Morning journal and courier., 1893-06-21
COMMUNICATIONS.
Let Us Go Slow.

To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER.
 Yes, let us go slow. Let us not merely use the words.
 Let us be certain in regard to matters of fact. Let us be reasonable in our conclu- sions. Let us not recklessly assume the former and as recklessly jump at the lat ter-thst is, if we really mean ''Let us go slow," and at the same time really mean let us be honest.
 Can man make better ice and water than the Creatorl The question has been asked and Its form is very brief. To reply as briefly in more than one way, to frame in other than one form ap answer in as few words would be difficult without what, in appearance at least, would be irreverence. The answer No, would be more brief. It may be safely made. But given as an an swer to all that is implied in connection with the question as asked, it should be supplemented at some length in order that the real question ct issue may Do fair 1y met.
 The Creators work cannot be improved upon; but what he has provided in the universe of nature-provlsions to the pos sibilities of which man is slowly awaken ing-may be used with equal reason in the puri6cation of water and in the production of pure ics as in any other directions. In these processes the results are achieved by as natural methods ss are any results ob- tained through human thought, human skill and human labor.
 The man who dams 8 stream, who guards from contamination the watershed whence Is to come the contents of the basin thus formed, who keeps the basin clear of de- oaying vegetable and animal matter, and who then awaits the congealtng and crystal fxing effects of a freezing temperature, produces much ice where little would have been produced had the stream been left to follow an unobstructed course.
 But who shall say that in taking advsn- tags of the conditions his Maker has placed at his disposal he is guilty of a more 'boundless conoeip in concluding "that been made by his Creator" !" than is he who has from the berry of the fields, its growth choked by grass and weeds and dwarfed in an impoverished soil, produced the man. moth and luscious fruit now to be seen in our msrketsi Who shall cay that in this there is more boundless oonceit than in-with the products of the mines, the forests, the soil, and the animal world providing all that contributes to the safety, | the comfort, the happiness and the luxury ! of the present time as in contrast with the | primitive conditions where shelter was found only in caves and under trees; where rsiment was not even thought of; where | life was sustained with food to which ab- solutely no preparation had been givent 1 In the production of what is popularly known ss "srtifcial ice. !" but which in fact is 6 natural product, there Is merely one more Illustration of progress, of the awak- ening to knowledge of the means which the Creator has provided for the temporal well-being of man. Science ia knowledge of nature. In placing seed in the Soil there is provided 8 condition necessary for ns' ture to accomplish results which she is ready to accomplish In providing the conditions necessary for production of ice
 when warm currents of rivers pAss between shores of greensward bordered by trees in
 full foliage there Is the same reliance on
 nature.
 The same Mighty Power which brings ice
 into existence on our streams and lakes ir
 the months of winter brings ice into ex
 istenoe in every way in which 1t can bs
 produced. And that same Power providel
 the agencies by which can be restored ts
 its natural purity the water which ha
 been contaminated by the neglect or ig | norauoa of man