Root, Elihu, VI., reports on the Philippines, 303, 306; address of, mentioned, 358
Roots, Logan H., IV., 231
Rosen, Baron, VI., 440
Rousseau, Jean Jacques, IV., 333
Routt, IV., spoken of for a Cabinet position, 83
Rowse, E. S., II., 49
Rublee, Horace, I., to, 31, 161 n.; to, 163
Ruffianism in the South, III., 82, 86, 87; in Missouri, 102
Runyon, ex-Chancellor, V., mission to Germany, 133
Rush (Dr.), Benjamin, V., 159
Russell, Governor, V., 84
Russell, Lord John, I., 201
Russia, V., extradition treaty with, 131-133; peace proclamation of Czar of, 514; VI., persecution of the Jews by, 303
Russia and Japan, VI., intervention of United States, 431, 432, 435, 440
Russia, Czar of, VI., peace message of, 4, 49, 57, 59, 437; Peace-and-Disarmament Conference, 23, 440, 441; suppresses the constitutional rights and liberties of Finland, 50
Russian freedom, New York Society of the Friends of, VI., 427
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Sackville, Lord, V., caught by campaign trick, 15 n.; Bayard promises full text of, to Schurz, 17
St. Louis Convention, III., 258
St. Thomas, V., 4; purchase of, 193
Salisbury and the Venezuelan question, V., 252, 254, 256, 367; VI., on the U. S. as a factor in Asiatic affairs, 19, 21
Salomon, General, IV., removal of, 426, 431, 434, 449, 451
Samoa, V., discussed by Schurz, Count Arco, Bayard, Sherman, 1-11; Bayard's presentation of case in protocol, 15; despatch states case succinctly, 16
Sanderson, J. P., I., to, 170
San Domingo, I., United States protests against Spain's annexation of, 193; Schurz on treaty of, 483; Grant and Schurz differ on treaty of, 509, 510; II., commission sent to, 177; negotiations, 178; United States vessels stationed on the coast of 177 n., 186, 271; pending treaty with, 189; treaty with, not favored by Senate, 255; Grant pledges himself to further the annexation of, 402, 418; III., treaty with, 51, 52, 53, 178; annexation of, 79; V., refused by United States, 4; treaty of, defeated in Senate, 93; Imperialists would make annexation of, a necessity, 131, 197, 483; VI., annexation of, 11, 12, 13; joining a confederacy of the Antilles, 34, 182; United States urged to annex, 108; rejected, 218; Grant's policy opposed by Sumner, 281, 282
San Domingo, Annexation of, II., 72; dissatisfaction with Baez, 72; withdrawal of United States naval protection voted down, 73; magnitude of the question, 75; annexation of tropics means political incorporation, 77; influence of the tropics historically, 78, 83, 106; influences of the temperate zone, 81; California not subject to rule applying to tropics, 84; degeneracy of Anglo-Saxons settling in the West Indies 86; climatic influence in Australia, 87; in the United States, 88; Spain's unsuccessful experiment, 92; assimilation in United States, upward; in the tropics, downward, 94; immigrants keep within their native isotherms, 95; annexation of Canada, 96; government of West Indies, etc., if annexed, 98; “manifest destiny,” 98, 115; inducements in annexation, 101; the lesson of England and India, 102; precarious nature of wealth gained in the tropics, 102, 107; “outposts” the weakest points of a country, 108; disregard of Monroe doctrine by foreign Powers, not anticipated, 109; Germany not likely to acquire colonial possessions in America, 110-114; Germany's colonial system, 111; true destiny of the United States, 116; true American policy, 117; the tropics
