The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1911-12-30
EO|S0N'S PROPHECY.

lhoHlaS "A. EuISOu recently naOt
the prediction that 1t is only s
question of time, when the airshiI
VIII supplant the steamship az 3
swift, safe and practical medium
of trans oceanic travel. Az re
tlectiDg the market change thai
has occurred within recent years In
the popular belief in mans ability
to accomplish the seemingly i'm
possible. it is significant that 10
one d;s-tnts FROM the "wizard's'
picture of our future means If 10.
cOmO,iOn.
Yesterday. such q prophecy
would have been laughed to sccrn;
today we not only accept it NJ
within the realm Of probability
but look ahead to the day whei.
the big leviathau of the air will
replace, not only the steamship,
but the railroad as well, for ali
forms Of transportation. For the
well meaning clergymen and
church people who denounced Bel
Franklin from their pulpits AZ u
usurper Of the Divine prerOgativr,
because be showed his fellow
c0untrymeD, how by means of y
lightning rod they cDuld protect
their lives and their property, W.
have nothing but city.
Thomas jefferson tells 10 bis
memoirs of one of his neighbOrs
who was "agin" the public schoo q
because. "when everybody gets 80
they can read and write, nobody
will want 10 work.. Bishop
Berkely thanked God there was
not q printing press in all Virginia.
because "priuting presses printed
mostly lies and their business wac
70 deceive the people,. Even No
broad guaged man as Ruskin de
clared the introduction of rail.
roads would ruin England BY
driving the stages out Of business
and killing the demand for horses.
Peter Cooper, builder Of the frat
locomotive operated In the United
States was made the laughing
stock of the whole countrywide,
because in a ten mile race with an
,lc grey horse near Baltimore, his
roller spraDg q leak and the horse |
won. Robert Fulton WAS declared |
fraud by the bOatmen of the
hudson River who doubted bis
lbility to make the "Clernon,"
navigate it's waters by steam and
Without the use or sails. Ark.
wright who invented the spinning
rame which revolutiOnize,l the
Weaving business of the world
vas mobbed and jacquard. whose
Dom Is still the worlds stand 4, d
anne near being thr0wl into the
liver by an angry crowd of fabric
workers. who feared his machine
The invention OF Elias Howe.
ewing machine caused riots in
New York and q Pennsylvania
woman said Of Samuel F. t.
dOrse's telegraph which the fin IN.
iers Of Wall Street believed i'm
PRACTICAL and refused to tiuancr:
i suppose no one c.n spank their
rats now. without the whole
World knowing all about ip'.
Alexander Graham Bells tele.
hone was said to be a toy until
he EmperO Dom Pedro finding i,
q corner OF the Centennial Elk.
os'tion at Philadelphia, pro.
OunceG 1t one of tho maryels Of
he age. Edison was thought 10
Q possessed Of mild form Of de-.
'entia when be announced iha,
y injecting electricity into the
arbon filament of u lamp from
hich the air had been removed
9 had discovered the secret OF
hat IL to day the worlds uniyer
d iIluminant. Patrick b Della.
= excited the same popular ME-
wings among the unscientiiic
18th bis multiplex. BY which six
essages were transmitted stimuli. !
lneously over q single wire and Z
'xed our Imagination to the limit 3
y his telepost system of automs. .
9 telegraph by which be sends
WO words q minute over one
ire. Finally when Msrconi, the
youth from Bologna
lowed us how without the nee Of
Tres. it was possible to com,ou.
cate over sea, We admitted that
ere was nothing left to chal.
nge our crsdulity.
Thus the world has moved on. /
ach step has brosdened our ,,~r /
ective, strengthened our con6d. !
&c aud added to our length Of +
", our poise, peace, power and s
:. No longer do 70 denounce :
y one or jecry bis Invention. s
ther have We got to that polnt s.
onr evolution whore ~ believe S
} apparently impossible u e. 8
nable and that nankind. q I'll
matter rot 0nlY a. Lia or