The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-04-23
SALTWATER MINNESOTA, APRIL %, 1896.

and progressive spirit of productive
energy will be grated the best fruits
of human activity ito the higher civ
ilizaton that is to mold a better, purer
and nobler brotherhood of man.
The trend of modern thought is to-
ward a widening of knowledge of
social conditions and the application
of remedial measures for the mitiga-
ton of the evils attending the fierce
struggle for existence in this age of
competition and strife. In the in
dustrial and sociological field of en-
deavor the full intellectual strength of
the brightest minds of the future will
be directed to amend the inequalities
of life and restore the balance of hope
and promise that birth gives to man.
The industrial world is ripe for reform
and probably in no other avenue
touched by the reformative hand of
the future will the results be more far
reaching than the elevation Of the
breadwinners of the world to realiZa
ton of the dignity of their proper
sphere in life.
The abolition of child labor, the
ameliOration of the worst features of
the factory system, the dissemination
of an intelligent understanding be-
tween capital and labor as a check-re
on strikes and violence, the breaking
of the power of conspirators and spec
uIators to enhanceithe price of neces-
sites to their own profit at the expense
Of both producer ind consumer, the
rectifcation of the evils resulting from
an overcrowding of the great cities,
the disposition of the tramp question,
the recognition Of the Magdalens and
the raising of the Ishmaels of society
are few of the more important in
dustrial and sociological problems that
thenineteenth will pass to the twentieth
century for solution AS result of
the adoption of some Of the best fea-
lures of modified socialism, govern
mental control of railroad and tele-
: graph lines may be looked for in the
future. The vast and increasing i'm
: portance of the transportation interest
/ of the country, with the opportunities
it affords for the Capitalization of
power and wealth in the hands of the
few, and the dictation of its policy by
/ home and foreign spectators for their
3 own ACKNOWLEDGEMENT is gradually de.
veloping a sentiment calling for its
;, removal to the same position occupied
: by the postal service.
f The negro problem, as now under
J, stood, must form one of the leading
), questions of the future AS race
| distinct and impossible of amalgama
f ton, possessing all the rights guaran
! teed by the organic law and compris
t ing, as they do, one-seventh of the
d population, their claims for recogni
J ton cannot be ignored. Viewed as ;
;. race question and considering the ne
f gro as dependent creature, it is NJ
:, SANDER on the colored race, to asser
a that it is psychological impossibilit.
y for the Ethiopian to think, feel ant
s act with the same conception of under
a standing and moral finesse of natur
l. that characteriZes the Caucasian from
g all other divisions of mankind. Civil
re ization civilizes by slow degrees, no
IT jumps, and it's present standard ha
# heen evolved from ages of STRUGGLE tn
If white race have waged with superst
v ton, ignorance, bigotry and oppres
g sion, each victory establishing som
t, truth and each truth transmitting
" right. The Caucasian, of every rae
l. and cline, has, behind him, long lis
le of saints, poets, soldiers, heroes an
le heroines in every walk of life, as a
inspiration to his convictions and
IN veil to hide the crimson blush {
lg shame. The Ethiopian, as race will
TX out history, literature or defined n;
er tionality, has nothing to refer to br
I'd dark train of ignorance, degradatio
u and servitude, bare of everything tn;
I'd enthuses the heart, with nothing
er exalt, nothing to ennoble. AS educ
he ton and intelligence fastens it's lessor
IT. on the human mind dispelling tt
We short-sightedness of prejudice and u