The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-03-21
THU AGE OF PROGRESS.
It Will Not End with the Nine
teenth Century.
HOW THE WORLD WILL WAGlNl993

Happiness and Longevity viii Increase
with Material Prosperity. Says Van lsuren
Densiow-Chauncey VI. Derew Thinks
the Republican and Democratic Parties
Will Live Forever.
lCopyr,ghl. isB. by American Press .Associa-
ton!
In 1898 there would be II population with
in the present area of the United States OF
5sO.OOO .UN--it it should double every thirty
years The actual figures would hardly
fall below 4OO. 600. OO This would imply an
immense progress in the irrigation of our
arid lands. III the cultivation of our moun
tains and sand plains, in the drainage of
our iowlands. in the utilization for manure
OF the present waste of fertility through the
sewage of our cities. in the restoration of
SOIL, and OF forests. in seed selection and
intense plant culture so as greatly to in.
CREASE the product per acre, and in the in
PRODUCTION from all parts Of the world of
new animals and plants and fishes for food.
Thu average crop of wheat per acre. where
planted, Will be likely to rise from twelve
or twenty bushels. as now. to 125 bushels per
acre. to which all ground intensively cult
waited Is equal. Tn size OF food animals
viii Increase by 10 or 20 per cent, and uten.
si.s and dwellings will I've manufactured
largely OF pulps and cements, SO as to util-
.ze vegetation and stone i'll every stage Of
decay waste or unfitGess.
so vast a population could hardly be held
under one government unless the principle
OF federation should be so extended as to
ieave II larger measure of home rule or
state rights or local option" than would
now seem possible. But | think the states
OF North and South America may by wise
measures OF zolivereins, reciprocity, cur.
rency union. arbit ration and subsidized
ilnes OF transit be SO interlaced and aflii-
lated that the distinction between Amer
can states not now in our Union and those
which are III IT will he lessened.
Az to the world at large. 1t will be more
clearly divided between four great Ian
guages and races-viz.. the German-Angio-
American, which is Protestant. the Celtic,
Slavic OF Tartar, the African and the Chi
nese. The three or four l.atinized languages
OF western Europ-viZ., English. French.
German. Spanish and ltalian-will have be-
come more nearly or quite one language
Dy u process OF constant reciprocal borrow.
Ing OF new words and because OF their
Roman blending.
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coercIve and more suggestive-i. e.. they
Will relate iess to the preservation of order
and more TO the promotion OF pleasure,
progress and the diffusion of information
ana thonght They will Imprison fewer
ieion- and publish more statistics. The
army nav and treasury will decline in
relative inheritance. while the census,
bureau OF agriculture and geological sur
vey viii contain the snbstanceof the gov
etufHent'- tut are work and the germs of
it, future expansion
The distinction between state and pri
waite management viii not be so definite
H It now Is. ;is very much state business
vii. TIE open to the influence OF private in
diyiduais, much rs tie national mails are
now carried by private contract under the
restraints OF open competition. Most edu
cation is done by private enterprise through
tine press. and IN our recent war the most
effective battle was fought Ivy the Monitor
a private ship worked by private capital.
ihe railroads and telegraphs Will in the
neal future tee the field III which state and
private management will most freely blend
the stale managing on behalf OF the users.
aud the trustees representing private CAPT
III. managing on behalt OF the creators OF
THESE ways Public means Of cooling all
dwellings III sumnIer and warming them in
winter. OF lrr1natlng all lands. OF supplying
power implements and workn.n for all
industries will III like manner exist, the
Capital invested III which will be a source
OF private income TO individuals. while the
inos!e OF u>e aud rate OF cost or tax for Use
snai, he largely state questions.
Experience has SHOWN that gold and sil
VET coin depend tor their abundance, atil-
lty and value upon the private industry of
the nainerS amt te affect ixI .ia.n,f,l Tf fba
commercial. world, and that governments
III coluinu can DO little more than to certify
facts already existing. Ii any change in
monetary methods shall occur, ii will be to
make the ISSUE OF both coined and paper
money more paipanly an affair of private
industry and less OF state control.
intent erance III the use OF liquors now
results largely from the custom OF treat
Ing Treating results from the fact that
the laDorlns classes get their news concern.
Ing work, prices and the means of living in
the saloons, which are also the only
places where a worthless mans opinion can
find "A bearing or where. n poor man can
drive u bargain or cater for employment
without paying intelligence ofiic. fees or
brokers tees. 1t other agencies can substi-
tule some different sort of clearing house
Tor a worthless mans opinions and some
~Sa'sh "si''h VI ~ " Booi biAit =
lator. there will he less treating and less in
temperance.
AT present every Introduction to a new
acquaintance III h saloon must he ratified
Dy the sncia. glass, every bargain must be
sealed by drinks. every negotiation is
sniootned by whisky Yet out of these
arise most OF the acquaintance, bargain,
and negotiations which neip millions to
earn tneir Isln9 II temperance legisla
ton nndergoes any changes, 1t should be in
two ~lnes-viz.. toward the substitution of
pure tor deterioraied liquors. of light wines
for high wines. OF cheap liquors in place Of
dear liquors and Of the official sale Of
liquors Instead OF the taxed sale.
The confinement and punishmento Of Grim
inais u mischievous to the criminal, wholly
without r~eformatory tendencies, and is Of
little and doubtful value to society as O de-
terrent force Industry is the only reformer.
IL u more promoted by marriage. COLOMBIA