Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1906-06-08
THE WORLD BETTER.

Journal.
Neither tainted mes', nor tainted
money, nor Standard OIL rebates, nor
railroad termination, nor insurance
graft, nor political corruption, nor ape.
cial privilege, nor yellow journalism,
nor MONOPOLY pricea, nor closed doore,
nor unfair competition, nor overcapi.
taIization, nor stock jobbery, nor
bombs, nor lynch law, should blind us
TO this fact
The world is better II lie better
than il was a thousand years ago, or a
hundred years, or fifty years, or even
one year ago. It would not be diff.
cult for al expert commission 10 IS
tahllsh that fact. l. 10 plessanter and
safer 20 live In Life in il is fuller
and swee'er and truer and more use.
iul Opportunity for ambition and en-.
tsrprise and service was never so
grand as il is now. T1ere is more
neal,h, more sanitary protection
against disease. more scientific treat.
ment OF the insane ard afflicted ,
more regard for the poor, better
wages, shorter hours Of labor, aud
finer tenements for the woFkmen.
The world has been brought closer
together Commerce has made the
globe n neighborhood There 10 a
keener sense OF brotherhood between
d fierent peoples and nations. Crime
mas been made more difficult, and war
lees frequent. Travelling hrs been
made n pleasure, a means OF Fecrea-
ton Cities are safer TO live in, and
the country has been rescued from IT.
loneliness by telephones, trolleys and
good roads. We have letter food
better clothes, better houses, better
schools and better churches, and more
hospitals and institutions OF charity,
science and reform, than ever before
in al the history OF the world, Never
did women hold so exalted position
in the life OF the world as today, and
never were the rights OF children, for
both education ard play, so safeguar1-
ed Books have become the common
possession OF the multitude. The
press, with all iu shortcomings. WA
never 30 truly the vehicle OF truth a.
now. Society, with all its gross er-
uAvagancet add display, was never 90
tree from impurl,y and reckless disrc-
gard OF the rights OF others a. il ia TO-
day In business when was there a
time when the involabiliiy Of con.
tract WAS held in higher regard when
was the oral promise, never broken. so
universally the basis OF transactions
In the great markets?
Modern commerce, carried on by
banks and corporations, has indeed
developed new modern Gins OF tyre
not known 10 our ioreiathep But,
how msrvelolsly sensitive has become
the modern conscience 10 these new
,n', how quick tho disclosure, how
swift The condemnation 10y puolc
opinion
II ever you are overV helmed in pes
smism 10y the mack rake revelations.
open the hooks NJ history and bio
graphy. study ,he conditions exist.
ing when yolr father and his father.
and fathers father, lived. Take note
oi how much better oG you are than
your ancestors and then do your pArt
To make the word still better for those
who come after you. Remember, also.
how fast progress = made nowadays
The thousand years that are ~ one
day" have become y. even ouc hour.
Fhc magazine muck rAkcp failed u
discover the rich bed which the Inter.
S,A,r Commerce Commission has lust
uncovered m ,, investigation oi the
prnnsylvan,S and the Baltimore and
Oh,o companies NO doubt they Nil
k,ck thrmsr.vr, Ia, they will have
the consolation ~ tnowiuG that the
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