Russian, Teuton, Frenchman, Anglo-Saxon, when you shall have returned your blood-wet swords to their scabbards, then join hands over-seas with us Americans, who are kin to all the blood you have spilled, and let us take serious counsel of one another.
But, Americans, though we may turn our face toward the morning that should come, such posturing cannot, any more than the cock's-crow, bring the morning; and until the great international compact be made, we shall be able to find safety only by adequate preparation to stand alone against the dread eventuality of war.
INDEX
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].