Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1893-08-03
VIEW OF THE FUTURE
Trastus Wiman Gives a Cont
mental Scope.
rOHN WANAMAKER'S PREDICTION

,c Thinks the Postal Service VIII lie AL
most Entirely Electrical in 19o3-Bishop
Newman on the Future of uethodism.
Richard Mansfield Foresoes National
Thcater,
Eopyright, 1893, by American Press Associa-
toni
Because there are children now living
who will realize fifty years hence all the
advantages that are likely to occur between
now and then it seems preferable to make
Ia forecast of half n century than of IA whole
century. There is something rc2lizable,
within sight, in fifty years.
Pushing the prospect away II hundred years
seems to make the vision too dim and dis
tant for practical purposes
Up to this period in the history of the
nited States its people have been busy i'll
developing only that within its own bor-
|lers Ever widening areas have given
abundant opportunity not only for the
vast emigration that has reached these
shores, but for the natural increase of pop
llation. The development of natural re-
sources 50 vast and varied have rendered
employment constant and profitable; enor-
lilOuS UuuIllOIS ny tllISIdllOu IdFc pro-
|yided ready made customers on the one
hand and abundant labor on the other
| Everything within the country itself has
contributed to its own progress until now,
at the closing years of its first century of
progress, it has reached a condition at
(which all the world wonders
But with the first fifty years of the new
century these conditions will very mater-
tally change, SO faras the enormous increase
in population is concerned. If the popua-
ion increases at the same relative rate in
the next five decades as in the last fifty
years. the number of people to be sustained
ON this continent will be between 150, 900, 600
land 200 100000. If the field of opportunity
! l. beginning to be limited when the popu-
| lation is less than 900, what will be
he limitations when the population reaches
three times that amount? 1t is no cXtraor-
binary estimate to believe that 195, 600, 600
I Twill need to find employment, need to he
governed, and. above all, need to be fed. be-
fore boys and girls now born will cease to
= live The prospect is rather "A startling one.
. 1t Is particularly so with regard to the
shape that matters are taking as to trusts,
mbinations and consultations. If com
/ petition is to be eliminated, production
regulated aud prices fixed by the few, the
enormous increase in population will find
conditions more extraordinary than ever
anybody dreamed Of If, for instance, coal,
which is the chief factor and force in civ
| ilizaton, should be controlled by ten or a
dozen men, it would compel the govern
ment to take possession of all the coal
lands in order to be sure of supply and free
from interference. Equally so with oil,
with sugar and the thousand other things
now drifting into the control of the few
Sut the tendency in this strange and
rather dangerous direction is likely to be
|rheckcd by the economic revolution re-
GENTLY witnessed in the presidential cleo
|tion. The change which is implied in the
election of Mr.. Cleveland is that an effort
| will be made to build up Il trade other than
that which exists i'll the country itself. 1t
would seem that this change comes at the
ImOst appropriate time and that revolu-
tons resembling special providences come
I only when needed, and when needed their
fleets come to stay.
If the destiny of the country limited its
| operations exclusively to within its own
borders, there would be precious little hope
torthc 20O, 600 that in fifty years are to
be taken care of in this country. But with
the world open as "A field, with taxation re-
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