Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-01-01

weakening. and the brightest thinkers
believe that the federation of religious
bodies upon some common platform will
surely be brought about.
The problem of capital and labor re-
| mains to be worked out, but the two
have been brought into such close rela-
tons, and each has become so wholly
dependent upon the other in the col
ossal enterprises of these times that the
adjustment will be made without shock.
man of the nations" step forward and
take up his world work unhampered by
the old cry of splendid isolation and
America for Americans.
The past century was the age of
steam. but that age is over Electricity
has not yet supplanted it in the full
sense. still that event is SO very near
at hand that a few years will see it
realized
OF the race problem. DR.. Henry Da-
Ves. of Harvard, said last month:
The next century will witness much
greater harmony among the races of
mankind. China stands at present prac-
tically alone versus the world. The race
problem is very acute in this country,
but it is much nearer solution than we
SllDDOSe
undertakings in this connection is the
speedy construction of railway from
Montreal to Cape Horn corresponding
to the Cape to Cairo" railway of the
English in Africa. Nothing promotes
harmony and union among the races
like travel. This country should. there
fore, for the sake of this harmony Sc
cure the coatrol of the Nicaragua canal
and push the work there with ali speed.
The critical point in the future will be
in Central America.
Following this harmony. and condi-
toned upon it there will come the CO.
operative social state. AS applied to
economic reform this implies. of course,
the removal of all restriction to indus
trial freedom and the equality Cf OPP
portunity in all the means of production
and in the distribution of wealth. This
Will be necessity so far the United
States concerned. For the popula-
ton of this country WILL at the present
rate OF increase. be 500, 900 in 1893.
If the wealth increases at the same "a
ito (Which is not likely on account of
depletion in raw materals) there would
soon he anarchy under the competitive
system. The universally of education
will make the competitive principle in
any department of human affairs an in
suit to the enlightened inteligence
Socialism is the next great political
creed to occupy our attention. and the
central problem in this creed is the
question of the distribution of wealth.
Hopeful signs are abroad that this prob
lem will be solved peaceably in the
slow evolution of things. Witness the
cases of Mrs. Stanford and Mrs. Hearst
as We'll as Carnegie's declaration that
wealth should be spent in public bene-
faction.
The next century is to be an era of
moral power. The passing century was
an era of material or physical power
| think that education will be more
moral than intellectual. Public schools
will, therefore. teach manners and the
right life quite as earnestly as they now
teach the three RS. Politics will be
studied as a branch of applied ethics
and our young men will seek q career
as politicians With the regularity that
they now show in seeking a career in
business. I look for less science. and
more moral beauty in the future.
FINALLY. we have a right to believe