Weekly Nome industrial worker. (Nome, Alaska) 1918-1919, 1918-11-16
LOOKING FORWARD


well as the era of war of bloody fact.
And the popular romance is entitled
Looking Forward
Time was indeed when here and
there choice genius like Bellam or
Donnelly cheated the lazy hours with
contributions in the form of fiction as
in Looking Backward Or as Caesars
Column, the most optimistic and the
most pessimistic of possible out
looks on the future; but today at any
rate every Soul can indulge his sense
of the prophetic to the full to take
look in the crystal ball coming back
to tell a gaping public what he has
seen therein. It's written that God
knoweth the heart and altho modern
psychological experts affect betimes to
be able to rival the Deity in intro
spection of this closely familiar type,
it is safe to say that as yet none are
absolutely sure that they can penc-
rate the mystery of appearance and
diagnose safely the thots within.
So it is with the future. We may
indeed approach some degree of ex-
cellence in determining probabilities
and founG1ng our approximation up
on past experiences and try to reach
within reasonable certainty the flu
ture happenings. There's delight
full mystery about the future that at
tracks and fascinates all of us. And
we are not all certain that we may
rid ourselves of the superstition that
every palm reader is not indeed a
Cagliostro.
The immense patronage which
spirituahsts and clairvoyants of all
tribes are today receiving indicates
the popularity of the cult and the
hidden depths of suman superstition.
But for all that, we are not little
bit skeptical of any and all attempts
to read the future.
What is the case in personal way,
can be said to be the same in social
way. Prophets have arisen who fore
tell a superior condition for all in this
world of war. Here and there sin
lister croak is heard which declares
for exactly the worse conditions pre-
vailing, few if any of us, admit that
anything and everything may happen,
but what will happen must primarily
depend upon ourselves.
There are those who hold to the
view that as a result of this war the
world will for everyone be better
place to live in. The evils of which
we have complained without result
in the past will be remedied That
the woes of poverty will be eliminated
and every man who will may make
a living without let or hindrance.
That industrial tyranny, as keen and
sharp and degrading every whit as
political tyranny, will be removed,
and that child labor, sweat shops and
slums will be removed for ever and a
day from this happy old world. These
things as we'll as hosts of other re-
forms are to be brot about according
to the declarations of great many
and everything is to be lovely on
Mother Earth, which is to be trans
formed in to Valley of Smiles which
was formerly Vale of Tears.
Honestly we know that all this is
superstition pure and simple unless
we make up our mind that they shall
be brot about. The whole thing rests
with organized individual effort to
bring this about and unless we labor
for that end we may be quite sure
that the world will sink back into the
same Slough of Despond whence 1t
was hoped with great labor it had
been withdrawn.
To bring about reforms that will
be lasting there is noNroyal road. 1t
does not speed of itself. Neither Will
II automatically come about.
In the economic world there are TWO
forces always active. Just as there
are two forces in the political world.
The one is reactionary and the other
is progressive 1t is the lot OF men
to determine by their own actions