Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-10-24

is required, than against the insidious
growth of domestic interferences with per-
sonal liberty. In some private admins
trdtiOns which have been concerned with,
have often insisted, much to the
disgust of officials, that instead of
assuming, as people usually do,
that things are going right until it is
proved that they are going wrong, the
proper course is to assume they are going
wrong until it is proved that they are
going right. You will find, continually,
that private corporations, such as joint
stock banking companies, come to grief
from not acting upon this principle. And
what holds of these small and simple pri-
vate administrations, holds still more OF
the great and complex public administers
tions. People are taught, and suppose be.
lieve, that ''the heart of man is deceitful
above all things and desperately wicked y
and, strangely enough, believing this, they
place implicit trust in those they appoint
to this or that function. I do not think
so i'll of human nature; but, on the other
hand, I do not think so well of human
nature as to believe it will do without
being watched"
AMERICAS FUTURE.
Must then understand that you think
unfavorably of our future?'
mo one can form anything more than
vague and general conclusions respecting
your future. The factors are too numerous
too vast, too fer beyond measure in their
quantities and intensities. The world has
never before seen social phenomena at all
comparable with those present in the Uni
ted States. A society spreading over enor.
nous tracts while still preserving its polit-
zeal continuity, is new thing. This pro-
gressive incorporation of vast bodies of
immigrants of various bloods has never
occurred on such scale before
Large empires composed of different peo-
pies have in previous cases been formed
by conquest and annexation. Then your
immense plexus of railways and telegraphs
tends to consolidate this vast aggregate O.:
states in way that no such aggregate has
ever before been consolidated. And there
are many minor cooperating causes un-
like those hitherto known. No one can
say how it is all going to work out. That
there will come hereafter troubles of va
rious kinds, and very grave ones, seems
highly probable; but all nations have had,
and will have, their troubles. Already you
have triumphed over one great trouble
and may reasonably hope to triumph over
others. 1t may, I think, be reasonably
held that both because of its
size and the heterogeneity of its
compOnents, the American nation will
be long time in evolving its ultimate
form, but that its ultimate form will be
high. One great result is, I think, tolerably
clear. From biological truths it is to be
inferred that the eventual mixture of the
allied varieties of the Aryan race forming
the population will produce more power
full type of man than has hitherto existed,
and type of man more plastic, more
adaptable, more capable of undergoing
the notifications needful for complete So
cial life. think that whatever difficulties
they may have to surmount, and whatever
tribulations they may have to pass through,
the Americans may reasonably look for
ward to time when they will have pro-
duced a civilization grander than the world
has known.