Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1893-04-13

Three millions celebrated in 1892, GO 000,-
600 in 1893, and 300, 600 will in 1903 cele-
brate the landing of Columbus. They will
be educated and refined, for the arts and
sciences will be taught in the public schools.
Not only will the mind of the pupil be
trained, but the hand IA well, and each
child will be instructed in the manual Of
tools; they will be instructed in the func-
tions of every part of the human system;
man. know thysef'' will have meaning
in 1893 The economic aud social questions
OF the day will also be taught in the schools;
there will be no uncducated persons to act
us drags on the car Of progress.
The form Of government will be simpler;
the initiative and referendum will prevail,
and lawmakers will not be the autocrats
they now are, for they will truly register
the will of the people; they will not dictate
to them As mt present The commonwealth
will be organized on industrial lines; labor
organizations will have disappeared, for
there will be no longer n necessity for their
existence An ideal democracy will stand
upon the foundations we of 1893 are erect
ing.
Railroads, water courses, telegraphs, telo-
phones pneumatic tubes and all other meth
DDS of transporting passengers, freight and
intelligence will be owned and operated by
the government. The earnings of these
agencies will swell the public treasury.
Homes will flourish, for they will no longer
be taxed Instead CT devoting so much
time and money to the erecting of great
public structures, as at present, the cree
tion and adjournment of the home will re-
ceive first consideration.
Each home will be regarded as Il cUntri-
button to the wealth and beauty of the ma
ton; the earnings of public concerns will
defray the cost of maintaining Streets sew
ers, waterworks and light and heat giving
establishments Cremation will take the
/ place Of the present system Of burying the
/ dead; the living will be healthier, for the
earth will not be poisoned through inter
ment Of infection. The contents of sewers
| will not flow into river and stream to send
| deadly vapors through the air, but will be
utilized to enrich the harvest yielding earth.
! The progress of the lower grades Of ami
NAL life has been skillfully guided and
FASTENED until we may now assert that cat
tie and fowl are approaching perfection. In
| 1893 the same attention will be bestowed on
! the human race, and, instead of rushing
| blindly forward, increasing and multiply
| ing at hapha2ard, humanity will knowing
! ly and utelligently advance to higher alti-
tudes There will be no very rich or very
poor, for long before 1898 dawns upon the
world the industriallsts will have learned
that the raising of large families is but
another way to create slaves to perform the
drudgery OF the wealthy. and the family
will be restricted to the capacity of the par
ents to maintain and educate.
Under such conditions prisons and poor
houses will decline, and divorces will not
be considered necessary. The system which
| makes criminals of men and women and
at the same time makes millonaires of
others will have disappeared. AS conse-
quence the confinement and punishment
of criminals will occupy but little of the
thought or time Of the men Of 1893.
r. V. POWDERLY.