The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-06-23

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 those 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 artisan could
not have made watch for anything
like so little cost The dollar watch
was made possible by machinery 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
little doubt that the separation of the
workman from all voice in the direction
of his labor, caused by the introduce
tion of the modern system, will be mod
fled. The workman will have GER
tain share in the direction of affairs,
and capital will be none the less profit
able because it recognizes that right.
AS the homes of today are fitted up
with scores of factory-made articles
which were unheard of a generation
ago, so the homes of the next genera
tion will be changed by the progress of
industrial art The demand for manu-
featured things win continue to in
crease. Let the doubter think this over
twenty years ago there WASH t such a
thing as a ready-cooked cereal 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 is
grateful, because it 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 only
greatly increased population and wealth
but a greater individual demand for
manufactured articles will be necessary
to sustain the relative Importance of
manufactures. That all of these con-
ditions will be met is as certain as any
thing in future can be.
When the year 2000 comes, the indus
try and trade of this country will be
greater in extent than that of the whole
world toiay-that IS. if we progress
only one-tenth as rapidly in the future
as we have in the past. The waste of
the present methods of manufacture
will be stopped. Principles of economy
will be applied to industry and trans
portation so that there will be no lost
motion.
The industrial world today knows
that ton of coal under gas engine
will give three times as much power as
Iue SAINT LOu u COd1 uItItI a SlCdlh Gil
CINE Yet steam engines still prevail.
The United States of ninety years
hence viii not permit that wasted en-
ergv to float out Of its smoke-stacks.
Every stream in the country with a
sufficient fall of water will be utilized
for the manufacture of electric cur
rent from water power, eliminating the
fuel proposition from large percent
age of the factories of the country.
Transportation will be science nine
tv years hence, instead of the enigma
it is today The railroads will carry
the profitable high-elass freight, while
low-class slow freight viii be transport
ed on inland waterways. The country
confesses today that it does not under
stand the problems of transportation,
but it also announces that is deter
mined to study the subject until it does
understand it. Ninety years will see the
means of transportation separated from
The stock gambling business to be con-
quoted On SOtht' EI1h'APACo Ii "HN -
terest of transportation.
BY the year 1000 the reforested areas
of the country viii be yielding magnif-
cent returns, and the folly of the reck-
less denudation of the mountains will
have been expiated and atoned for. A
system will be in force by which the
forests will furnish each year suf-
fcient amount of lumber for necessary
uses. the while restoring itself auto
matica,Iv. About that time the ques-
tion of opening the government fuel
deposit reserves viii be a live topic,
and the wisdom of the policy of con-
servation of natural resources will be
proved.
Members of Congress viii read from
Photographic copies of the newspapers
of 1908 the accounts of the meeting of
the Governors at the White House in
the administration of President Roose-
welt. They will praise the men who
participated and call them blessed. At
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