My Story (35 page)

Johnson, Will, brother of J.,
3
.

Johnstown, Pa.,
28
; flood and period of readjustment,
34–42
; responsibility for disaster,
43–44
.

Jones, Bill,
36–37
.

Jones, Samuel M.,
203
;
206
;
207
.

Judiciary, Privilege's power over,
xxxviii
.

K
IEFER
, Daniel,
299
;
307
;
310
.

Knappen, Judge,
284
.

Kohl, Councilman,
214
;
215
.

Kohler, Fred,
123
;
181–184
;
218
;
219
.

L
ABOR
Unions, J. favors,
xxii
; relation of to Cleveland street railway strike,
280–282
.

La Follette, Robert M.,
41
.

Lamb, John E.,
72
.

Land Monopoly, the root of Privilege,
xvii
;
xxxvi
;
33
.

Land Values
,
298
.

Lapp, Charles W.,
172
;
269
.

Lavell, Pat,
37
.

Lawson, Fenton,
307
.

Leader
, Cleveland,
114
;
271
;
272
; quoted,
313
.

Leslie, Daniel E.,
172
;
180
;
269
.

Leubuscher, Frederic C.,
299
.

Lewis, August,
299
.

Lincoln, Abraham,
5
.

Lindsey, Ben B.,
1
.

Little Con,
86
;
116
;
159
;
190
. (See Concon.)

Loftin (Johnson), Helen, mother of J.,
1
; J's estimate of,
3
; gives J. his early instruction,
6
.

Lorain, Ohio, J. builds mill at,
90
.

Low Fare Company,
242
;
246
;
247
;
248
;
262
;
263
;
266
.

M
CA
D
OO
, William Gibbs,
4
.

McCabe, William,
52
.

McClure, A. K., his book,
Our Presidents and How We Make Them
, quoted,
73
.

McGlynn, Father,
52
.

McGuire, Judge,
63
.

McKinley Act,
71
;
74
.

Madigan, J. P.,
172
;
216
.

Manhattan Single Tax Club,
299
.

May Company,
120
.

Merit System,
xxviii
.

Monopolies, J. discusses,
xxxv–xxxvii
. (See also Privilege.)

Morrell, D. J.,
30–31
.

Moxham, Arthur J.,
29
;
30
;
31
; elected dictator of Johnstown, Pa.,
35
;
37
;
38
;
42
;
49
;
50
.

Municipal Association, The,
171
.

Municipal Home Rule,
xvi
;
147
; “the most pressing of all civic problems,”
148
;
187
.

Municipal Ownership,
xvi
; advantages of,
26–27
; city's only safeguard,
94
;
96
; first transportation line under,
99
; practical demonstration of benefits,
100
; J's efforts to establish city lighting plant,
191–194
; evils it would abolish,
211–212
; growing sentiment favorable to,
292
.

Municipal Traction Company,
xxi
;
224
;
234
;
239
;
246
;
250
;
251
;
280
;
282
;
283
. (See Threefer.)

N
AU
, Carl H.,
269
.

Neal, Lawrence T.,
70
;
72
.

Neutral Street Railway,
279
.

Nichols Law,
146
.

Nickel Plate Road,
136
;
137
.

Nisi Prius Club,
311–312
.

O
'CONNOR
, T. P.,
298
.

O'Day, John,
214
.

P
AUL
, John,
298
; quoted,
298
;
300
;
301
.

Pennsylvania Railroad Company,
43
;
113
;
123
.

Pilcher, Joe,
1
.

Pingree, Hazen S.,
91
;
92
;
93
;
94
;
95–97
;
108
.

Plain Dealer
, Cleveland,
61
;
113
; quoted,
146
; quoted,
188
; quoted,
193
; quoted,
255–256
; quoted,
305
.

Pomerene, Atlee,
xvi
.

Porter, Albert G.,
13
.

Post, Louis F.,
52
; quoted,
53
; editorial writer on Cleveland
Recorder
,
54
; establishes
The Public
,
54
;
299
; account of J's trip to Fels Fund Commission meeting in New York,
306–310
.

Press
, Cleveland,
114
; editorial from,
228–229
; statement of concerning guarantee,
230–232
; editorial from,
232–233
;
259
.

Press Post
, Columbus,
156
.

Private Ownership of Public Utilities, evils of,
25–26
.

Privilege, J's address on,
xiii
; land monopoly root of,
xvii
; J. defines,
xxxv
; far-reaching effects of,
xxxvi
; power over judiciary,
xxxviii
; cure to be effected through economic change,
xxxviii–xxxix
; uses people's savings to oppress them,
15
; as typified by patent laws,
29
; other types of,
33
; responsible for Johnstown flood,
44
;
60
; its way of reasoning,
76
;
80
;
86
; poverty the result of,
89
;
90
; its fight against Pingree,
91
; its methods,
93–94
;
107
;
108
; Chamber of Commerce sides with,
113
; ignores party lines,
114
;
115
;
118
; at the root of corrupt government,
125
;
143
;
147
; control of taxing machinery greatest power of,
149
;
150
; remedy for,
151–155
;
158
;
159
;
163
;
164
;
169
;
170
;
171
;
177
;
188
;
195
;
203
;
206
; seeks to accomplish ends through councils,
212
; influences judiciary and secures services of best lawyers,
247
; its power to delay progress,
250
; its disregard for public interests,
260
;
263
; perpetuates itself with savings banks deposits,
267
;
274
;
282
;
288
;
293
;
301
; George doctrine only way to end,
302
.

Progress and Poverty
,
49
;
50
.

Protection,
60
; denounced,
71
;
77–81
.

Protection or Free Trade
,
9
; J. distributes free copies of,
52
; reprinted as quotations in
Congressional Record
,
68–69
;
70
;
73
.

Public Ownership,
xxxix
; of roadbeds solution of railroad problem,
151–153
. (See, also, Municipal Ownership.)

R
ECALL
,
xvi
;
119
.

Recorder
, Cleveland, J. backs,
54
.

Reed, Thomas B., quoted,
63–64
; quoted,
74
.

Referendum,
xvi
;
119
;
199
; election,
282
; election,
288
; election,
290
.

Reilly, John,
43
.

Rickey, H. N.,
232
.

Roosevelt, Theodore,
xvii
;
267
;
268
;
274
.

Root, Elihu,
98
; quoted,
99
.

Russell, L. A.,
49
;
50
.

S
ANDERS
, Judge,
247
.

Schmidt, Herman,
287
;
288
.

Schmidt Law,
278
;
279
.

Scripps, E. W.,
231
;
232
;
233
.

Scripps Publishing Company,
230
;
231
.

Shearman, Thomas G.,
54
;
307
.

Sheets, Attorney-General,
140
;
141
;
146
;
163
;
192
;
194
.

Short Ballot,
xvi
.

Simms, Elias,
17
;
18
;
19
;
20
;
22
;
23
;
227
.

Simpson, Jerry,
63
;
64
;
68
.

Single Tax,
55
; bill in Congress,
63
; “the only just tax,”
66–67
; what it is and what it would do,
154–155
; J's influence on movement in England,
299
; “Bucklin Bill,”
307
. (See, also, George, Henry; Land Monopoly; Taxation of land values; titles of books by George.)

“Slip-Slide,” J's invention described by F. C. Howe,
xxviii–xxxii
.

Socialism,
151
; Hanna on,
202–203
.

Social Problems
,
49
.

Somers, W. A., devises unit system of taxation,
128
;
292
.

Sontheimer, Solomon,
172
.

South Brooklyn, Ohio,
216–218
.

South Fork Hunting and Fishing Club,
43
.

Special Privilege. (See Privilege.)

Springborn, William J.,
121
;
172
;
179–180
;
193
;
227–228
;
269
.

Stage, Charles W.,
224
;
311
.

Standard Oil Company,
154
;
195
;
213
;
214
;
215
;
216
.

Steel Rail Pool,
76–78
.

Steffens, J. Lincoln, estimate of J.,
xx
;
299
.

Stockwell, John N., quoted,
xiv
;
311
.

Stone, William J.,
68
.

Summers, A. N.,
157
;
158
.

T
AFT
, William H.,
267
;
268
.

Tammany Hall,
57
.

Tariff,
33
;
71
;
73–75
;
76–81
.

Taussig, J. E.,
134
;
135
.

Taxation of land values, discussion of in District of Columbia,
65–67
. (See, also, Single Tax.)

Tax School,
125–131
.

Tayler Grant,
290
;
291
.

Tayler, Robert W.,
237
;
284
; address to city council quoted,
285–286
;
288
;
289
.

Threefer,
225
;
241
;
250
;
262
;
280
.

Tracey, Representative,
63
.

Trevelyan, Charles,
298
.

Tuckerman, Dr.,
115
.

Tyler, James,
303
;
307
.

U
NION
Club,
171
;
266
.

United States Steel Company,
90
.

U'Ren, W. S.,
307
.

V
ILAS
, William F.,
70
;
72
.

Vorhees,
104
;
105
.

W
ADSWORTH
, James,
65
.

Warner, John DeWitt,
63
;
299
.

Warrington, John W.,
237
;
238
;
247
.

Washington, D. C. (See District of Columbia.)

Washington, Joseph E.,
65
;
68
.

Watterson, Henry,
70
;
72
.

Wedgewood, Josiah,
298
.

Wells, Representative,
197
;
198
.

Westenhaver, D. C.,
247
.

White, John G.,
285
;
287
.

Whitlock, Brand,
207
.

Whitney, William C., quoted,
73
.

Widener-Elkins Syndicate,
196
.

Wiebenson, Edward,
224
.

Williams, Charles D.,
xxiii
.

Wilson Bill,
73
;
74
;
75
;
78
.

Wilson, Richard T.,
91
;
92
;
93
;
98
; quoted,
106
;
108
.

Wilson, William L.,
72
.

Witt, Peter,
75
;
84–86
;
115
;
126
;
181
;
203
;
218
;
256
;
257
;
258
;
259
;
273
;
274
;
307
.