Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1893-06-15

The question Of money and the mechan-
ism of exchange will turn entirely upon
the development of the social question,
which will be pressed to climax some
where within the present century. The
present basis of money is satisfactory nei-
Their to those who believe in social reform
nor to those who belong to the conservative
element in the present social regime.
Within the next century the saloon is GER
tain to be outlawed in America, and when
it is driven from America the progress of
reform will sweep the earth. High license
will be weighed in the balance and found
wanting, and when this humbug is thor
oughly tested and exposed and proved to
be delusion and a snare the good will
unite in a thoroughgoing, radical, prohib-
itory law.
The punishment of criminals, it seems to
me, will be based more and more upon the
effort to reform rather than TO innict pen
atty. Capital punishment will he abol-
ished 1t has now already collapsed. We
had 1000 murders last year and less than
100 legal executions. The sentiment of the
age is against it, and human life suffers in
consequence. The only remedy seems to be
to substitute life imprisonment and make
the execution of law practical certainty
upon the guilty.
Our divorce laws must become uniform
not only in America, hut there must be in
the future an adjustment of the principle
of the home life international. All inter-
national law is founded on the monogamic
group of society. If Mr.. Deacon fails to
secure divorce in Paris he proposes to
apply to the courts Of America, and, vice
versa, the man who is interested in such
procedure may change the base of opera
tons
The tendency for the accumulation Of
wealth in few hands must continue to
increase until overturned by social revo-
luton that will make such an increase an
impossibility. That revolution is certain
to he accomplished within less than fifty
years.
Great corporations and vast business ag-
gregations will continue to grow greater
until in their ovcrshadowing power they
dispute the authority of the state, and like
the railroads and telcGraphs, will be alb
sorbed by the state This tendency is over
wheming, and there is as yet developed no
commencement to interfere with its in
evitabe 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 a question
of time when this tendency to centrali2a-
ton and absorption will become universal
in nil industries and can only end in the
destruction of connection. the establish
ment of a monopoly-and the state is the
only mower t,at has the ripht to RIM a mo-
nonojv This tendency seems to make the
naturalization of industry the certain goal
of tho futiro
The condition of tho tailoring classes ia
ccrtain 70 become more indennndent as
tbev are bettcr educatcd and learn tbei,
RIGHTS and duties.
Our soil is cannblo Of nroducinr abundant
food for the world in 1893. but the methods
of arriculture must and will be imnroved.
else the present population with its natural
increase could NOT he sustained in 1898.
Within the next century, law will be sim
plified and brought within .he range of the
common Deople. and the occupation oftwo-
thirds of the LAWYERS will be DESTROYED. At
| present law is a stupendous swindle 1t is
| beyond the possibility of any mortal nun
| it matters not how transcendent his genus
to know what the law is in America. This
| has produced such confusion already that a
revolution in Jaw is inevitable. Medicine
! will attain the dignity of a science having
passed through the period of preliminary
| CXDerimcut. Theology will become more
! simple and central in il, practical aims
! Traditionalisin will died hard, but it will
surely die.
American literature will tell the story Of
| American life, and will therefore he born
within the next century.
The sphere of music in the church, in the
world, will be enlarged to the blessing OF
the race. 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 hand, the heart. Especially
must our methods be revolutionized that
men NAV be trained for their work in the
| industrial world.
Dress must conform more to common
sense and less to idiotic whim.
TRANSFORMATION in our great cities will he
controlled Inv the cities themselves. and
sanitary improvements will become a reli
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