Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-03-31

t1lltOdU0 0x1Q V0leSI0pu0 Will Ue OWQeQ 8QQ
managed by the state or that the railroads
and telegraphs will own and manage the
state.
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 a cf!max some
where within the present century. The
present b.lsis of money IL satisfactory nci-
ther 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 he 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 IL delusion and u snare the good will
unite In thorouyhgoing. radical, prohib-
itory law.
The punishment of criminals, It seems to
me, will hc b,scd more and more upon the
effort to reform rather than to infiict pen
atty. Capital punishment will be abol-
tshed. 1t has now already collapsed. We
had 1000 murders last year and less than
100 legal executions. The sentiment of the
tA}SC ~ 0SShiuSU ~, dllu uullldu lllG Su1cIS III
consequence. The only remedy seems to be
to substitute life imprisonment and make
the execution of law u practical certainty
upon the guilty.
Our divorce laws must become uniform
not only i'll America, but there must he in
the future I'M adjustment of the principle
of the home life international. All inter
national law is founded on the monogamic
rrn,sr of cocintv, If Nfv noooov, fo;i.,
secure a 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
tions.
The tendency for ae accumulation Of
wealth in II few hards must continue to
increase until overturned by u social rcvo-
luton that will make such an increase an
impossibility. That revolution is certain
to be accomplished within less than fifty
years.
Great corporations and vast business ag
gregntions will continue to grow greater
until in their overshatlowing power they
dispute the authority of the state. and, like
tho railroads and te!cgr.phs, will he ab-
sorbetl by the state. This tendency is over
whelming, and there is ,ls yet developed no
cOuntercurrent to interfere with it's In
evitable 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 IL question
of time when this tendency to ccEtm!iza-
tion and absorption will become universal
in all industries, and can only end in the
destruction of competition, the establish
ment of n monopoly-and the state is the
only power that has the right to run a mo-
nopoly. This tendency seems to make the
naturalization of industry the certain goal
of the future
The condition of the laboring classes is
certain to become more independent ns
they are better educated and learn their
rights and duties.
Our soil is capable of producing abundant
food for the world in 1863, but the methods
of agriculture must and will be improved,
else the present population with it's natural
increase could not be sustained in 1898.
Within the next century law will be sim
piitietl and brought within the range of the
common people, and the occupation of ftwo-
thirds of the lawyers will be destroyed. At
present law is a stupendous swinlle. 1t is
beyond the possibility of any mortal man
it matters not how transccndcnt his genus
Ito know what the law is in America This
has produced such confusion already that q
revolution in law is inevitable. Medicine
will attain the dignity of IL science, having
passed through the period OF preliminary
experiment. Theology will become mora
Simple and central in its practical aims
Traditionalism will died hard, but it viii.
surely die.
American literature will tell the story Of
American life. and will therefore be born
within the next century.
The sphere of music in tho church, in the
world, will be enlarged to tho blessing of
the race. The drama must be born again
or rot of it's 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 revolutionizcd that
men may be trained for their work in the
industrial world.
Dress must conform more to common
sense and less to idiotic whim.
transportation in our great cities will be
controlled by the cities themselves, and
sanitary improvements will become a reli.
gious work.
Woman will attain her status of equality
before the law.
The servant problem is part of the great
social problem and can be solved only in
the adjustment of society under truer CON
ditions.
Inventions and discoveries in mechanics
and industrial arts will themselves form in
their enlargement the basis of the new
society which will be evolved in the new
century. Pneumatic transportation AS we'll
rs aerial navigation seems to be certain in
the next twenty-five years.
The race will be both handsomer and
happier than it now is.
The greatest city will he in America. Its
location will he dependent upon the tlevel-
opment of transit facilities If the freight
of the world must be moved over wate,-
ways. as ut present, through the next cen.
tury. that city will be on the Atlantic
coast. If water transportation loses it's i'm
portance, the great city of the world may he
developed in the interior. This does not
seem to bc probable.
The American now living who will be
most honored in 1893 is that man who is
most abused by the men of his generation
ard yet who lives the truth in the noblest
aud trucst ways.
THOMAS DIXON, JR.
A WOmnn's View.