The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1893-03-24
PREDICTIONS FOR 1893
-Four Bright Journalists Fore.
cast the Future.
GATH PLEADS FOR FEDERALISM.

ress of Literature and the Drama-Dcn
yer Will BE as Big as New York-View
of John SwintOn and Kate Field on vari
GUS Subjects.
copyright, 1893. by American Press Associa
tion.]
The federalist founders of the republic
of the United States, Jay, Hamilton ant
Washington, as interpreted by Marshall
Kent, Quincy Adams, Seward and Lincoln
are felt in our day through the decrepit OF
chaotic provincial states as the spinal life
and brain Of our system.
These opponents pass more and moro tt
the rear as denagogues and confidence mer
as the superiority Of our federal institu
tions and spirit are seen by the rising gen
erations.
In proportion as the subsidiary states
share this federal or national instinct dc
they rise to the success of the nation.
Iapprehend that it will take another con-
vulsion, and that probably not an extensive
one-perhaps a foreign war-to permanent
ly settle the supremacy of the nation in ev-
cry uncriminal mind.
The weakness of the federal government
now is due to the states who contribute to
| ~ luelf representative CdlllllS DIS SCuaUOTS,
| justices and even presidents.
The last message of the governor Of South
| Carolina, the most hayward of all our early
provinces, shows the failure of an obstrep-
erous state sovereignty in the refusal of
| the people, though they disobey the federal
laws Of suffrage, to pay their taxes, main
tain their public schools, uphold their one
university-the first one where free trade,
t0t1 y
subdue their factional and social animosi-
ties. Good citizens of such a state must in
evitably turn toward the cordial and help
full federalism at Washington, and so,
think, when we have Il less mercenary
newspaper press and can for less income
tell more truth, the poorer and raggeder
states will come in like the prodigal son
and say, Father, l have sinned against
heaven and in thy sight; make me one of
thy hired servants"
The necessities of dull states, the good
sense of great states, all bear toward rails
ing and respecting the one federal father
hood which taxes while we sleep, so that
we do not feel the rib taken from our body,
and applies that subtraction to delightful
taste and intercourse.
Out of the one public estate have come
all these railways, school sections, new and
great cities, irrigating works, mines, etc
Where the federal works are expensive the
state politicians make them SO. Who
would not rather trust the United States
engineers than state legislature, either |
for wisdom or virtue?
The faith heretofore lacking in the SUI
preme legislature through local and press
demagogy will, when restored, make honor
at Washington the public standard.
Liberty has descended to us through tim
orous and eXcitable men like Jefferson, asa
stockade surrounded by Indians. Liberty
ought to be not the suspicion of mutual
cyclists, but the beautiful respect and har
nony between man and his family.
The unequal civilization of the parts of
DUR country, the assembling as tribes in
stead of fellow countrymen, the law of life
ind property in one part, the law of spasm
ind force in another part, the long results
IT slavery and nonpayment of taxes, must
ind will yield.
Excessive wealth ought to be taxed in its
iull proportion, not more for remove the
stimulus of wealth and at present America
s nothing.
The church has become nonentity, except
Is dead pull back on bold and noble
ALiOSiiuulCy uhlil uuC OuuCI udy, !
lad no care from the lawmaking power
science is doing well, but is taking fat tolls
rom it's generation. Would not a better
of government than ours
lave bought the telephone at the outset for
million dollars instead of taxing every '
ustomer in two generations fifty dollars {
ear?
Europe is influencing us greatly, and that
lou nd ot,l lvyf 60, |
What could we learn from North Carolina I
r Indiana that would be better than |
European intercourse? {
We must nourish our peasantry, includ- i
ng the 100000 of our blacks, for an f
mpire without servants might almost be
yithout homes or utensils What have q
hese wretched states done to discipline the c
DOR in the mechanic and household arts? c
The farmers are without public spirit or v
hey would have better roads and con- i
From the cities and the villa v
eats are to come the immediate helps to O
rogress. d
Individual life needs more liberty than Q
ogma and fashion will accord. He who +
onfiscates my Sunday to serve his super Z
-ition tyranniZes over one-seventh of my ?
fe a
ost us so much to live, for fashion and
hurch thrive upon our acquiescent slavery. $
he home, too, should be free, the civil and C
OF the clerical power should do all the t
larrying; these broken homes are often
ne result of the mercenary and secret '
REST marrying the dissolute, the half o
rown and the runaway to each other. a
Temperance and legislation have little to "
0 with each other Liquors ought to be b
lspected and adulterating brewers to wear &
lripes. 81
Woman's great triumph, and mans, too,
ill be not to need the ballot often; she q
allots alone and uninfluenced for man. Il
erhaps the old maids might be given the "
australian ballot to widen the understand "
" of it. k
Private societies usurping the laws func
ons in the name of morals are Spanish in 81
uisitions and too often directed by men of u
ideously perverted animality. II
The United Statesmen the Texas con. i
lived interstate commission-ought to be II
strong power in our railways and to own L
lie telegraphs. The world is interested in p
IT becoming not Christian so much as a ii
umane and Scientific empire, with one N
and secured upon the peoples will and
he other free to labor for their lasting oil
elfare al
/ hope the most honored American in ir
93 will be George Washington. st
GEORGE ALFRED TOWNSEND. OF
Kate Fields Forecast. &c
What American now living will be most
lnored in Igag; lev