill entire population of Netherlands, 239.
American and British manufacturing works, 76.
Arbitration, international, 32, 33, 34, 36, 37, 38, 39, 42, 46, 306.
Armaments, a safeguard against war, 6, 7, 8, 9.
a small burden in proportion to burden of luxuries, 226;
benefits of, 228;
added employment of labor in construction of, decreases individual taxation, 231.
Armor-plate, introduction of, 181;
increase in thickness of, 184;
inferior to the gun, 184;
sufficiency of, dependent upon insufficiency of gun to which it is opposed, 186;
improvements in, 189.
Army, our, strength of, in numbers, 100, 117, 118;
lack of artillery and training in, 102;
ignorance of people as to proper equipment of, 103, 115;
lack of system in, 120;
shortage of officers of, 122, 123;
personnel of our regular, 126;
total enlisted strength of, 126, 127;
mobile strength of, 127;
injustice done officers of, 146;
a standing, one of the strongest fortifications, 294.
Attila, 79.
Automatic magazine-rifle, its effectiveness over old methods of warfare, 86, 87.
Balaklava, the noble Six Hundred at, 102.

Balloon, developed with aËroplane, 204;
modern, 205;
dirigible, has one advantage over aËroplane, 210.
Battle-cruiser, modern, absence of any in U. S., 188;
adopted by foreign countries, 188.
Beatty, Admiral, reports on North Sea fight, 195.
Belgian women, abject condition of, 244, 245.
Bernhardi, extracts from his "How Germany Makes War," 89.
Bessemer steel process introduced by Carnegie, 252.
Bethlehem Steel Company, manufacture of guns and armor-plate, 9, 10, 76.
Billings, Josh, on ignorance, 23.
Bismarck, 163.
Blatchford, Robert, writer for The Daily Mail, quoted, 164-67;
mentioned, 167.
Bliss, E. W., Torpedo Works, 77.
Bloch, M. de, author of "The Future of War," against possibility of war, 2;
discussed, 93, 95.
Bluecher, the, 187.
Bombshells, 185;
dropped from airship not very effective, 209.
"Britannia Rules the Waves," 97.
Buckner, Colonel E. G., vice-president of du Pont Powder Company, 257.
Buffington, General A. R., 200, 201.
CÆsar, massacres by, 40;
mentioned, 90, 162.
Can Law Be Substituted for War? Chapter II, 22.
Canal, Panama, 157, 173.
Canning, George, attempts to join England in her open-door policy, 58.
Cannon designed by Mr. Maxim to illustrate advantages of projectiles of great size, 198;
description of, 198, 199.
Carlyle, quotations from, 49.
Carnegie, Andrew, 68, 290;
his ideas on military defenselessness, 69;
quotation from, 70-71;
his views discussed, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 78, 80;
greatest American armorer, 252.
Chaffee, Lieut.-Gen. Adna R., quotation from, 68.
Charity, evils of, 283, 284, 285, 289;
J. Ellis Barker on, 286;
cat story illustrating evils of mistaken, 286-88;
thrives in time of peace, forgotten in times of war, 291.
Chittenden, Hiram M., his arraignment of war, 267-68.
Christian Herald, The, 46.
Colt Patent Firearms, 76.
Congress, dependent upon will of people, 132-33;
has power to dominate Army and Navy, 141;
not qualified to pass judgment on Army and Navy, 144;
neglects to take necessary precautions against war,145;
decides strength of Navy,164;
and the General Board, 168.
Conscription, values of, 136;
enforced in Germany, 136.

Cradock and von Spee, naval battle between, 195.
Cramb, Professor J. A., quotation from, 41.
Cramp Shipbuilding Works, 77.
Cromwell, 90, 163.
Crozier, General William, statement of, 121-22.
Cyrus the Great, 280.
Dangerous Criminal Class, A? Chapter XI, 247.
Dangerous Preachments, Chapter I, 1.
De Bange obturator, an American invention, 217.
Dirigibles, foreign countries possessing, 218-19.
Disarmament, repeatedly a failure, 12, 13.
Diseases, germs of, sown by old pioneers, 278.
Dreadnought, evolved by England, 158;
superiority of, recognized by Germany, France, Japan, 158;
not appreciated by American Congress, 158;
cost of, 225.
Du Pont Company, The, 9, 10, 77.
Du Pont, Francis G., eliminated danger in manufacture of gun-cotton, 257, 258.
Economic Club of Boston, 18.
Ego-Fanatic Good Intentions and Their Relation to National Defense, Chapter X, 235.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, his opinion about war, 271-72.
Emery, Professor C., quotation from his "Some Economic Aspects of War," 226.
European War, predicted, 13, 14, 15, 16.
Falkland Islands, running fight off, 195.
Fiske, Admiral, quoted, 170.
Formative strife, man as a master, 27, 28, 29.
Franklin, Benjamin, 135-36.
Frederick the Great, 79, 90.
French batteries outrange German, 103.
French Government, maker of its own gunpowder, 262.
Fuel-ships, 170, 171.
"Future of War, The," by M. de Bloch, an argument against possibility of war, 2.
Gardner, Congressman, 128, 161, 169, 216.
Garrison, Secretary of War, interviewed, 100, 101.
Gathmann gun, 208.
General Board of Navy, organized, 160;
headed by General Dewey, 160, 163, 164.
and Congress, 168;
report of, 169.
Germany, government of, 135;
militarism of, 139;
progress in industrial arts and sciences, 139;
superiority of, intellectually, 140;
fight of, with England at North Sea, 195;
standing army of, 225.
Goethals, Colonel, character of, 253-54.
Good and Evil of Peace and of War, The, Chapter XII, 265.
Grant, 90.
Great Powers, 101, 108.

Gun, increase in size and strength, 184;
dependence of, upon armored protection, 187;
high-power naval, most powerful dynamic instrument, 189.
Gunpowder, smokeless, invention and development of, 181;
four times as powerful as black powder, 182.
Guns, field, necessity for, 103, 104;
helplessness of infantry without, 107;
superiority over armor-plate, 196.
Haeckel, Ernst, 22.
Hague Congresses, 35.
Haldane, Lord, 128, 164.
Hannibal, 90, 162.
Hannibal's Balearic slingers, 85.
Hanno, 162.
Herodotus, quoted, 281.
Herr Krupp, 252.
Holland submarine boats, 77.
Holy Alliance, formed 1815, 56;
purpose of, 56, 57;
actions of, 57.
Howitzers, German use of, 103;
governmental need of, 201-2;
Germans reported makers of huge, 199.
Huns and Vandals of present day, 31.
Indiana, the, 156.
Indulgence, statistics of U. S., 225-26.
International Tribunal, 39.
Inventions:
gun-cotton, 257;
multi-perforated grain, 257, 258;
process for successful reworking of smokeless powder, 259;
army rifle, 259;
smokeless rifle-powder, 259;
value to government, 259-60.
breech-loading guns, steam turbine, submarine torpedo boat, etc., 261.
Isolation, fatal, of U. S., 120.
James, William, attitude toward war, 300;
discussed, 301.
Japan, strength increasing, 100.
Japanese, a far-seeing people, 62, 63;
possessors of two powerful
battle-cruisers, 188.
Jefferson, Charles Edward, advocates peace, 19, 20, 247.
JÉna, battleship, 263.
Jordan Dr. David Starr, believes in disarmament, 7;
says war materials should be made by government, 7, 9;
opposes war, 11;
quotations from his "War and Waste," 1, 17, 18, 247;
discussed, 93, 95, 240, 301;
paid from Carnegie Peace Foundation, 252.
Journal of the Royal United Service Institution, drawings of Mr. Maxim published in, 199.
Kaiser Wilhelm II, quoted, 141.
Kane, Admiral, quoted, 116.
Kearsarge, the, 193.
Kitchener, Lord, Muldoon of new English army, 293.
Knight, Admiral Austin M., quoted, 150-54, 155, 171, 173-74.
Lake Submarine Torpedo Boat Works, 77.

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 over Merrimac, 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 York Times, 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, 239-40;
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;
an enormous target, 211;
more expensive than aËroplane, 213;
use as troop-ship yet to be proven, 214;
advantages over aËroplane, 215;
important use in detection of submarines, 215;
not one in U. S., 218.