Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-04-27
THE WORLD WILL WAC.
And Our Descendants Will En-
joy Great Advantages in 1903.
MRS. LEASE SEES A ROSY FUTURE.

"e Socih Cannibalism OF Our Time.
Professor Swing Takes "a More Moderate
View-The Conquest of the Elements
VIII BE Continued.
Copyright, 1858, by American Press Assoc "a
tion.l
Victor Hugo, whose birthday France has
made national holiday, prophesying of
the future, said: I'm the Twentieth cen
tury war will be dead! Royalty will be
deadl Famine will be dead, but the people
VIII live For all humanity there will be
but one country, that country the whole
earth; for all the people one hope, that hope
all heavenr' When wescontemplate the
wonderful advances made by the world in
the past fifty years, the triumphs of skill,
the inventions of genius perfected and
brought about through the forces of steam
and electricity, imagination runs riot and
the brain grows dizzy at the possibilities of
the next century. When we remember too,
that humanity, like blind Orion struggling
beneath his load to meet the God of day,
has turned its face toward the light strug-
Cling toward the realms of Thought, de-
veloping higher intellectually progress.
ing in an age of ideas, we may well ex-
claim, Ear hath not heard, eve hath not
seen, nor hath it entered into the heart of
man." the wonders, changes and gigantic
progression that science, now in its infancy,
hath in store for the children of men,
In 100 years the political and social i'm
provements of the United States and of the
whole world will be so marked in contrast
with the social cannibalism and pitiful
wage slavery of today that the world will
shudder as it reviews our time. The dec
laration of American independence will be
the only political platform, its inspiration
the golden rule; the map of Europe will be
changed, crowns will fall and thrones
crumble; the divine right of kings and the
divine right of capital will be recognized as
subterfuges whereby the vicious and idle
lived upon the toll of others. The reign of
Justice will be inaugurated
The complexity of government will dis
appear, for the intricate and burdensome
laws that now obstruct justice and bewilder
and beswindle the masses shall be obliter-
ated. The rule of individual action will be
the fullest liberty and highest good of each
compatible with the fullest liberty and high
est good of all. The railroads and channels
OF communication, light, water and all
public improvements will be managed by
the state in the interest of the people and
owned by the general government. That
superstition of darker past, n fetich
taught by selfish partisans and college bred
idiots, that gold should be the basis of
money, will disappear before the full knowl-
edge of the fact that gold basis for a
monetary system was n trick of the money
breeders to make money scarce and dear
and flesh and blood cheap
Temperance legislation will consist in
every man being prohibitory law unto him
self, and in this way only can that evil that
$50 deeply rooted in the human heart that
lgplSlntiDn rOnnnt rparh II Ia 1,J
and subdued With the amelioration of
poverty through the just distributions of
the enormous profits of labor and the boun-
teous gifts of God the per cent. of criminals |
Will be reduced to the minimum and for |
the few who fall into evil doing because of |
the brute in the family blood that should
have been subdued in their grandfathers
the state will bring all the machinery of |
humane power to defend and improve lust
as 1t now brings its power of law to prose
cute and brutalize, With individual free
dom and the absolute right of the whole |
people to the free use of the earth and its |
resources, slavery and inequality will disap-
pear, one sex will have equal opportunities |
with the other, and woman's dependence, |
the primal cause of mans brutality and
sex slavery, will have become a thing of the |
past.
huIIidBo VIII us HOG SO uluCn u contract |
of flesh legalized for n fee as q union of |
soul sanctified by an approving conscience.
The tendency toward the accumulation of
great wealth in the hands of a few will de
crease in the next century, for the quick
ened conscience and aroused conceptions of
Justice of an intelligent people will class
that man with criminals who holds more
of the worlds gifts than he can possibly
use while his fellow beings want. The
bounties of God shall not be fettered by the
dead, but the earth and the fullness thereof
shall belong in usufruct to the living.
Great corporations and business combines,
which constitute the power of plutocracy,
shall be controlled and dominated by ma
tionalism-the creature shall not be greater
than It's creator. With q government "of
for and by the people," in fact as well as
tradition, the condition of the laboring
classes will be one of comfort and independ-
ence. Three hours will constitute q long
days work and literally furnish infinitely
more of the benefits of civilization and the
comforts of life than sixteen hours slavish
toll will provide today. Opportunity will
thus be given to improve and develop those
God given faculties and aspirations that lie
dormant in every human soul Books and
music, athletic games and mental and phys
ical culture will occupy the time and
thoughts of healthy, happy, godlike peo-
pie who will send out thought messages
from soul to soul, from place to place, as an
arrow flies from the bow of the archer.
Agriculture will be developed by cleo
tricity, the motive power of the future.
Science will take in condensed form from
the rich loan of earth the life force or
germs now found in the heart of the corn,
the kernel of the wheat, the luscious juice
of the fruits. A small phial of this life from
the fertile bosom of mother earth will fur
nish man with subsistence for days, and
thus the problems of cooks and cooking
will be solved. The slaughter Of animals,
the appetite for flesh meat that has left the
world reeking with blood and bestialized
humanity, will be one of the shuddering
horrors of the past Slaughter houses,
butcher shops and cattle pens will be con
verted into conservatories and beds of
bloom. Man and beast will hold life sa-
cred, and the vegetarians Of the next cen.
tury will exclaim with Goldsmith:
No locks that range the valleys free,