The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1893-05-19

managed by the state or that the railroads
and telegraphs will own and manage the
state.
The question of money and the mechan-
ism of exchange will turn entirely upon
the development OF the social question,
which will be pressed to n climax some
where within the present century. The
present basis of money IL satisfactory nei-
Their to those who believe in social reform
nor to those who belong to the conservative
element in the present social regime
Within the next century the saloon is GER
tain to be outlawed in America, and when
it is driven from America the progress of
reform will sweep the earth. High license
will be weighed in the balance and found
wanting, and when this humbug is thor
oughly tested and exposed and proved to
be delusion and snare the good will
unite in a thoroughgoing, radical, prohib-
itory law.
The punishment of criminals, it seems to
me, will be based more and more upon the
effort to reform rather than TO infiict pen
atty. Capital punishment will be abol-
ished. 1t has now already collapsed. We
had 1000 murders last year and less than
age is against it, and human life suffers in
to substitute life imprisonment and make
the execution of law u practical certainty
upon the guilty.
Our divorce laws must become uniform
not only in America, but there must be in
the future an adjustment of the principle
of the home life international. All inter
national law is founded on the monogamic
group of society. II Mr.. Deacon fails to
secure a divorce in Paris he proposes to
apply to the courts of America, and, vice
versa, tho man who is interested in such
procedure may change the base Of opera
tions.
The tendency for the accumulation of
wealth in a few hands must continue to
increase until overturned by social revo-
luton that will make such an increase an
impossibility. That revolution Is certain
to be accomplished within less than fifty
years.
Great corporations and vast business ag-
gregations will continue to grow greater
until in their overshadowing power they
dispute the authority of the state, and, like
the railroads and telegraphs, will be alb
sorbed by the state. This tendency is over
whelming, and there is as yet developed no
commencement to interfere with its in
evitable result. Dry goods dealers add
to their general stores departments Of
groceries and are running out of the
market thousands of smaller dealers
throughout the city. 1t is only question
of time when this tendency to centraliza-
tion and absorption will become universal
in all industries, and can only end in the
destruction of competition, the establish
ment Of monopoly-and the state is the
| only power that has the right to run mo-
| nopoly. This tendency seems to make the
naturalization of industry the certain goal
| of the future.
The condition of the laboring classes is
| certain to become more independent as
| they are better educated and learn their
| rights and duties.
Our soil Is capable of producing abundant
| food for the world in $685. but the methods
of agriculture must and will be improved,
| else the present population with it's natural
| increase could not be sustained in 1903
Within the next century law will be sim
| plified and brought within the range of the
| common people, and the occupation of two
thirds of the lawyers will be destroyed. At
present law is a stupendous swindle. 1t is
/ beyond the possibility of any mortal man
| it matters not how transcendent his genius
Ito know what the law is in America. This
| has produced such confusion already that II
| revolution in law is inevitable. Medicine
| will attain the dignity of Il science, having
passed through the period Of preliminary
| experiment. Theology will become more
| simple and central in its practical aims.
| Traditionalism will died hard, bat it viii,
surely die.
American literature viii tell the story Of
American life, and will therefore he born
within the next century.
The sphere of music in the church, in the
world, will be enlarged to the blessing of
the race. The drama must he born again
or rot Of it's own corruption within the
next century.
Education is certain TO be broader and
fuller We must educate the whole man
the head, the hand, the heart Especially
must our methods be revolutionized that
men may be trained for their work in the
industrial world.
Dress must conform more to common
sense and less to idiotic whim.
Transportation in our great cities will be
controlled by the cities themselves, and
sanitary improvements will become II reli-
gious work.
Woman will attain her status of equality
before the law.
The servant problem is part of the great
social problem and can be solved only in
the adjustment of society under truer con-
| ditions.
Inventions and discoveries in mechanics
and industrial arts will themselves form in
| their enlargement the basis of the new
society which will be evolved in the new
century. Pneumatic transportation as we'll
as aerial navigation seems to be certain in
the next twenty-five years.
The race will be both handsomer and
happier than it now is.
The greatest city will be in America. Its
location will be dependent upon the devel-
opment of transit facilities. II the freight
of the world must be moved over water
ways, as at present, through the next CEN
tury, that city will be on the Atlantic
coast II water transportation loses its i'm
portance, the great city of the world may be
| developed in the interior This does not
seem to be probable.
The American now living who will be
most honored in 1898 is that man who is
most abused by the men Of his generation
and yet who lives tho truth In the noblest
and truest ways.
THOMAS DIXON. JR.
A Woman's View.
A.. II