The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1893-03-17

and .telegraphs will own and manage th
state.
The question of money and the mecbon
, ism of exchange will turn entirely ,1pol
the development of the social question
which will be pressed to n climay some
where within the present century,. Tn
present basis of money is SATISFACTORY mel
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 cor
, tain to be outlawed in America, and wbe,
. 1t is driven from America the nropress n
reform will sweep the earth. High Iicens
will be weighed in the balance and founl
wanting, and when this humbur is thor
oughly tested and exposed and proved +,
be delusion and a snare the rood will
unite in thoroughgoing, radical, prohib
itory law.
The punishment Of criminals, il seems +,
me, will be based more and more unon th,
effort to reform rather than to inflict nen
atty. Capital punishment will be abol
ished. 1t has now already collapsed. w,
had 1000 murders last year and less thar
100 legal executions. The sentiment of the
age is against it, and human life suffers ir
consequence. The only remedy seems to he
to substitute life imprisonment and make
the execution of law practical certaintv
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 monooamic
group of society. If Mr. Deacon fails to
secure divorce in Paris he proposes to
apply to the courts of America, and, vice
versa, the 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 a 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
countercurrent 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-
ton 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 its natural |
increase could not be sustained in 1893.
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 stupendous swindle. 1t is
beyond the possibility of any mortal man
it matters not how transcendent his genius \
to know what the law is in Andrea. This |
has produced such confusion alrda1y that
revolution in law is inevitable | Medicine
will attain the dignity Of scient be, having
passed through the period of pr eliminary |
experiment. Theology will becdme more
simple and central in it's practical aims.
Traditionalisln will died hard, Nhjt it viii!
surely die.
American literature will tell thAstye:aas1
American life, and will therefore ba born
within the next century.
The sphere of music in the church ,l1n the
world, will be enlarged to the blessing of
he race. The drama must be born again
r rot OF it's own corruption within the
ext century.
Education is certain to be broader and
lller. We must educate the whole man ,
he head, the hand, tho heart. Especially
lust our methods be revolutionized that ,
len may be trained for their work in the /;
Industrial world. .
Dress must conform more to common -.
ense and less to idiotic whim. :;
Transportation in our great cities will be ,
by the cities themselves, and .
anitary improvements will become reli- ,
ious work. !
Woman will attain her status of equality ;
efore the law.
The servant problem is part of the great !
ocial problem and can be solved only in :
be adjustment of society under truer con-
itions. :
Inventions and discoveries in mechanics !,
nd industrial arts will themselves form in
heir enlargement the basis of the new +,
Ociety which will be evolved in the new /;
entury. Pneumatic transportation as well d
S aerial navigation seems to be certain in /
he next twenty-five years. &
The race will be both handsomer and !,
appier than it now is.
The greatest city will be in America. Its =
ocation will be dependent upon the devel- e
pment of transit facilities. If the freight =
the world must be moved over water =
'ays, as at present, through the next CEN n
Try, that city will be on the Atlantic !,
oast. If water transportation loses it's i'm n
ortance, the great city of the world may be n
eveloped in the interior. This does not !,
.em to be probable a
The American now living who will be :,
lost honored in 1898 is that man who is 9,
lost abused by the men of his generation n
I'D yet who lives the truth in the noblest r
ld truest ways. n
THOMAS DIXON, JR. u
A Woman's View. "
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