The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-17

sweat of many men. women and children.
: It's a contamination devoutly to be
wished
Corporations.
Indeed. we can already see signs of
the solution Of this vast and intricate
problem in the experiments being made in
the cooperative plan of distribution of
profits among employers and their en-
ployees, as well as in the various pension
systems being inaugurated by some of the
great railroad companies. Blessed forever
be the name of the man who establishes
Abiding peace and exact Justice between
labor and capital, which should not be
enemies, but should be friends.
"If In this century our aggregate wealth
increases at the rate of the nineteenth,
It will amount to thirteen t%rillion, three
hundred and seventy-five billion dollars
for the comprehension of which stlpendous
sum the mathematical power of the
human mind are utterly unequal.
I'm 1900 we imported almost everything
we used-even bricks-which could not be
produced by farmers. Now we are COM
peting for every species of trade known
among men in every country under heaven
and nave become one of the greatest ex-
porting nations. Within the last few
years we have achieved at a profit the
performance of carrying Goals to New
castle, and the expectation is not too
fanciful for entertainment hat before
the end Of the century America will be
the commercial mistress OF the world.
Destined to Get Canada.
I'm 1900 our territory was circumscribed
by the Atlantic on the east; the Missis-
sippi on the west; the great lakes on the
north, and the Floridas on the south. Now
1t extends from the sunrise side of Porto
Rico on the east to the Lord only knows
where in the west. Long before the twen-
tieth century closes our flag will float IN
triumph from the Rio Grande on the
south to the frozen ocean on the north,
for we are destined to own every foot
of the British North American possess
sions in less thar fifty years.
Truth to tell. IL no antidote Is discov-
cred for our omnivorous appetite for land
and people, long before this young coun-
try is old we will be in the condition OF
the Macedonian, when, drunk with both
wine and victory, he wept because there
were no more worlds to conquer. May we
have a happier end than his
I'm 1900 we were a feeble folk-a fourth
rate power, insignificant lin the worlds
DldTlS ana cdlculdllOIlS. NON VIC SAhh0 a.
| the front rank of nations, and there Il
not a sovereign or premier in Europe who
is not lying awake of nights inducing In
somnia by Fostering his brain to diseoVe'
what we will conclude to do next. A cen
fury hence America will be easily first ant
| other nations scrambling among them
I selves for second place. Uncle Sam ha'
| taken the centre Of the worlds stage, ant
for veal or woe shall hold it until Thu
earth shall perish as a scroll.
I'm 1900 we had no literature worthy o
the name. Easily within the memory o
men now living it was s~neeringly asked
Who reads an American bookY 1t wa
Sidney Smith, of witty and, therefore
blessed memory, who propounded tina
query. Within the last twenty-five year
there have been sold in Europe NOR
copies of General Grants memoirs, of JEFF
ferson Davis's Rise and Fall OF the Con
federacy' and of Blaine's Twenty Year
of Congress- than of any current historical
work by any European.
MARX Twain, Artemus Ward, Bre
Harte, Longfeliow, Poe, Hawthorne
Cooper and Emerson have become Englisl
classics.
ut is not too much to hope that befor'
the twentieth century is ushered in Bos
ton, New York, Washington, philadelphia
Baltimore or st. Louis will be regarded b.
common consent as the literary centre o
the world.
I'm 1900 a majority Of our people coult
not read or write. In 1900 the i~lliterat,
numbered scarcely 10 per cent. OF the whit
population. In the year 1000 there shoult
not be an adult within the broad eonflnel
of the republic not blessed with a knowi
edge of at least the rudiments Of al
education
Intelligent Ballot Reading.
IF l had one prayer for the American
people which could be answered, 1t woult
be that every citizen should possess a
least sufficient education TO read his ballo.
intelligently and enough courage IN elcr
ton day to cast it as becomes a FREE
man. despite all the bosses, 6le-leaders OIL
whip-crackers in the land.
In 1900 churches were Ike angels visits
few and far between. The coming Of d
preacher iuto most communities was the
event of the season. sometimes Of the year
Now preachers are plentiful as berries in
June, and the average American citizel
lives within three miles Of a place OF Wor-
ship, a matter of congratulation, for kim
Solomon says: righteousness cxalteth Il
nation. but sin is a reproach 10 any peo-
pie
y am an optimist and the gospel
preach is the gospel of high hope anC
high endeavor. Better to look upon the
bright side Of things than upon the dark
w have not attained perfection yet.
Utopia is an undiscovered country The
millennium is still out of sight in the
distant future. once In a while, when W.
all get the blues ut once, it appears that
the little season for which the devil is
to be turned loose, is right upon us. The
triumphal car of human progress jolts