Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-07

iho toi-sledHl neat and the steel
trust were alike undreamed of ninety
years ago. Perhaps you or your little
son has a dollar watch. The men who
work in the factory where these
watches. are made get higher wages
than the matchmaker of the first OF the
century. Yet no one OF them could
make a whole watch. The Individual.
for anything like so little cost. The
dollar watch was made possible by ma
chinery and collective industry.
The progress of this development Is
by no means completed. The changes
OF the coming nine decades will be
many and wonderful. There can be lit
tie doubt that the separation OF the
workman from all voice in the direction
of his labor. caused by the introduction
of the modern system, will be modified.
The workman will have O certain share
In the direction of affairs, and capital
will be none the less profitable because
1t recognizes that right.
AS the homes of today are fitted up
with scores of factory-made articles
which were unheard of generation
ago. so the homes of the next genera
tion will be changed by the progress
of industrial art. The demand for
manufactured things will continue to
increase Let the doubter think this
over-twenty years ago there wasn't
such a thing as ready cooked break
fast food. Today the money spent for
advertising by the ready-cooked food
Is more than the amount paid for all
uncooked cereal breakfast foods con-
sumed then.
The promise of increased demand 10
grateful because 1t Is only upon that
basis that the manufacturing interests
can hope to keep up with the march
Of progress predicted for the remainder
OF this century. If the development
should be in the same ratio as the
growth of the last fifty years the fac
tories of the United States would have
an output many times greater than
that of the whole world today. Not
onlv greatly increased population and
wealth but a greater individual de-
mand for manufactured articles will be
necessary to sustain the relative inn
portance of manufactures. That all OF
these conditions will be met Is as cer-
tain as anything in future can be.
When the year 1000 comes the indus
try and trade of this country will be
greater in extent than that of the whole
world today. That Is, IL we progress
only one-tenth as rapidly in the future
as we have in the past The waste OK
the present methods of manufacture
will be stopped. Principles OF economy
will be applied to industry ana trans
portation, so that there will be no lost
The Industrial world today knows
that q ton of coal under a gas engine
will give three times as much power as
the same ton of coal under steam en-
gine. Yet steam engines still prevail.
The United states of ninety years hence
will not permit that wasted energy 10
float out of its smokestacks. Every
stream in the country with sufficient
fall of water will be utilized Tor the
manufacture of electric current from
water power, eliminating the fuel prop
osition from a large percentage or the
factories of the country.
TRANSFORMATION will be science nine
ty years hence, instead of the enigma 1t
is today. The railroads will carry the
profitable high-class freight, while low
class slow freight will be transported
on inland waterways. The country con-
fesses today that 1t does It understand
1t. Ninety years will see the means OF
transportation separated from the stock
gn,nbling business to be conducted on
sound principles in the interest OF
Nv the wear 1000 the reforested areas
of the country will be yielding mag
nificent returns, and the folly OF the
reckless denudation of the mountains
for. A system will be in force by
which the forests will furnish each
year a sufficient amount of lumber for
necessary uses, the whole restoring
itself automatically. About that time
the question of opening the govern
ment fuel deposit reserves will be a
live topic, and the wisdom of the pol
lev of conservation OF natural re-
sources will be proved.
Members of congress will read from
photographic copies of the newspa-
pers of 1908 the accounts of the meet
ing of the governors at the Wnite
House in the administration OF Presi-
dent Roosevelt. They will praise tie
men who participated and call them
blessed. At the same time, no doubt,
they will comment on the fact that the
poor quality of paper used in 1908 re-
suited fifty years ago In the necessity
of photographing the files In the con-
gressional library before 1t was too
late. They will then refer to the ex-
cellent condition of the newspapers OF
1908, with their strong paper and ex-
cellent ink. Not all of the processes Of
the modern system Of manufacture
are superior to the ,old-fashioned way,
But long before the year 1000 the news
papers will be printed on paper made
from cotton stalks or corn stalks, or
some other plant which can be grown
as an annual crop.
The effect of new and unindtcatoi
changes in industry cannot be esti-
mated, but IL present conditions are
carried forward to their natural re-
suits the Industrial life of the full
grown America will be wonderful be-
yond the grasp of our imaginattons.
The next ten years promise to bring
forth things that will materially affect
our destinies The future of American
industry is assured-the growing pains
we are having now will not last long.
Copyright. 1908, by Frederic J. Haskin.)
Tomorrow-when America is Crown
Education.