The Promise of American Life

by Herbert David Croly

• Vienna, Treaty of, [225].
• Virtue,
  • the principle of democracy, [454].
• Voting,
  • for state representatives, [329];
  • American systems of, [341]-[343].

W

• Wage-earners,
  • increasing standard of living for, [206];
  • weakness of socialistic programme for, [210]-[211].
  • See [Labor unions].
• War of 1812 and its lessons, [53]-[55].
• Wars,
  • justifiability of, [255]-[256];
  • likelihood of more, before establishment of a stable European
  • situation, [257].
• Washington,
  • foreign policy contained in Farewell Address of, [290].
• Wealth,
  • necessity of opportunity for acquiring, [203];
  • improvement in the distribution of, [209]-[210];
  • distribution of, in France, [244]-[245];
  • equalization of distribution of, by graduated inheritance tax, [381]-[385].
• Webster, Daniel, [52], [427];
  • reason for failure of ideas of, [69]-[70];
  • representative of behavior of public opinion as regarded slavery question during the Middle Period, [75]-[77].
• Wells, H.G., quoted, [4].
• Whigs,
  • standards represented by, against Jacksonian or Western Democracy, [65]-[67];
  • wherein they improved on the Federalists, [67];
  • policy of internal improvements, [66];
  • its failure, [67]-[68];
  • failure regarding re-chartering of National Bank,[68];
  • and regarding policy of protection, [68];
  • complete failure in fight against Federal executive, [68]-[69];
  • reason for failures, [69]-[70];
  • attitude of, toward slavery, [73]-[74].
• Workingmen,
  • party composed of, in Germany, [251].