Mohave County miner., 1907-05-25
The Times We Live In.

Tho Times we Live In.
 So far as external conditions are con- cerned there is no question that the world as whole is enjoying period of greater freedom from wars and their distressing consequences, of rav- age, plunder and insecurity to the in dividual, than ever before in it's his tory. It is furthermore true that, taken together, citizens and subjects everywhere are freer than at any oth- CT time from tyranny and oppression by their own government, and freer to pursue their avocations without fear of molestation or interference. Besides this larger liberty and security which the people of today enjoy, there has come to them as whole an immense advance in material comfort and in opportunity for education and enjoy ment.
 With improvement of material con- ditions has come growing mental and spiritual unrest and discontent. For generations people lived on quietly and contentedly in that condition of life to which they were taught and believed in had pleased God to call them. They had no religious misgiv- ings or political doubts. Things as they were were ordained from on high, and they never dreamed of questioning or disturbing them.
 While it may be true that such a state of things tended to stagnation of intellect and arrest of progress along every line of possible advance, it was productive of an atmosphere and men, tai attitude that gave tranquil lives and much placid enjoyment and hap piness to large numbers of people.
 Now all is changed. Everything is in Aux and ferment. No system of philosophy is undisputed, no princi- ples of government unquestioned or regarded as permanent or wholly sat isfactory, and no creed as sacred and adequate. This right to property, once supposed to be the foundation of the social order, is denied, the right of man to labor as long and for as much as he pleases is curtailed, indi- vidual initiative and self-reliance are discouraged, and state control and ownership of all industrial activity and distribution advocated. Enter prises of all sorts, commercial, educa- tional, social and religious, are turn ing to the government for guidance and assistance.
 These conditions are indications of wide changes in thought, theory and belief, already accomplished, or now in process of taking place, and neces- sarily imply anything but state of mind promotive of tranquility and con- tentment. Every one wants every thing that he sees any one else have, and rushes into headlong competition to secure it at once. The old idea of competence and contentment has vanished.
 How long this stage of development will continue or what its outcome will be no one can say. Man never is but always to be blessed," and it is not to be supposed that the time will ever come when there will not be some loftier height to climb, some nobler ideal to realize, some far-otf goal to win. Our condition now seems to be one in which we are groping and striv- ing to find new creeds and systems and to make sure that our goals and ideals are worthy and attainable, and that we are on the right road to teach them. Once there comes to us out of all the ferment and uncertainty reas- enable assurance that such is the case we shall doubtless find once more in life more of the serenity, contentment and quiet happiness which it held in earlier times.-Cincinnat Enquirer.
 The Anita Mines Being Worked.