The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-06-07

ARE 10000 other desks just like yours.
Ninety years ago your desk would
nave been made by your own cabinet
maker at the village wood shop. The
radiator. steam heat and the steel trust
were alike undreamed of ninety ycars
Iago. Perhaps you or Your little son
has dollar watch. The men who work
in the factory where those watchcslarc
made get higher wages than the watch
maker OF the first of the century Yet
no one OF them could make whole
watch. The individual artisan could
not have made watch for anything
Hike so little cost. The dollar watch
was made possible by machinery and
collective industry.
Tho progress of this development is
lby no. means completed The changes
lof the coming nine decades Will be
lmany and wonderful. There can be
little doubt that the separation OF the
workman from all voice in the direc-
ltion OF his labor, caused by the intro
lduction OF the modern system, will be
modified. Tho workman Will have a
certain share In the direction of affairs.
and capital Will be none the less profit
able because 1T recognizes that right.
lup with scores of factory made articles
which were unbeard OF generation
ago. so the homes of the next genera
ton Will he changed by the lprogress
i of industrial art. The demand for man
iufactured things Will continue TO in
lcreasc. Let the doubter think this
lover-twentv years ago there wasn't
isuch a thing as a ready-cooked cereal
1 spent for advertising by the ready
cooked food is more than the amount
paid for all uncooked cereal breakfast
foods consumed then.
The promise of increased demand Is
grateful because 1t IL only upon that
| basis that the manufacturing inter
lests can hope TO keep up with the
march OF progress predicted for the
remainder of this century. III the de-
tselopment should be In the same ratio
las tho growth of tho last fifty years.
the factories OF tho United states would
have an output many times greater
than that of the whole world to-day.
Not only greatly increased population
land wealth. but a greater individual
demand for manufactured articles, viii
he necessary to sustain the relative inn
lportance of ma nufactures. That all of
these conditions Will be met is as Ger
tain as anything in future can be-
/ When the year 5000 comes the in
tbe greater in extent than that Of the
whole world to-day--that is, II we pro-
tgress only one-tenth as rapidly In tho
future as we have in the past The
/ ufacturl Will be stopped. Principles Of
lecorsqmy will he applied to industry
and transportation so that there viii
be no lost motion.
! The Industrial world to-day knows
that a ion OF coal under a gas engine
iwill give three times as much power
as the same ton of coal under steam
Iengine. Yet steam engines still pre-
vail The United States of ninety years
4 hence will not permit that wasted en-
crgy TO float out OF it's smoke-stacks.
Every stream in the country with q
lsufficient fall of water Will be utilized
for the manufacture of electric cur
rent from water power eliminating the
fuel proposition from large percent
.Iage of the factories of the country.
Transportation will be a science
NINETY years hence. instead OF the
Ienigma it is to-day. The railroads will
carry the profitable high-rlass freight,
while low-class slow freight viii be
transported on inland waterways. The
country confesses to-day that It does
mot understand the problems of trans
Iportation. but 1t also announces that
lit Is determined to study the subject
,funtil II does understand 1t. Ninety
years will sec the means of Transport
ritation separated from the stock ganib-
ling business to be conducted on sound
principles in the interest Of transpor-
ttation.