The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-12-15
1.-THE LAST CHRISTMAS Of THE
GOOD OLD NINETEENTH CENTURY,
the Christian World Exmpfbns Its Founders Teachings With Three Million Trained Sol
Rsere-A Progress World Made During Century,
81 Few Predictions for the Coming Hundred

ruin III clash Of warning giants abroad The Union
ended ae Mississippi and it could tell what hostile
power might face it on the western bank.
Today the great world issues have been fought out
and settled The boundaries in quarters have been
fairly drawn The destinies Of have been fxed
is known that English which century ago spoken
by fewer people than French, German Spanish is
to be the dominant language of the EARTH 1t is known
that Russian Is to follow it, and that German is follow
that These are things which the work of the nine
teenth century has settled. They be undone.
And these facts mark out the future Of history
broad and clear
1t would have been hard for any Christmas seer in
the 1900 predict the conditions of today But
look forward with condenceto the Of the world
Christmas Of the year 2OO The currents of destiny
are sweeping forward that cannot be mis-
taken.
hundred years from now international rivalres as
we understand them, will have ended There will be
three great powers the United States, Russia and the
British Empire, and number Of minor All North
America will be part Of the United States all South
America will be dependent upon it, The people of the
Philippines and Of any other islands may have taken
under our flag will be Amercansproud Of their citizen
ship. fs4A
The British Empire will include Australia, and per-
haps all Of Africa. 1t will not include Canada and prob
ably not India Its political of gravity and per-
haps Its capital and Parliament WELL will be in Aus
form.
Russia will probably rule the whole Of Asia, and
Western Europe may be expected to occupy toward it,
some such relation that which Bulgaria now bears
toward Turkey which the Greek cities OF Asia Minor
bore toward the government of the Great King
As the world in the nineteenth century has solved
the problem of producing wealth. the world in the wen
eth may be expected to solve the problem of dstrib
uting it. That is really much the simpler of the two.
In all the history Of mankind, down to the beginning
of the century drawing to an end the problem of
poverty primarily of production. There were
enough things go some peo
pie had go without 1t impossible to make enough
to go around There was only much muscular power
tocGltvatethe ground harvest the crops with sickles
and make Shoes clothes, boards nails and bricks by
hand. If there had been plenty of everything it would
have seemed asimple matter enough that every
body got share
Now We have learned how to produce plenty We
have mastered nature We have harnessed steam cleo
trcity, the catara and the winds Our complaint now
is "overproducticn.n Our trusts regulate prices by
shutting down mills. I'VE say that we have too many
good things.
Under such conditions there is no excuse for failure
of anybody have enough When thcre was an actual
shortage such failure was msfortume when there Is
Ia glut it is crime There will be no empty Christmas
stockings in the year houses where children cry
themselves sleep because Santa Claus has forgotten
hem and where desperate fathers and mothers dread to
look their eager little ones in the face. $3.50
It has been long, weary road that the world has
trodden since that night st Bethlehem road merIt1
often with bloody footprints and sIIcun With heachug
bones But ID !. approechiha the pIea1tul valley - last
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