taking possession of terminals, right of way,
tracks, and stations, 376-377;
the alternative plan, of government appropriation of roads, and its
working out, 377-378.
_See_ Corporations.
Real estate tax, 385.
Rebates, 109, 110-113, 357.
Recall,
principle of the, 332-333;
employment of the, in suggested administrative system, 338, 340.
Referendum,
movement in favor of, in state governments, 320;
pros and cons of the, 327-328.
Reform,
course of the movement, 141-142;
variety in kinds of, 142-143;
variety found in exponents of, 143-144;
function of, according to the reformers, 144-145;
disappointment of hopes for, and reasons, 145-147;
a better understanding of meaning of, and of the function of reformers,
necessary to successful correction of abuses, 147;
causes of need for, 148-150;
wrong conceptions of, and intellectual awakening essential for, 150;
true methods for accomplishing, 152-154;
state institutional, 315 ff.;
policy of drift should not be allowed in, 315-316;
state administrative, 333 ff.;
impossibility of accomplishing, by Australian ballot, direct primary
system, and similar devices, 341-343;
direct practical value of a movement for, may be surpassed by its
indirect educational value, 408.
Reich, Emil, quoted, 1.
Religious wars,
bearing of, on national development of European states, 219.
Republicanism,
represented by Jefferson, 28-29, 30, 31;
identified with political disorder and social instability by
Federalists, 32-33;
opposition of, to Federalism as represented by Hamilton, 42-46;
alliance of Federalists and party of, 46-47;
effects of combination, 50-51;
Jefferson's Republicanism contrasted with Jackson's Democracy, 52;
views held by supporters of, on slavery question, 78.
Republican party,
causes leading to organization of the modern, 83;
its claims to being the first genuinely national party, 83-84;
rescue of, by Roosevelt, 171.
Revolutions,
question of, 210.
Rockefeller, John D., 111-112, 114, 115.
Roman Empire, the, 216.
Roosevelt, Theodore, 86, 136, 155;
as a reformer, 142, 167;
nationalization of reform by, 168-170;
policy of, compared with Hamiltonian creed, 169;
theory and practice of, contrasted with Jefferson's, 170;
the rescue of the Republican party by, 171;
vulnerability of, on the point of equal rights, 172;
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