The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1905-07-07
Don't DOUBT. our PRoGREss.
Modern Miracles With VegetatiOn and
Forms OF Life
New York American

fNGW IOEk AFnGTlCan-I
Somewhere in the body Of some
human being there is lying a germ
that viii produce a brain able to en-
ancipate the whole OF mankind from
all kinds Of slavery except that which
comes wholly from superstition and
ignorance
It wiz be the brain Of a chemist,
not that Of a warrior, a statesman or
an artist
Humanslavery exists because a few
control the necessarfes OF human life
that are indispensable to the multi
tudes
Invent a scheme by which all may
secure the necessaries OF life and
money viii no longer be able to con-
troll the terms on which we must IA
Dor for food, clothes and shelter.
If one by twenty days pleasant
work in the spring and fail could
secure food, clothes and shelter for
the year, it would be hard to induce
him to labor twelve hours a day in
1 the subway or fourteen hours daily
in a sweatshOp.
Is such a thing possible2
/ Certainly, and il is nearer cOnsum-
nation than most Of US imagine.
A hundred thousand Of the great
est men Of the world are working
along the lines Of such a discovery.
and the strides in advance they have
made during the last twenty years
have put behind them a greater space
than remains in front OF them
] Let US glance at a few that have
come to the notice Of the people
through the daily press.
/ Production Of butter or cheese
quintupled by the selection Of suitable
| cows
ChinchOna trees by selection forced
! to yield forty times the normal
amount Of quinine.
/ Wheat and corn forced by selection
to triple the product Of each year.
/ Glover and legumes by incubation
with benign bacilH forced to gather
from the air ten times the usual
amount Of alcohol
( Fruit pests destroyed by other in
sects
Germany, short Of fuel, forces her
soil to produce twice the common
| crop Of potatoes that viii secrete four
times the amount OF alcohol
Meat and other foods saved from
| spelling by the inventions Of Pasteur.
Artificial termination Of marine
| animals by Loeb.
| Percentage Of sugar in cane and
beets multiplied fOurfOld.
Twelve years needed growth Of an
Il
/ by Burbank, the greatest living man,
who, after wasting a life on fruits and
flowers is beginning to devote his gi-
gantic mind to lowering the cost Of
a food supply.
! Greatest Of aIl-the discovery that
an atom is not an atom, but the small
est Of atoms is made up Of zoo cleo
irons and an ion.
A few common elements compose
all things.
We know how to make a beef
steak out Of a barrowful Of dirt and
few tiny seeds. When we can dis
| pense with the aid Of the COW and
make the steak direct out Of the sui
phur, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, phOs-
phOrus and hydrogen that areits chief
elements We Will not have to work in
/ sweatshOps.
When we can make electricity from
common hydrocarbons direct we viii
not have to pay cents for a ride in
the subway.
The secret is almost within our
grasp; 100 or more Of the chemists
| have it nearly within their grasp. 1t
is not a folly, like the philosopher
| stone, but a certainty to those who
have faith.
What will there be left for US when
food and shelter are practically free
| to all?
Plenty
/ There is disease to conquer, vice to
eradicate, pain to eliminate and all
evil to be put out Of the world, and
when that is done no doubt those
who are living viii find something to
be looked after.