The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-01-12

/ will be altogether humanitarian. Men.
who do nothing with moderation, will be
seized by the madness, the fury, of loving
each other. Clearly this will not march
by itself all at once. There will be mis-.
understandings, perhaps bloody ones. We
have been SO trained to hate each other,
sometimes even by those who had re-
ceived the mission to teach us to love each
other. But, as il is evident that this great
law of brotherhood must be accomplished
some day, | am convinced that the time is
beginning when we shall will irrisistibly
that it should be-"
Good Old Times VIII Return.
Paul Bourget, who came back from
America to be made an academician,
although he is fashionable novelist, APP
pears to see the good time coming in a re-
turn to what was good in the past. II
have understood that tho life of the man
who says i know nothing. and, knowing
nothing, do what pleases me- is at once
empty and full of disillusions; l have I'M
derstood that, speaking thus, a man ex-
ercises n detestable influence over the life
of others, especially over the life of
women. l have come to recognize that
the men and the women who follow the
precepts of religion are in n great proper
ton sheltered from tho moral disorders
which l have described in my romances,
which Octave Feuillet. Tolstoi, and SO
many others have shown in their works,
and which are next to inevitable when
men allow themselves to be guided by
their senses, their passions, and their
weaknesses" Emile lola looks at things
in a different way. The coming century
belongs to labor, and we already see in the
rise of socialism the shadow of the social
law of tomorrow, that law of labor for
all, labor that regulates and makes peace
full. What a great n healthy society will
be a society to which each member brings
his consistent portion of work! A man
that works is always good. And L am
convinced that the only faith which can
save us is the belief in the efficacy of duty
DONE"
Charles Dupuy, the present primo min
lister of France, looks forward to the next
century as a time when all Frenchmen
shall be content with the republic. "What
shall we see tomorrow? We shall see all
Frenchmen, who owe themselves entirely
to their country, no longer sulking at our
institutions. 1t would be strange to think
that half of France should lie fallow with
out profit for the whole country. The re-
public is the property of no one. 1t is the
common good of all tho world" The
editor of the Figaro, whose influence has
been as great as that of many prime min
listers, is more skeptical, yet not without
a measure of French gayety. Tho pres
ent time. in spite of all progress and all
the facilities of modern life, is not so gay
as the past. l believe that the future will
prove still more tiresome, at least for the |
dainty and the sensitive. There will be
certainly less art and less refinement. |
Men will think less, but they will act and |
produce more, beyond doubt. There will |
be fewer wretched ones, materially. but,
morally, there will be as many and per- |
haps more, without speaking of those |
simply discontinued. Yet let the dream |
ers be comforted; roses shall bloom for |
over"