INDEX

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];