Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-02-09

Three millions celebrated in 1893, 63, ,00O,-
900 in 1893, and 800 .000, 900 will in 1898 cele-
brate the landing of Columbus. They will
be educated and refined, for the arts and
sciences will be taught in the public schools.
Not only will the mind of the pupil be
trained, but the hand as well, and each
child will be instructed in the manual of
tools; they will be instructed in the func-
tions of every part Of the human system;
man, know thyself' will have meaning
in 1893 The economic and social questions
of the day will also be taught in the schools;
there will be no uneducated persons to act
as drags on the car of progress.
The form of government will be simpler;
the initiative and referendum will prevail,
and lawmakers will not be the autocrats
they now are, for they will truly register
the will of the people; they will not dictate
to them as at present The commonwealth
will be organized on industrial lines; labor
organizations will have disappeared, for
there will be no longer a necessity for their
existence. An ideal democracy will stand
| upon the foundations we of 1898 are erect
ing.
Railroads. water courses telegraphs, tele-
phones, pneumatic tubes and all other meth
ods of transporting passengers freight and
intelligence will be owned and operated by
the government The earnings of these
agencies will swell the public treasury.
Homes will flourish, for they will no longer
be taxed. Instead of devoting so much
time and money to the erecting of great
public structures, as at present, the cree
tion and adornment of the home will re
ceive first consideration.
Each home will be regarded as a contri-
button to the wealth and beauty of the ma
tion; the earnings of public concerns will
defray the cost Of maintaining streets, sew
ers, waterworks and light and heat giving
establishments. Cremation will take the
place of the present system of burying the
dead; the living will be healthier, for the
earth will not be poisoned through inter
ment of infection. The contents of sewers
will not flow into river and stream to send
deadly vapors through the air, but will be
utilized to enrich the harvest yielding earth.
The progress of the lower grades of ami
NAL life has been skillfully guided and
hastened until we may now assert that cat
tie and fowl are approaching perfection. In
1903 the same attention will be bestowed on
the human race, and, instead of rushing
blindly forward, increasing and multiply
ing at haphazard, humanity will knowing
ly and intelligently advance to higher alti-
tudes There will be no very rich or very
poor, for long before 1893 dawns upon the
world the industrialists will have learned
that the raising of large families is but
another way to create slaves to perform the
drudgery of the wealthy, and the family
will be restricted to the capacity of the par
ents to maintain and educate.
Under such conditions prisons and poor
| houses will decline, and divorces will not
be considered necessary. The system which
makes criminals of men and women and
at the same time makes millionaires of
others will have disappeared. As conse-
quence the confinement and punishment
of criminals will occupy but little of the
| thought or time of the men of 1893
II. V. POWDERLY.