The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1893-03-24
ack ward a hundred years, the coming in

Back ward a hundred years, the coming in
tellectual workers will be less superficial
more thoroughly equipped for their work
Of larger views and broader catholic spirit
with less creed in their religion and mor
Of God and humanity. The encyclopedi,
man, who makes a show of knowing al
things, will give way to the specialist, whit
makes an effort to know one thing anG
know it well.
The newspaper which has made bolt
incursion into current literature has with
the stimulus of competition overdonc the
matter, and there is already tendency tt
go to the review for expressions of opinion
We hear continually of the decentralization
of the press, which means the populariza-
lion of the newspaper at the expense of con-
riction. There is going to be a reaction in
that field. There ought to be, and there
undoubtedly will be in New York or some
other commercial and intellectual Ameri-
can center, q press which will express the
convictions OF the wisest minds in all de-
, partments Of thought, irrespective Of what
party or a corporation or an advertiser
wants.
Such paper whose opinions cannot be
bought, whose convictions cannot be fright
will bring the power of the press up to the
traditional standard, and it's opinion will
command the attention Of the world. 1t is
American just now to want the news. AS
the facilities for gathering it and dissent
mating it increase, the intelligent public
will want something else. They will re-
fleet as well as apprehend.
They will have more leisure to think. The
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cannot be kept up for another hundred
years. Already new class is multiplying,
which is reaping the leisure that it's fathers
made possible with drudgery and heart
failure. The continent is all explored and
nearly all surveyed. There will scarcely be
another Pixies peak fever While I am
writing this the statesmen of the country
are asking themselves if it is not time to
make laws which shall restrict if they do
not put a stop to immigration.
In 100 years Denver will be as big as New
York and in the center of a vast population.
If the republic remains politically compact
and doesn't fall apart at the Mississippi
river, Canada will be either part of it or an
independent sovereignty, and the northern
shore of the Gulf of Mexico will be the
Riviera of the western continent.
1t is not possible to estimate the per-
petuity and progress of the United States
feeling that it's political majesty
and its beneflcent freedom will react upon
the intellectual expression of the people.
The solidarity, the general happiness of
the nation, will find an outcome in nobler
works of art and science.
In that hundred years we will have ma
tured our poet and found our Moliere OF
OUR Shakespeare.
The CESSATION of genius is by centuries.
OF course l do not suppose that the in
coming century will bring the millennium.
We all know that progress often depends
)n disaster as character depends on suffer
ng and no one can tell what upheavals are
n store for u.s. History, on the whole, is
'cry sad reading, and it is the lesson not of
material prosperity, but of |
Use, decline and fall.
But in our present rate of progress is |
much hope and some calculable signs. In |
90 years the pu bic will desire better read |
ng, because it must reach a better plane
# thinking. The germs of great UNIVERSE
les will have matured their fruit by that
ime. The world will be in closer touch.
dercy will march with war and arbitra-
ion precede it. Somewhere the nation
III nave an IllclleCIual CaplJdl WIFI
ational library and national theater. 1t
viii have developed an art school of it's own.
The ideal man and woman will have an
pportunity to use all plastic arts and will
peak to us in literature and drama. The
ONES of the country will have been quad
upled, and it is the home that fixes the
tatus of the theater. AS we increase the
judgments of the family circle we lessen
he attraction of the cheap public enter
ailments, which depend upon the hotels
nd the floating population.
We can see even now that sectarian bar
ers are crumbling Men are climbing
yer the ecclesiastical fences to get nearer
each other, and they have found that as
ley come together they approach the
ernal reason.
In hundred years man will have learned
le lesson of trusting his brother, and the
alton which has drawn all peoples to it
it'll cosmic gravitation and lifted them
it'll freedom and confidence will also have
,stroyed the prejudices of race and the
limosities of sect.
Such view presents the new solidarity /.
fraternity, bat it is the old lesson which ,
lat first democrat dauntlessly proclaimed {
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A. c. WHEELER (Nym Crinkle). t