Gloucester County Democrat., 1893-03-16

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 te interfere. with its in
eyitable 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 question
of time when this tendency to centraliza-
tion and absorption will become universal
in all industries, and can only end in the
destruction of competition, the establish
ment OF 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 1892 but the methods
of agriculture must and will be improved,
else the-present population with its natural
increase could not be sustained in 1893
Within the next century law will be sim
|
common people, and the occupation Of two
thirds of the lawyers will he destroyed. At
present law is a stupendous swindle 1t is
beyond the possibility of any mortal man
it matters ret how transccrdent his genius
| to l.Eow what he law IL in America. This
has produced :,,ch confusion already that
revolution in law il, inevitable. Medicine
will attain tie dignity Of IL science, having
passed through the period Of preliminary
experiment Theology will become more
simple and central in its practical aims
| T'raditionalis:a will died hard. but it vii!
surely die.
American literature will tell the story of
| American life, and will therefore be born
within the next century
The sphere OF m,.S:c in the church, in the
world, will bc oilla ,:cd to the blessing of
the races 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 man
the head, the hard. the heart. Especially
must our methods lie revolutionized 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 reli-
| giorls work
Woman will attain her status of equality
before the law
The servant problem is u 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 he 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 Ike both handsomer and
happier than it now is
The greatest city will be in America Its
location will he dependent upon the devel-
I opnent of transit facilities. If the freight
of the world must be moved over water
ways, as at present, through the next cen
| tury. that city will be on the Atlantic
coast. If water transportation loses its i'm
portance, the great city of the world may be
Developed in the interior This does not
seem to be probable.
The American now living who will be
most honored in 1898 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. JR.