Chapter L: La Abra award against Mexico, 605

Labor, American Federation of, 521
and capital, common ground of, 651
situation on, 618-619
cheap, influx of, 550
in Hawaii, 566
combinations of, 26
convict, competition of, 547
cost here and abroad, 615
fair treatment for, 618
harmed by violence, 475
interference with, no, 521
laws, model, 309
legislation, 321
organized, duty of, 619
problems, 332
protected by the tariff, 546
unions, 520-521
unions, great importance of, 652

Laborers and the Civil Service, 687
contract, importation of, 546

Ladrones, Filipino, 94, 207, 571

Land, arid, fund for reclaiming, 679
commission recommended, 638
frauds, public, 661

Land Law Commission, 681
revision in the West, 680

Land laws, Alaskan, 638, 677
changes in, 681
defects in, 389
effect of, 680-681
misuse of, 388
operation of, 680-681
perversion of, 636
public disagreements on, 681
State and National, 562

Land office, general, 558, 681
receipts of, 679

Land policy, clear government, a, 563
in Hawaii, 567
United States, 441

Land, President’s power on public, 559

Land-reclamation and forests, 638
and irrigation, 682-684
conduct of, 683

Lands, arid, reclamation of, 682
arid, surveys in, 682
farming, in Alaska, 677
grazing, large holdings in, 680
Indian tribal, 594
public, Alaskan, 677
extent of, 415
fences on, 637, 680
laws on, 661
proceeds from, 682
settlement in, retarded, 680
timber, large holdings in, 680

Lansdowne, Marquis of, 263

Law, administration of, proper, 433
advantages of enforcing, 112
asks no permissions, 474
caution in executing, 443
critics of the, 431
development of, 783
enforcement of, 26
equal domination of, 481
franchise tax, 476
majesty of, vindicated, 523
might of the, 536
obedience to, 474
obedience to a right, 653
obedience to, liberty and, 528
orderly liberty under, 523
work of, in securing fairness, 335

Laws, adjustable, need for, 99
ambiguity in, 117
anti-trust, 117
corporation, in Mass., 116
existing, enforcement of, 107
fair, beneficial to all, 476
fearless administration of, 323
fixity of, undesirable, 99
for political effect, 115
impartiality of, 522
interstate commerce, needed, 611
limitations of, 99
and national character, 487
inclusive, necessary, 114
old, insufficiency of, 538
perversion of, 636
good, significance of, 487
wise, benefit of, 99

Leaders born on occasion, 232
great American, 232
great, qualities of, 493
in peace and war, 289

Learning, institutions of, 293

Lee, Robert E., General, 19, 166, 483

Legal procedure, needs in, 525

Legislation, additional, needed, 118
Army, need of new, 589
betterment by, 330
currency, good, 477
equal opportunity by, 323
limits of, 213, 323, 331
nature of good, 323
revolutionary, bad, 477
unwise, effect of, 606

Legislative action and economic evils, 101

Legislature, the, symbol of free government, 287

Leisler, Jacob, 506

Leland Stanford, Jr., University, 377

Lesson of great lives, 492

Letters, personal, 508-528
to President, 11

Levees on Mississippi River, 154

Lewis and Clark, 454
centennial of, 677
memorial to, 419

Lewis, Meriwether, 676, 677

Liberty, civil, in Philippines, 96
crimes in name of, 449
despotism and, 469
devotion to, 213
guaranteed to all, 653
in deed, not word, 469
loss of, 471
love for, 15
obedience to law and, 528
order and, 488
orderly, 17, 523
orderly, in United States, 288
orderly, under law, 523
seeming, 470
spirit of, 41
strength and, in United States, 288
through law, 433
unfitness for, 470
union and, cause of, 507

Libraries, public, 598-599
in United States, 598
work of, 598

Library, Federal, 598
movement, the public, 598
of Congress, 598
work of, 599

Library, resources of, 599

Life, aim of, duty the, 478
American distinctions in, 486
complexity of, present, 101
duties of, 493
duty the aim of, 478
essentials of a true, 508-509
of hard work, 459
old conditions of, 100-101
-saving service, the, 685
seeing, 460
work, readiness for, 497
worthiness of, 493
worth living, the, 459
worthy sort of, 459

Light-houses in Alaska, 678
in Hawaii, 678

“Liken” dues in China, 674

Lincoln, Abraham, President, 11, 15, 18, 39, 57, 61, 63, 137, 211,
230, 232, 288, 290, 329, 331, 398, 399, 445, 451, 452, 470,
483, 488, 503, 506
and Washington, 445
assassination of, 529
birthday of, 19
birth State of, 506
days of, 607
-Douglas debates, 505
friend of the people, 531
greatness of, 445
guard at tomb of, 446
honoring memory of, 445
-like phrase, a, 504
magnanimity of, 505
martyrdom of, 17
monument to, 445
nobility of, 504
pew of, 503
piety of, 504
power of, 504
principles of, 212
private secretary of, 503
speech of, a, 504
statesmanship of, 58
war rules of, 62
words of, 444-445

“Lincoln’s hirelings,” 63

Line, where drawn in America, 431

Liquor traffic and the Indians, 595

Literature, Poe in world, 456

Lives, great, lesson of, 492

Locomotive brakes, law on, 310

Locomotive Firemen, Brotherhood of, 156-167

Lodge, Henry Cabot, Senator, 79, 665

Logan, John A., General, 489

Logansport, Indiana, 187

Logic, pure, restricted application of, 776-777

London, England, 666

Long, John D., Secretary, 79

Loomis, Francis B., Assistant Secretary, 729, 730

Loose tongue, evil of a, 271

Louisiana, 112, 304, 517
rice in, 641
Purchase, 341-353, 454, 596, 676
importance of, 342
Purchase Exposition, 341, 676
Territory of, 343

Louisville, Kentucky, 508

Love and charity, 355
and work, 356
for liberty and union, 15
need of a broad, 355

Low, Seth, 29

Loyalty and patriotism, 493
that counts, the, 44

Lumbering, 426
capital invested in, 427
conservative, 417
destructive, 417
forestry and, 426
importance of, 427
in Alaska, 425
mining and, 252
progressive, 683
railroads and, the, 252

Lutheran Church, 447, 507

Luxury, vicious and frivolous, 509

Lynching, 60, 61
action on, 523
alarm at, 524
anarchy encouraged by, 527
crimes punished by, 524
discouragement of, 528
duty of denouncing, 528
evil effects of, 526
growth of, in United States, 524
horror at, 526
letter on, 523-528
real objections to, 524
speedy justice and, 525

Lynn Canal, Alaska, 665, 666