The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-03-21
its ownership il concentrated into few

private wealth.
The laburia. classes will become incre;is
in = dependent upon those who direct
their tabor III channels ia which il Nil! con
Ter the greatest value on society. aud in
which it will thereby earn or win the high
est compensation and the largest liberty of
individual action for themselves, The iip
erty of The iaboring Glasses grows with the
efficiency of the organization of labor,
which ho.as or steers or directs their labor
in those channels wherein it will be most
useful to society by being most largely sup
%plemented and REINFORCED by machinery,
which economic utility to society is always
in fact measured by the wage or profit or
reward it receives.
Hence, labor becomes free in the degree
that it is bound to serve the needs of other
labor, whose efficient tiemanG is measured
by its own capacity TO produce whit others
| will consume and consume what OF hers pro
duce. Present facts supply us with the
means of determining that our soils and
methods of agriculture will be more pro
ductive per capita as our population in
creases, until it shall have reached at least
thirtyfold its present number In 1892 it
will not have passed tenfold.
Society will be seen to he governed more
by economic laws and less by judge-made
and Legislative law.
Medicine will be perceived to he efficient
in the degree in which it has been admins
tered TO the patients ancestors. neighbors,
family and friends. That which has to he
administered to himself. it will be perceived.
is too feeble to reach the disease.
All theology will be conceded to be my.
thology Whatever respect is now accorded
to the former pagan religions of Greece,
Rome, Egypt, Persia and India will he ac
corded to Christianity together with the
higher merit of having absorbed and util
lied all the others. But the world in
getting away from idolatry will not be
come materia.istic. 1t will recognize the
wonlrous mysteries which underiie all the
supposed simplicities of the material uni
verse and will all the more profoundly per.
ceive that it would be impossible for any
heather artificer to frame an idol of stone
or brass without successfully imprisoning
the Goihead in the image.
The principal change which will occur in
American literature will he hat there will
be an American literature. There will
even be American art, American novels in
addition to those of Harriet Beecher Stowe
and Bret Harte, an American drama above
The Danites' or "Elue Jeans and Amer
lean music in addition to our plantation
minstrelsy.
Educational methods will be so modified
rs to reveal IA high and fine art in broiling
a chicken, but will dismiss the senseless
and ~soulless clatter of the piano to tie
limbo of the obsolete. In dress men will
again wear colors. and dress the legs in
tights just as soon as they again have the
legs to dress.
Trowsers will he relegated to bookkcep
ers, BARRIERS. pastry bakers and cripples.
In the degree that women own the property
they will dress plainly The era OF color in
dress among women for three centuries past
has been due to the fact that men held the
purse. and The dress OF women certified
male generosity As women come TO hold
the purse and the estates. they will dress
themselves more plainly. Men will then put
on color ard wear tights to please women
Still women will never largely control
the coercive or military functions of gov
m But as these functions subside
in prominence and the attractive functions
grow toward their maximum. e.. as gov
ernments seek coercion less. and education,
art and dignity mere, women will come to
do more reigning Cities will become
great only a workshops. The poor as well
as the rich of cities will have country resi-
dences. since the transportation to and fro
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city will be needless
Every home will be II clubhouse and the
words ''boarding house. will follow the
word tavern iuto oblivion The chief dis
coyeries will consist in producing fire out of
water. silver out of clay. strong and perma-
nent buildings out OF paper, Il locomotive
force out OF gravity. diamonds out of char
coal, and in making il always possible he
cause profitable for every intelligent person
to travel. For servants you will simply
touch the button, and they will be turnei
on or off at pleasure. like water or gas by
the general Office. The mere fact. that one
lisa servant" will give less indication than
now that he is poor He may he rich. yet
serve.
The race will be handsomer. healthier
and happier. and its longevity will SO Ill
crease that lives of l20 years will be as fire.
quent as now are those Of ninety
Our greatest city will be near the Rocky
mountains-probably Denver or Salt Lake
City.
The most honored American now living
will probably be Robert G.. Inyersoll. as
deep odium while one lives is the surest
test of IA man being far enough in advance
of his time to be hated by his contemporaries
and therefore revered by posterity.
Generally it is essential to the broadest
aud most popular worship that ones infu.
ence shall have been put forth to mold and
modify religion rather than philosophy,
science. art or government. Ingersoll in
this regard stand with Luther, Calvin,
MoEammeh, Jesus, Buddhaa and Confucius
-an iniidel to the ancient faith and mold
er of the coming faith.
Seldom can the laure!s be torn from the
brow OF II man who successfully defends
the character of God against the blasphe.
nous aspersions OF the majority OF his
worshipers.
II lnecrsoll shall be most bonored by the
multitude in 1888 it will not prevent Thorn
as a. Edison from being most honored by
the scientific class.
VAN buren, DENSLOW
Chaupcey NJ. Depew ON the Future of Pc lit
tcal Parties.
From Our New York Correspondent
Chauncey NJ. Depew, in speaking of the
| probable relation Of American parties to