Index.
Abandoned farms, [303].
Aggregation, disadvantages of, [197];
limit to, [196];
of forces, [57];
of industry, [191].
Aims of industry, [21].
“Anarchy,” [329].
Annual fluctuations in prices, [91], [98], [100], [104].
Arbitration in labor conflicts, [268].
Assessment, direct taxes, [353].
Association, complex, [55];
compound, [56];
methods of, [55];
simple, [55].
“Autonomy,” [328].
Balance of trade, [152].
Bank business, [148];
inspection, [151];
liabilities, [155];
loans, [153];
resources, [155].
Banking, safety of, [155].
Banks and banking, [140];
described, [141];
government, [147];
national, [144];
state, [136].
Bankruptcy, [179].
Beef prices, [100-106].
Bonanza farms, [201].
Bonds, exemption from taxation, [369];
deferred payment, [160].
Borrowers and lenders, [154].
Bounties, [207].
Boycott, the, [262].
Business security, [224].
Capital a timesaver, [40];
circulating or fixed, [40];
conservative, [44];
defined and classified, [38];
distinguished from wealth, [38];
floating, [43];
in farming, [43];
of a country, [39];
proceeds of, [279];
prudent adjustment of, [314];
“timid,” [44];
unproductive, [42].
Cattle, numbers of, [9], [83].
Character in production, [47].
Cheap living, [237].
Cheap money drives out good, [125].
Churches, taxes on, [354].
Civilization, developing, [53].
Clearing house, [149].
Clearing systems, [150].
Coinage, [118];
of the United States, [119].
Coin a country's capital, [133];
as currency, [131].
“Collectivism,” [331].
Combinations for farming, [204];
for production, advantages, [193].
Commerce overestimated, [61].
“Communism,” [330].
Compensation, actual and nominal, [236].
Complex association, [55].
Compound association, [56].
Conclusion, [373].
Conflict between wage-earners and profit-makers, [257].
Conservative influence as security for business, [224].
Consumption, coöperative, [335];
for growth, [317];
luxurious, [319];
of wealth, [307];
wasteful, [322].
Contents, table of, xi.
Control of natural forces, [28].
Coöperative consumption, [335];
industry, [272];
stores, etc., [335].
Copyright, [210].
Corn, acreage and yield, [84];
prices of, New York, [87-91];
consumption of, [84].
Cost and value, [69].
Courts of arbitration, [268].
Credit by accounts, [133];
by due bills, [134];
expanding, [167];
expansion, [158].
Credits, taxation of, [359].
Crops in United States since 1850, [10];
yield of, [83-86].
Crop-year, [78].
Currency, [130];
advantages of national bank, [146];
credit, [135].
Custom, or duty, [357].
Deferred settlement and credit expansion, [158];
in exchange, [138].
Department stores, [203].
Destructive consumption, [324].
Developing civilization, [53].
Diminishing returns, law of, [79].
Discipline in production, [47].
Distribution of wealth, [233].
Division of labor, advantages, [182];
disadvantages, [188];
economy of, [180];
limits, [184];
on farms, [186].
Duty, or custom, [357].
Economic functions of government, [337].
Economic machinery of government, [346].
Economic science, [2].
Efficiency, requisites, [53].
Enlightened vs. savage, [50].
“Equality of opportunity,” [333].
Equity in wages, [277].
Exchange, advantages, [58];
in distribution, [234];
in production, [58];
limits of, [60];
its machinery, [109].
Excise collections, [357].
Exemptions from taxes, [354].
Exertion as related to value, [69].
Expanding credit, [167].
Farm crops in United States since 1850, [10];
interests, fluctuation of, [9];
products, prices of, [78];
stock in United States, [9], [83].
Farming combinations, [204].
Farms in the United States, [9], [304];
small, for homes, [202].
Federations of labor, [267].
Final utility, [67].
Financial crisis, [169].
Floating capital, [43].
Fluctuation of prices, [87-108].
Forces in production, [27].
Franchises, [211].
Free communication, [109].
Freedom in markets, [75].
General welfare, [1].
Gold, ratio to silver, [124];
standard, [128].
Government and universal needs, [339].
Government chief incentive to production, [206].
Government, ends of, [338];
stable, [18].
Government banks, [147];
churches, [342];
Government lands, [294].
Government machinery, [346].
Government resources, [346].
Government wards, [342].
Governmental limits, [337].
Grains, consumption of, [84].
Gresham's law, [125].
Hard times, [172];
causes of, [173];
cure for, [178];
remedies, [176].
Higgling of the market, [73].
Hogs, number in United States, [9], [83];
prices of, [95-99].
Horses, number in U. S., [9], [83].
Human energy, [27].
Ideal manliness, [49].
Improved farming, effect of, [81].
Imprudent consumption, [319].
Incentive of good government, [206].
Income taxes, [360].
Indirect taxes, [356].
Individual Efficiency, [49].
Individual responsibility for use of wealth, [310].
Individualism, [328].
Inheritance taxes, [363].
Insurance, applications of, [229], [239];
governmental control of, [228];
methods of, [226];
nature of, [225].
Interest and rent distinguished, [279];
principles of, [283];
reasons for, [283];
uses of, [291];
varying rates of, [286].
Invention in farming, [36].
Labor and savings, relative importance, chart, [53].
Labor conflicts, arbitration in, [268].
Labor defined and classified, [32];
operative, executive, speculative, [35];
physical, mental, moral, [34].
Labor restrictions, [274].
Land as a force, [29].
Land rent, [293].
Land values, decrease of, [302];
sources of, [297];
variation, [300].
Legal tender, [166].
Live stock in United States, [9], [83].
Loan associations, [290].
Lockout, the, [263].
Luxury, legal restrictions upon, [321];
not easily defined, [319].
Luxurious consumption, [319].
Manliness, ideal, [49].
Market, the higgling of, [73].
Market price, [77].
Markets, [72]; freedom in, [75].
Measures, weights and, [114].
Methods of association, [55].
Monometalism, [126].
Monopoly privileges, [209].
Mortgage note, [159].
Mules, number of in United States, [9], [83].
Multiple standard, the, [129].
National bank currency, advantages of, [146].
National banks, [144].
National standards of value, [128].
“Nationalism,” [332].
Nationalization of industry, [275].
Natural forces, [28].
“Nihilism,” [329].
Normal value, [70].
Oats, acreage and yield, [9], [84];
prices of New York, [87-91];
consumption of, [84].
Obstacles to fair adjustment of wages, [259].
Over-production, [172].
Ownership, [15].
Panic, financial, [179].
Patents, [210].
Personal attainments, [45].
Population, drifting to cities, [303].
Population in United States, [9], [83]
Pork, prices of, [95-99].
Power not wealth, [6].
Preface, vii-ix.
Premiums, [206].
Price of products and rent, [299].
Price, the market, [77].
Prices of beef, [100-105];
corn, oats, wheat, [87];
of farm products, annual fluctuations, [93], [98], [100], [100], [104];
of farm products, fluctuations, [78];
of hogs and pork, [95-101];
of iron, kerosene, silver, and farm wages, [106];
of wheat, England, [93];
of wheat, New York, [87-93].
Principles of taxation, [348].
Proceeds of capital, [279].
Production defined, [21]; extended, [25];
forces in, [27].
Productive industries, [21]; labor, [32].
Promissory note, [158].
Profit sharing, [269].
Profits defined, [236], [241];
fluctuation in, [255];
in agriculture, [254];
in competition, [252];
offset by losses, [256];
tendency of, [253];
variation in, [251].
Progress in welfare, [17].
Provision for future wants, [316].
Property, public, [16].
Property rights, [15].
Protection of the weak, [343].
Protective tariff, reasons for, [213];
reasons against, [217].
Prudent consumption, [312].
Prudent use of wealth, [312].
Public property, [16].
Public responsibility, [344].
Quality, standard of, [116].
Railroads in United States, miles of, [83].
Ready transportation, [111].
Rent, interest and, [279];
propriety of, [295];
in price of products, [299].
Rents, variation, [300].
Rent values of land, [293].
Repudiation of government debts, [370].
Restrictive legislation, wages, [274].
Restrictions on luxury, [321].
Rural wealth analyzed, [12].
Savage vs. enlightened, [50].
Sheep, number in U. S., [9], [83].
Silver, ratio to gold, [124].
Single land tax, [365].
Skill, [46].
Sliding scale of wages, [271].
Small farms for homes, [202].
Socialism, [330].
Socialistic tendencies, [333].
Social organization for consumption, [328].
Sources of land values, [297].
Special incentives to production, [206].
Special taxes, [364].
Standard, the multiple, [129].
Standards of value, [117]; in United
States, [120]; fluctuation of, [121].
Standing account, [158].
State banks, [136].
Statistics, use of, [160].
Stock of farms since 1850, in U. S., [9].
Stock company, [161].
Stock exchange, [162].
Strikes, [259].
Supply and demand, [72].
Tariff, incidental tendencies, [220];
reasons against, [217];
reasons for, [215].
Tax, a single land, [365].
Taxation, direct and indirect, [351];
exemption of bonds, [369];
of credits, [359];
principles of, [348].
Taxes, assessment of, [353];
on incomes, [360];
on inheritance, [363];
on liquors, etc., [359];
peculiar forms of, [358];
special, [364].
Trades unions, [264].
Transformation in production, [24].
Transmutation in production, [24].
Transportation, cost of, [113];
in production, [22];
ready means of, [111].
Trusts, [204];
may cheapen products, [194].
Universal education, [341].
Universal needs met by government, [339].
Usury laws, [288].
Utility as related to value, [66].
Value and cost, [69].
Value, essentials of, [65];
from utility, [66];
in services, [65];
nature of, [63];
normal, [70];
of gold and silver, fluctuations of, [122];
standards of, [117];
the basis of exchange, [63].
Vicious consumption, [323].
Wage-earners in conflict with profit-makers, [257].
Wages and profits, [239].
Wages, defined, [241];
fluctuation of, [248];
obstacles to fair, [259];
of women, [247];
real and nominal, [236];
relation to wheat price, [93];
sliding scale, [271];
tend upward, [248];
under stimulated competition, [245];
under supply and demand, [244];
variation of, [243];
with cheap transportation, [250].
Wants basis of wealth, [14];
certain, [14];
individual, [16].
Waste, false notions of, [325].
Waste in rivalry, [326].
Wasteful consumption, [323].
Watering stock, [162].
Wealth, consumption of, [307];
distinguished from power, [6];
distribution, [255];
individual use of, [309];
in farming, [3];
in welfare, [1];
for welfare, [307];
material, [12];
(rural) analyzed, [12];
used by individuals, [307].
Weights and measures, [114];
system of, decimal, [115].
Welfare, elements of, [1];
mutual, [2];
Wheat, acreage and yield, [84];
crop in United States, [84], [87], [91];
Wheat prices, annual New York, [91];
in England, [93];
in New York, [87-93].
Women's wages, [247].