America is a home--Not an asylum--Liberty is not license--No paupers need apply--Nor any contract laborers--Skilled labor welcome, if it comes to stay--Immigrant farmers will do us good--Too much hurry in granting citizenship--Foreign faction fights must not be kept up here--Transplanted stock improves rapidly.....351
We don’t want the earth--We need more neighbors--Not more children--Non-assimilative races would weaken us--The Old World’s experience at land-grabbing--Let Canada alone till she wants us--Likewise Mexico--We have enough discordant interests now--We don’t want to pay other nations’ debts.....368
He has stopped fighting--Let us stop robbing him--The Indian will work--He has plenty of brains--Capacity for education abundantly proved--Records of the experiment at Hampton--He knows a good thing when he sees it--The beneficent effects of the Dawes bill--Even the Apaches have worked as good as white men.....385
The editor is the nation’s schoolmaster--Also the most trusty advocate of the people’s rights--He brings the people together in spirit and purpose--Always ahead of Congress and the government--Rapid improvement of the newspaper--Independence in journalism--Trial by newspaper.....399
Boys and girls who are to be men and women--The schools are behind the times--Too much fuss and too little gain--Discipline which costs too much--Heads stuffed, but hands and hearts neglected--Faults of teaching--About faculties benumbed by routine work--What has been done can be done--The country boy ahead.....410
Rights and wrongs of the great transportation corporations--What they have done for the country and what the country has done for them--Era of construction closed and an era of restriction and regulation begun--Why railroad officials become millionaires--Watering stock--A curious question which will be raised one of these days.....431
New York no longer the sole dictator in the money market--Why Western business men are now independent of metropolitan money-lenders--The increase of “reserve cities”--Banking methods to dodge the laws--How unscrupulous bank directors get rich--Why so many cashiers go to Canada and how to stop them--Noted living bankers.....455
Cities are necessary evils--But greatly to be avoided--City life is dangerous to most persons--Unnatural influences are inevitable--Hard on the purse and hard on the heart--Poverty’s last refuge--The home of the thief--The touch of nature lost--Temptations innumerable--Restraints few--No place for country boys and girls--City forms of government must change--THE DARKER SIDE--The sorrows of the city poor--Friendless and alone--Miserable homes--Health and morals menaced--All depends on one life--Chances and misfortunes--Sickness and death--The story of the Ganges paralleled--The majority are industrious--An army of heroes--Religion and rum their only comforts--Child work and child ruin--Benevolence wearied and despairing.....481