The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1893-09-08
THE WORLD Will WAC.
Ano Our Descendants Will En-
JOY Great Advantages in 1903.
MRS. LEASE SEES A ROSY FUTURE.

vAoW-Ine conquest OF the Elements
VIII He Continued.
Copyright, 1893 by American Press Assoc. a.
tion.l
Victor Hugo, whose birthday France has
made q national holiday, prophesying of
the future, said: I'm the Twentieth CEN
fury war will be deadl Royalty will be
deadl Famine will be dead, but the people
will ivei For all humanity there will be
but one country, that country the whole
earth; for all the people one hope, that hope
all heaveni" When we contemplate 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 we'll ex-
claim, Ear hath not heard, eye hath not
seen, nor hath 1t 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 canmbafism 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 inauguratedl
The completely 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 a darker past, fetch
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 a gold basis for a
monetary system was a 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
sell, and In this way only can that evil that
Is deeply rooted in the human heart that
legislation cannot reach 1t be controlled
and subdued. With the amelioration of
poverty through the just distributions of
the enormous profltsof 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 just
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-
peax, one sex will have equal opportunities
W1th the other, and woman's dependence,
the primal cause of mans brutality and
sex slavery, will have become thing of the
past.
Marriage will be not so much a contract
Of flesh legalized for fee as q union Of
soul sanctified by an approving conscien ce.
The tendency toward the accumulation of
great wealth in the hands Of 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 aud 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 government ''of,
Tor and by the people," In fact as well as
tradition, the condition Of the laboring
Glasses will be one Of comfort and independ-
epce. Three hours will constitute 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 win 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 Conservatives 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 hocks that range the valleys free,
To slaughter condemn;
Taught by that power that pities me,
learn TO pity them.