Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-04-13
IN ONE HUNDRED YEARS
Great Things Shall Come to
Pass in 1903.
INGALLS, READS THE FUTURE

The Railway and the Steamship VIII Be
as Obsolete as the Stagecoaoh-Prophe-
cies from Joaquin Miller the Poet, War
ner Miller the Statesman, John Habber-
ton and E. W. Howe.
Copyright, 1893 by American Press Associa-
tion.l
Man, having conquered the earth and the
sea, will complete his dominion over ma
ture by the subjugation of the atmosphere
This will be the crowning triumph of the
coming century. Long before 1893 the jour
ney from New York to San Francisco,
across the continent, and from New York to
London, across the sea, will be made between
the sunrise and sunset of summer day
The railway and the steamship will be as
obsolete as the stagecoach, and it will be
as common for the citizen to call for his
dirigible balloon as it now is for his buggy
or his boots. Electricity will be the mo-
tive power and aluminium or some lighter
metal the material of the aerial cars which
are to navigate the abyss of the sky.
The electric telegraph will be supplanted
by the telephone, which will be so per-
fected and simplified that instruments in
every house and office will permit the COM
mun1cation of business and society to be
conducted by the voice at will from Bos-
ton to Moscow and Hoang-Ho as readily
as now between neighboring villages.
This will dispose of the agitation of the
proposition to take the railroads and tele-
graphs away from those who own them
and give them to those who do not.
Domestic life and avocations will be rem
dered easier, less costly and complex by the
distribution of light, heat and energy
through storage cells or from central cleo
trio stations, so that the servant prob
lem" will cease to disturb, and woman
having more leisure her political and So
cial status will be elevated from subordina-
tion to equality with man.
The contest between brains and numbers
which began with the birth of the race,
will continue to its extinction. The strug-
gle will be fierce and more relentless In the
coming century than ever before in the his
tory of humanity but brains will keep on
top, as usual Those who fail will outnum-
Der those who succeed. Wealth will accu-
mulate, business will combine, and the gulf
between the rich and the poor will be more
profound. But wider education and greater
| activity of the moral forces of the race will
ultimately compel recognition of the fact
that the differences between men are Or
ganic and fundamental-that they result
from an act of God and cannot be changed
by an act of congress-
The attempt to abolish poverty, pay debts
and cure the ills Of society by statute will
be the favorite prescription of ignorance,
incapacity and credulity for the next hun
dred years, as it has been from the begin
ming of civilization. The condition In the
United States is unprecedented, from the
fact that all the implacables and malcon-
tents are armed with the ballot, and II
they are unanimous they can control the
purse and the sword by legislation but the
! perception that the social and political
condition here, with all it's infirmities, Is
immeasurably the best will undoubtedly
make our system permanent and preserve
1t even against essential notifications.
Our greatest city in 1892 Chicago! 1t
| is vortex, with constantly increasing
circumference, into which the wealth and
population of the richest and most fertile
area Of the earth's surface is constantly
concentrating When this anniversary re-
turns Chicago will be not only the greatest
city in the United States, but In the world.
JOHN j. INGALLS,.