The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-03-28

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managed ~ the s.a;eor THAT the railroads
and teius.. Y., Will own ard manage The
STATE.
The question of mClCy and the mechan
ism of .xehattEe viii tara entirely upon
the development of the social question,
which viii be pressed to ii climax sofaa-
where within the present century. The
present basis of money is satisfactory mel
Their to those wi.1 believe in social reform
nor to those wlp heiongto the conservative
element in the present social regime.
Within the next century the saloon is GER
tain TO he 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 II delusion and Il snare the good will
unite in II thoroughgoing. radical, prohib
tory 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
100 legal executions. The sei1Hment of the
age is against it, and human life suffers in
consequence. The only remedy seems to he
to substitute life Imprisonment and make
the execution of law a 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. If Mr.. Deacon fails to
secure a divorce in Paris he proposes to
uyplv RI tho rnylrtS IF morton and yica
versa, the man who is interested in sue
procedure may change the base of opera
tons.
The tendency for the accumulation Of
wealth in Il few hands must continue to
increase until overturned by II social revo-
luton that will make such an increase an
impossibility. That revolution is certain
to be accomplished within less than City
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 a 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 a monopoly-and the state is the
only power that has the right to run a 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 1893, but the methods
of agriculture must and will be improved,
else the present population with its natural
increase could not be sustained in 1898.
Within the next century law will be sim
plitied and brought within the range of the
common people, and the occupation OF "
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
to know what the law is in America. This
has produced such confusion already that a
revolution in law is inevitable. Medicine
will attain the dignity of n science, having
passed through the period of preliminary
experiment. Theology will become more
simple and central in its practical aims.
Traditionalis,n will died hard. but it viii,
surely die.
American literature will tell the story Of
American life. and will therefore be born
within the next century.
The sphere of music i'll the church, in the
world. will be enlarged to the blessing Of
the race. The drama must be born again
or rot of its own corruption within the
next century.
Education is certain to be broader and
fuller. We must educate the whole nan
the head, the hand, the heart. Especially
must our methods be revoiutionized 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 tue law.
The servant problem is a 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 well
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 deyel.
opment of transit facilities. If the freight
of the world must be moved over water
ways, as at present, through the next Cen
fury, that city will he on the Atlantic
coast. If rvater transportation loses its i'm
portance. the great city of the word may be
developed in the interior This does not
seem to be probable.
/, The American now living who will be
most honored in 1893 Is that man who Is
most abused by the men of his generation
and yet who lives the truth in the noblest
and truest ways.
THOMAS DIXON .IR