The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-01-06

A hundred years hence few children
now living may look back with wo3lder5
ment at the narrowness of the compre-
hension of even great political parties.
VINO sought to restrict the opera tons
| OF the continent so vast in its forces
| to the sole development of trade within
! itself.
$50. $50, !.
In 1000 philanthropy will. be practical
| instead of sentimental Aid to the poor
IS OFTEN wasted, except that it, may re-
| lleve immediate restitution. But relief
can be extended and the, reeipiei,t made
| TO pay for it in labor and feel that it
is not altogether charitable gift. g.
The manifest destiny of the United
! States is to dominate the American Eerni-
sphere, not by political intrigue, diplo9
! matte shrewdness nor the force of armsg
not by the annexation of territory for
! the establishment of protectorates but
| by the influence OF example and COM
mercial relations.
There is a spirit of independence in
| every human being, manifested in. the
common repugnance to going to the
poorhouse-' People will suffer rather
than make their poverty Known There
will be less poverty in 1900 than -new, but
where it is found the relief will be ex-
tended in a practical manner.
There will be new kinds of nuts to
crack hundred years from now ana
the old kinds will be made better, Trees
will have been a larger size and earlier
maturity aud with finer grain if desired.
| They will he dWarfed, too, for house
plants and bear diminutive flowers and
fruit. Grating of many varities on one
stem will be common.
New fruits, flowers and plants will be
developed, and old varieties improved.
Trees will be improved and trained into
artistic shapes. Wild fruits and plants
from other lands will be found in
American orchards to help swell the va
riety and luxury Of the American table
in 1000. There Will be new vegetables,
too, and present varieties will be I'M
proved in flavor and size
Sociology has established the fact that
there is a certain happy medium in hui
man life, a point where Numerically
opposed and variouSly divergent condt-
tons meet and mutually adjust them
selves. This common ground, this CEN
trail and equi-distapt point, this average
Of conditions, represents the greatest
good of the greatest number, and each
year the people of the United States, as
a mass, are centering about it.
The Americans will create drama as
artistic, as perfect and of as great an
influence as that which characterized the
national drama of France. The fndic2-
lions all point that way. Hitherto we
| have had almost distinctively no Ameri-
| can drama. We have had artists. some
| of whom were quite as impressive and
| talented as some of those who have made
the fame of the French stage, but no
| great plays.
Science and its applications will be
taught largely in theatrical way, and
we will see advertisements of theatrical
| agricultural, theatrical geology, theatri-
| cal botany. Plants will spring UP on the
stage. and in a few minutes reach old
age and die in the frosts of an artificial
autumn. Geological epochs will pass
| before the eyes of those who would think
world thoughts, while the ways and
methods of the planetary system will be
| shown on the stage.
| Our average morality, our average in
| teiligence, our average comfort, our av-
erage benevolence, are all better than the
world has ever seen before, and the
| standards of all are steadily advancing
from generation to generation, and by
! 1000 there will be less selfishness and a
universal extending of the genuine
| glad hand" We are advancing as rap
| idly as the law of progress of incommen-
| surably great bodies permits, but the
! century before us will be one of marvels
| as compared with the wonderful century
| now behind US.