The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-04-02

backward a hundred wears, the coming II
tellectual workers will be les; Stparlicis l.
more thoroughly equipped ion their wo. :,
OF larger views and BROADER catholic spirit.
with less creed in their religion and mosc
Of Go,l and humanity the eEcgelopeG {
man. vino makes Il show OF Knowing IL.
things, will give way to the specialist. VI Q
ilt.t<es III effort to know one thing IL 4
know it well
The newspaper which has made a bu.d
incursiou into cu.rent literature has with
the stimulus of competition oveftlone Il e
matter, and there is already Il Tendency 10
go to the review for expressions of opinion.
We hear continually OF the GENERALIZATION
of the press, which means the popularizt
ton of the newspaper ut the expense of con
viction. There is going to he IA reaction in
that field. There ought to be. and there
undoubtedly will be in New York or some
other commercial and intellectual Anieri
can center. Il press which will express the
convictions of the wiseSt minds in all de
partlnents Of thought. irrespective of what
a party or Il corporation or an advertiser
wants.
Such Il paper whose opinions cannot be
bought, whose convictions cannot be fright.
ened and whose good will cannot be cajoled
will bring the power of the press up to the
traditional standard, and its 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 wei! as apprelend.
They will have more leisure to think. The
present rate of headlong material activity
cannot lA kppt I'm tn. I hap b1fplr.,,
years. Already Il new class is multiplying.
which is rcaping the leisure that its fathers
made possible with drudgery and heart
failure. The continent is all explored 81 !,
nearly all surveyed. There Will scaicelyie
another Pixies peak fever. While | am
writing this the statesmen of the country
are asking themselves ii it is not time to
make laws which shall restrict if they to
not put a stop to immigration.
In 100 years Denver Will he as big is New
York and III the center ol II vast population.
If the republic remains politically compact
and doesn't fall apart at the Mississippi
river, Canada will he 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
without feeling that its political majesty
and its beneiicent 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 or
our Shakespeare.
The CESSATION Of genius is by centuries.
Of course ! do not suppose that the in
coming century will bring the millennium.
We all know that progress often depends
on disaster as character depends on suffer
ing and no one can tell what upheayals are
in store for rs. History, on the whole, is
very sad reading. and it is the lesson not of
uninterrupted material prosperity, bat Of
rise. decline aud fall.
but III oar present rate OF progress. is
much hope and some calculab,e signs. In
loo years the public will desire better read
ing, because il must reach Il better plane
of thinking. The germs of great universe
ties will have maturel their fruit by that
time. TIE world will Ike in closer touch.
Mercy viii march with war and arhitra-
ton preccde il. Somewhere the nation
will have an intellectual capital with IL
national library and a national theater. II
will have developed an art school of its OWE.
lis iatNti iittii aiid NbIliGii VIII uaAt al
opportunity TO use all plastic arts, and will
speak to us in literature and drama. The
homes of the country will nave been quad
rupled, and it is the home that fixes the
status of the theater. As we increase the
enioyments of the family circle we lessen
the attraction of the cheap public enter
tainments, which depend upon the hotels
and the iioating population.
We can see even now that sectarian bar.
riers are ~erumbiing. Men are climbing
over the ecclesiastical fences to get nearer
to each other, and they have found that as
they come together they approach the
eternal reason.
In II hundred years man will nave learned
the lesson OF trusting his brother, and the
nation which has drawn all peoples to il
with IA cosmic grayitaiion aud lifted them
with freedom and confidence will also have
destroyed the prejudices of race and the
animosities of sect.
Such "A view presents the new solidarity
of fraternity, but it is the old lesson which
that first democrat dauntiessIy proclaimed
On Mars hill.
~. G. WHEELER Nym Criuklel