The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1893-06-09
PREDICTIONS FOR 1893
-Four Bright Journalists Fore
cast the Future.
GATH PLEADS FOR FEDERALISM

yer Will He as Big as New York-views
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 and
Washington, as interpreted by Marshall,
Kent, Quincy Adams, Seward and Lincoln,
are felt in our day through the decrepit or
chaotic provincial states as the spinal life
and brain of our system.
These opponents pass more and mora to
the rear as demagogues and confidence men
as the superiority of cur federal institu'
tions and spirit are seen 10y the rising gen.
erations.
share this federal or national instinct do
they rise to the success of the nation.
apprehend that it will take another con-
vuision, and that probably not an extensive
ene-perhaps a foreign war-to permanent
~ settle the supremacy of the nation in ev-
cry uncrinninal mind.
The weakness of the federal government
now is due to the states who contribute to
it their representative caitiffs as senators,
justices and 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-
arous 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 taught-or
subdue their factional and social animosi-
ties. Good citizens of such state must in
syitably turn toward the cordial and help
ful federalism at Washington, and so,
think, when we have 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 virtuep
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, as a
stockade surrounded by Indians. Liberty
ought to be not the suspicion of mutual
cyclists, but the beautiful respect and har-
mony 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 spasm
and force in 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 nonentity, except
as dead pull back on bold and noble
thinking. Literature, until the other day,
had no care from the lawmaking power.
Sciencei is doing well, but is taking fat tolls
from it's generation. Would not a better
Interpretation of government than ours
have bought the telephone at the outset for
million dollars instead of taxing every
customer in two generations fifty dollars a
year,
Europe is influencing us greatly, and that
will last long and probably for our good.
What could we learn from North Carolina
or Indiana that would be better than
European intercourse?
We must nourish our peasantry, includ-
ing the 100000 of our blacks, for an
empire without servants might almost be
without homes or utensils. What have
these wretched states done to discipline the
poor in the mechanic and household artist
The farmers are without public spirit OF
they would have better roads and con-
yeniences. 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
sonfiscates 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
ahurch thrive upon our acquiescent slavery,
The home, too, should be free, the civil and
not the clerical power should do all the
marrying; these broken homes are often
the result of the mercenary and secret
priest marrying the dissolute, 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 adulterating brewers to wear
stripes.
Woman's great triumph, and mans, too
will be not to need the ballot often; she
ballots alone and uninfuenced for man
Perhaps the old maids might be given the
Australian ballot to widen the understand
ing of it.
Private societies usurping the laws funo
tons in the name Of morals are Spanish In
questions and too often directed by meh OF
hideously perverted animality.
The United Statesmen the Texas con
trived interstate commission-ought to be
strong power in our railways and to OWL
the telegraphs. The world is interested in
our becoming not a Christian so much as q
humane and scientific empire, with one
hand secured upon the peoples will and
the ether free to labor for their lasting
welfare.
hope the most honored American In
1893 will be George Washington