specialist.
_See_ "Boss."

Politics,
separation of the business man from, 117;
specialized organization of, 118-121.

Popular sovereignty,
Stephen A. Douglas's theory of, 84-86;
criticism of democracy defined as, 176-178;
principle of, as represented by French Revolutionaries, 223-224;
principle of national sovereignty not to be confused with, 265-266;
the essential condition of democracy, 269-270;
definition of the phrase, 279 ff.;
is equivalent for Americans to the phrase "national Sovereignty," 280;
misconceptions of, notably Douglas's error, 281.

Porto Rico,
relations between United States and, 308.

Poverty,
as a social danger in a democratic state, 205.

Prisons,
improvement of, as a function of the state, 345.

Profits of corporations,
disposal of question of excessive, 370.

Property,
preservation of institution of private, 209.

Protection,
Whig policy of, and its defeat, 68;
Bismarck's policy of, 250.

Public ownership, 366-367;
municipal, 372-375;
the portion of railroad property properly subject to, 376-377;
another plan of, regarding railroads, 377-378.

Public Service Commissions of New York State, 360-361;
principal objection to, 368.

Public service corporations holding municipal franchises,
should be subject to cities only, 349;
municipal policy toward, 372-373.

Pure Food Bill,
class discrimination in, 191.

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Railroads,
conditions of growth of American, 109;
the granting of rebates by, 110-111;
public ownership of, advocated by W.J. Bryan, 158;
state ownership of, in Prussia, 250;
constructive organization of, in United States, 351 ff.;
domination of, in politics of states, 352-353;
undesirability of state supervision of, and danger to roads themselves,
353-354;
ignorant and unwise legislation by states concerning, 354-355;
substitution of control of central government for state control, 356-357;
policy to be followed by central government toward 357 ff.;
law should be passed providing for agreements between roads, and
mergers, 364-305;
freedom should be left to, to make rates and schedules, and develop
their traffic, 365-366;
public ownership of, 366;
regulation of, by Federal commissions a doubtful step, 360-363, 368;
process of combination among, and results, 375-376;
value of monopoly possessed by, could be secured to the community by
Federal government