The true northerner., 1901-01-11

about what they cost in the small
household But there Is the rub. What
the multitude pays for can be furnish
ed cheaper than that which falls upon
few pockets.
Growth In population greases the
wheels of progress. Two schools and
two churches soon take the place OF
one, and each school and church Is
spurrcd to do It's best and not fall be-
hind the advancing tastes of the peo-
pie. One of the marvellous creations OF
the nineteenth century is the city on
the plains or beyond the Rockies where
the most cultivated eastern man feels
perfectly at home, missing nothing in
the way of refined environment. The
new century cannot add this sensation
to American life. but it can and will
multiply cities of the kind until the
terms great centers Of wealth." great
centers of culture" great centers OF
refinement" have no meaning. The
Columbian fair Of 1892 may be held in
some city which now has no existence
and its creators be men engaged in the
most prosaic and commonplace voca-
king and financing. transporting and
mining be settled in vulgar ruts, at
tracing only the lowest order of tai
ent. The problem then will be TO feed
the 4O0,000,000 of people, to cheaper
the price OF corn" to make ten BUSH
els grow where now one is talked about
as marvellous productiveness.
New Ideals For Man.
Overpopulation is not among the pos
sible evils of the twentieth century.
China supports 4O0,000,000 souls upon
an area no larger than that Of the
United States, and it is declared that
the Chinese do not begin to utilize the
resources nature has given them.
| Doubtless the American Of the future
will slow up the pace of gastronomic
indulgence. This will not be a matter
Of necessity so much as Of common
sense. 1t is Il waste of energy TO have
TO digest more than is needed for food,
so that gluttony is double waste.
Men Will look closely after their health,
and when they do that the first act will
be TO lop off some of the good things of
the table. Sickness and death are no
longer laid to Providence, but to pre-
vcntible causes in all except certain
eases, as, for instance. accident and old
age. Since man was put here TO work,
he naturally thinks the necessary stam-
ina was given him to fill the bill. In
these strenuous days there are some
who prefer TO 90 the pace and take the
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tieth century may not be found worth
the sacrifice of health and existence.
Philosophers generally incline to the
notion that the average is the highest
type Of life and the most desirable. 1t
may be attained by the mass and main
tanned indefinitely.
The more one dips into the future,
reasoning from the facts and tenden-
cics OF this time. the more it seems GER
tain that the problem of the twentieth
century viii be man and not matter.
If there IS any logic in the thing called
progress. it points clearly 10 the de-
velopment of new ideals. For what
purpose are abundance and power stor-
ed in nature if not for the good of all
mankind. and why are they but slow
ly unfOlded if not 10 keep pace with
mans capacity and need? The right
to share in moldng their political des
tinies has been fought for and won
| by the people. The thirst for knOwl-
edge and the hunger for means to feed
the intellectual tastes have been held
in check during the struggle of society
TO get control into its own hands.
The Toiler's Millennium.
The queries, What have we fought
forE" and What have we toiled forY'
are natural. The question is up for
settlement. and the people are asking,
what is there i'm 1t for us?" When
| fighting and toll were the chief busi-
ness Of mankind. life did not seem
worth living and the struggle for sur
vival worth keeping up. The fighting
and toillng phases have had their day
in America. The wilds are all explored
and conquered. The spelling book and
the newspaper are everywhere; also
the taste for white bread and the fash
ion for boiled shirts. as well rs the
means for indulging In them. OF what
use is the newspaper if the reader
cannot see something of the life It
tells him about? or what good the
boiled shirt if its owner cannot in all
things come up to the plane which it
is supposed 10 adOrn?
Wise men everyWhere-in the pulpit,
in the sanctum and in halls of author
ity-are wrestling with the universal
cry Of More, more Of everything"
The rational man does not shout
BREAD or blood! but he does turn
away when Il stone is offered him and
rests his longing eyes upon the bread
lying unused all about him. lie wants.
his full share i'm the Inheritance nature
plus his own toll has piled up for him.
Nothing short Of a social cataclysm can
prevent his getting il in the twentieth
century.
The wOrkingman in America today
has more of the creature comforts and
greater intellectual range than the NV
erage English nobleman Of the Eliza
bethan age. But this is no argument
that he should be content. In his four