The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-04-02
PREDICTIONS FOR 1893
Four Bright Journalists Fore
cast the Future.
GATH PLEADS FOR FEDERALISM.
Nym Crinkle Estimates the Probable Prog
yer viii BE as Big AS New Y~ork-yiews
of John Swinton and Kate Field on yari-
Gus Subjects.

yer win BE AS Big AS New York-yiew.
of John winton and Kate Field on yari,
Gus Subjects.
Copyright. 1898. by American Press Associa.
ton.
The f%ederaiist founders of the republic
of the United States. Jay. Hamilton and
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 Il system.
These opponents pass more and more to
the rear as demagogues and confidence men
as the superiority of our federal institu-
tions and spirit are seen by the rising gen
e%rations.
In proportion rs the subsidiary states
share this federal or national instinct do
they rise to the success of the nation.
lapprehend 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 ey
cry uncriminal mind.
The weakness of the federal government
now is due to the states who contribute to
il their representative caitiifs as senators.
justices aud even presidents.
The last message of the governor of SOuth
Carolina, the most Maynard 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,
rebellion and secession were laughter
subdue their factional and social animosi
ties. Good citizens of such II state must in.
evitably turn toward the cordial and help
full federalism at Washington, and SO, !
think, when we have a less mercenary
newspaper press and can for less income
tell more truth. the poorer anal 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 duh 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 nave 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 IL state legislature. either
for wisdom or virtue?
Til faith heretofore lacking in the su
prenle Legislature through local and press
demagogy'will, when restored, make homo
ut Washington the public standard.
Liberty has descended to us through tim.
ogous and excitahle men like Jefferson, asa
-tockade surrounded by Indians. Liberty
ought to be not the suspicion OF mutual
cyclists, but the beautiful respect aud har
inony between man and his family.
The unequal civilization of the parts Of
our country. the assembling as tribes in
stead of fellow countrymen, the law of life
and property in one part. the law of spasiG
and force i'll another part, the long results
OF slavery and nonpayment of taxes. must
and will yield.
Excessive wealth ought to be taxed in its
full proportion. not more, for remove the
stimulus of wealth and at present America
is nothing.
The church has become noneutity, except
as Il dead pull back on bold aud noble
thinking Literature. until the other day.
had no care from the iawmaking power.
Science Is doing well, but is taking fat tolls
from its generation. Would not IA better
Interpretation of government than ours
have bought the telephone at the outset for
"A million dollars instead of taxing every
customer in two generations fifty dollars a
year,
Europe is influencing rs greatly, and that
will last long and probably Tor our good.
What could we learn from North Carolina
or Indiana that would tie better than
European intercourse?
We must nourish our peasantry, includ
ing the s,o0o.09 of our blacks. for an
empire without servants might almost be
without homes or utensils. What have
these wretchea states don to discipline the
poor in the mechanic and household arts
The farmers are without public spirit Or
they would have better roads and con
veniences. From the cities and the villa
seats are to come the immediate helps to
progress.
Individual life needs more liberty than
dogma and fashion will accord. He who
coniiscates my Sunday to serve his super
stition tyrannizes over one-seventh of my
life.
When we become free indeed it will not
cost us SO much to live. for fashion and
church thrive upon our acquiescent slavery.
The home, too, should be free, the civil aud
not the clerical power should do all the
marrying. these broken homes are often
the result of the mercenary and secret
priest marrying the absolute, the hall
grown and the runaway to each other.
Temperance and legislation have little to
do with each other. Liquors ought to be
inspected and a~dulterating brewers to wear
stripes.
WomaG's great triumph. and mans, 100,
will be not to need the ballot often: she
ballots alone and uniniiuenced for II man.
Perhaps the old maids might be given the
AuStrnfiaa ballot to widen the understand
ing of it.
Private societies usurping the laws func-
lions in the name of morals are Spanish in
QUESTIONS and too often directed by men Of
hideously perverted animality.
The United States-not the Texas con
trived interstate commission-ought to be
y strong power in our railways and to own
the telegraphs. The world is interested in
our becoming not a Christian SO much as a
humare and scientific empire, with one
hand secured upon the peoples will and