The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-03-17
IN the Days of Our Grandchildren.

The city OF the next century cannot
send its unfortunates out on the land.
She must take care of them. She will
need their labor in days of prosperity,
and in hard times she must find sufficient
employment to tide them over, within her
own borders And at all times she must
give them that oversight, and opportun-
| ity for education in mind and morals,
which wilr enable them to rise to re
spectacle places among the middle and
upper classes.
Wireless telephone and telegraph cir
cults will span the world A husband
in the middle of the Atlantic will be
able to converse with his wife sitting
in her parlor in Chicago, st. Paul or San
Francisco. We will be able to telephone
to China quite as readily as We now
| talk from st. Paul to Minneapolis New
York to Brooklyn or San Francisco to
Oakland. BY an. automatic signal they
will connect with any circuit in their
locality without the intervention of a
''hello girl
Winter will be turned into summer and
night into day by the farmer, In cold
weather he will place heat-conducting
electric wires under the soil of his gar
den and thus warm his growing plants.
He will also grow large gardens under
glass. At night his vegetables will be
bathed in powerful electric light serving,
like sunlight, to hasten their growth.
Electric currents applied to the soil viii
make valuable plants grow larger and
faster and will kill troublesome weeds.
Rays of colored light will hasten the
growth of many plants. Electricity APP
piled to garden seeds will make them
sprout and develop unusually early.
The future of music in the United
States is assured. This is going to be a
great music-loving nation. 1t is thus
even today; but there Is to be an appre-
ciative and understanding love. There
will be great composers, great artists,
great singers, who will receive most
generous support from the people. The
strides of musical development have been
prodigious during the past quarter of g.
century. If we keep on, this will be a
nation In which exquisite melody and
glorious harmony will express the artfs-
tic, truth that is in music to a people
capable Of compromising it; and by
1000 the United States will be the great
est music-loving and music-producing
nation on earth.
The colored people will increase IN
numbers, and there may be states in the
South where the population will be ex-
clusively black. A better understanding
will exist between whites and blacks,
/ and therefore the race problem in 1000
will not be one Of as much concern to
philanthropists as it is today At the
close Of the Civil war the rroblem was
one Of large body. At the close of the
nineteenth century it showed that evolu-
ton was taking hold, and widely separat-
ed classes had been developed It was
slow at first. but it is becoming most
apparent, especially in the cities This
evolution will progress faster and faster
as the years SO by. The better element
will rise higher and the dregs will settle
lower. A generation is short time upon
which to base accurate conclusions; but
that a wide differentiation exists cannot
be questioned. The clearage is encouraged
by new conditions.