A CENTURYOF GROWTH What the Next Hundred Years May Bring Forth. A GLIMPSE OF GLORIOUS VISTAS. Dr. Talmago Foresees a Ilosy Future. Powderly'a Philosophic Prediction—TV. IL Grace on Commercial Development. 1 Future of the Drama—A Hright Wom an's Forecast. 1 Copyright, 1593, by American Press Associa tion.] When you thrust me with about twenty sharp interrogation point 9 about what will be the condition of the world a hundred years from now, I must first say that there is a possibility that the world by that time may be a heap of ashes or knocked to flin ders. All geologists agree in saying that the world is already on lire inside. All that Chicago saw of her big lire some twenty ( years ago was not a spark compared with ! the conflagration now raging in the hulk of | this old ship of a world. And then the earthquakes—witness Charleston and San I Francisco and Java. And then the comets shooting recklessly about, and the big chunks from other worlds falling in Kansas and lowa or picked up by the British mu seum on the other side of the sen. The fact is that our world needs to take ' out a policy in some astronomical fire in suranee or accident insurance company. I From the way the world goes on it is certain something is the matter with it. The volcanoes are merely the regur gitation caused by internal cramps. I am not. apprehensive about the world, and 1 sleep well nights, and 1 do not want to frighten nervous people, but considering what is going on down in the depths of the earth and what is flying all about us 1 am surprised the world has not long ago gone out of business. But suppose it lasts—and ] hope it will, for it is a grand old world and worth saving—what, then, will be its condition in 1998? In medicine? Well, cancer and con sumption will be as easily cured as influen za or a "run round." Theology? Far more religion than now. The technicalities nothing. The spirit of religion dominant. Minister's war hatchet buried beside Modoc's tomahawk. Condition of capital and labor? At peace by the prevalence of the golden rule, which enjoins us to do to others as we would have them do to us. Treatment of criminals? Prisons will have ventilation and sunlight and bathroom and librariesand Christian influences which will be reformatory instead of damnatory. Educational methods? The stuffing ma chine which we call the school system, which is making the rising generation a race of invalids, will be substituted by something more reasonable. No more school girls with spectacles at fourteen, their eyes having been extinguished by overstudy, ( with overwrought brain, and no more boys in their dying dream trying to recite somo- 1 thing in higher mathematics. What American now living will be the most honored in 1998? By that time lon- ' gevity will be so improved that 150 years will be no unusual age to reach. So I answer your last question as to what American now living will be most honored In 1993 by saying that American now sleeps in the cradle on the banks of the Hudson, j or the Alabama, or the Oregon, or the Ohio, a rattle in hand, gum swollen with a new tooth, aud will soon undertake a course of measles and mumps. But he will pull through and advance until i see him in 3998 presiding at a banouet, and as he rises to speak 1 hear him sayr "Gentlemen, j i was born in the latter part of the Nine teenth century, and hero we are in the lat ter part of the Twentieth, and the world has been improving uil the time, and I now offer the toast for the evening. Charge Jour glasses with apollinaris water and ; emonade aud drink deep to this senti- ! ment: "The newspaper Dress. May its influence in the Twenty-first century be as happy and prosperous as in the Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries!" T. DE WITT TALMAGE. ' W. R. Grace Foresees Wonderful Com mercial Developments. I look for very great changes, all of them in the direction of business prosperity in American commercial development in the next century. 1 expect to see a great mer chant marine, although I am one of those who believe that this cannot be procured by us until there are changes in our navi gation laws. The substitution of iron and steel for wood and of steam for sail power, which has been going on with great rapidity in the past twenty years, accounts, 1 think, for the decadence in American shipping partly, and if Congress shall so legislate that Americans can compete with foreign shipowners there is likely to he a revival of American shipping interest and Bhipbuildiug and the development of a race of American sailors like those of former times, who were as fine sailors as trod the decks, and who were at the same time really distinguished from ail other seamen by their business ability. The development of the great west, and especially of the south and southwest, will, 1 think, be as prodigious in the early part of the coming century as has been that of the states of the Ohio valley under the in fluence of railway construction. I am in clined to think that the American farmer must either find new wheat lands by a well considered and elaborate general system of irrigation or special methods of cultivation, or else the American people will be com pelled in the next century to import in stead of export wheat. On the other hand, the active men of the Twentieth century are going to see a magnificent development of corn and other cereals in the fertile lands of the great southwest, and American genius is going to Bhow Europe how nutri tive and desirable American corn is for food purposes when it Is properly cooked. For that reason we shall probably find that our exports of corn will more than make up for the falling off in the exports of wheat. But I think that one of the greatest com mercial developments is going to l>e, so far u the United States is concerned, in the relations between this country and those of the South American continent. The Andes mountains are already surmounted by a railroad which is going to open up that Aiagniflcent plateau, or montana, which stretches to the eastward from the Andes. As fine a cotton country as is in the world is there, and with the opening of this rail road a particularly fine grade of cotton will be developed. There are millions of acres suitah for tobacco culture, and higher up there is a wheat belt of virgin soil almost as large as is the great wheat belt of the United States. Besides, there are the great silver mines of the Cerro de Pasco, known even from tjbe time of the Incas, which his tory baa so many romances about, and by record for taxation have produced since the conquest over $420,000,000. Now men are living who will see this enormous country brought under develop ment. It will bring the South American countries into closer relation with the United States. There of course will be competition, but competition of this sort ought not to be unhealthy, and I presume that in the next century there may be built a railway reaching so far that it may be possible to enter a palace car in New York city and to ride in it to Lima, Santiago, Rio Janiero or Buenos Ayres. Now rail road development will do for South Aineri ca what it lias done for the United States, and the activity of our commerce will bring . the United States into very close alliance with the southern continent and cause a j development of commercial relations the | consequence of which cannot be realized today. The Twentieth century is going to be a great era for South America, and that continent cannot flourish without benefit ing the United States. I am one of those who believe that the commercial and manufacturing develop ment of this country during the Twentieth ! century will be such that the genius of the I American people will make it perfectly j possible for this country to compete sue- ! cessfully with all the great manufacturing j centers of Europe in a great majority of the classes of goods that are now being mar- 1 keted by England, France and Germany, not only in South America but in all the great centers of commerce throughout the world. W. IL GRACE. Mr. Powderly'a Prediction. Three millions celebrated in 1792, 63,000,- 000 in ISM, and 800.000,000 will in 1008 cele brate the landing of Columbus. They will j be educated and refined, for the arts and ; sciences will be taught in the public schoola j Not only will the mind of the pupil be tralued, but the hand as well, and each child will be instructed in the manual of j tools; they will be instructed in the func tions of every part of the human system; "man, know thyself" will have a meaning in 1993. The economic and social questions , of the day will also be taught in the schools; j there will be no uneducated persons to act as drags on the car of progress. The form of government will be simpler; 1 ; the initiative and referendum will prevail, ! and lawmakers will not be the autocrats 1 : they now are, for they will truly register the will of the people; they will not dictate to them as at present. The commonwealth will be organized on industrial lines; lubor organizations will have disappeared, for j there will be no longer a necessity for their existence. An ideal democracy will stand upon the foundations we of 1b93 are erect ing. Railroads, water courses, telegraphs, tele phones, pneumatic tubes and all other meth ods of transporting passengers, freight and intelligence will be owned and operated by j the government. The earnings of these agencies will swell the public treasury. . Homes will flourish, for they will no longer ! be taxed. Instead of devoting so much time and money to the erecting of great public structures, as at present, the erec tion and adornment of the home will re ceive first consideration. Each home will be regarded as a contri bution to the wealth and beauty of the nar tion; the earnings of public concerns will j defray the cost of maintaining streets, sew- i ers, waterworks and light and heat giving establishments. Cremation will take the place of the present system of burying the 1 dead; the living will be healthier, for the 1 earth will not be poisoned through inter ment of infection. The contents of sewers will not flow into river and stream to send deadly vapors through the air, but will be utilized to enrich the harvest yielding earth. 1 The progress of the lower grades of ani- , mal life has been skillfully guided and hastened until we may now assert that cat tle and fowl are approaching perfection. In i 1993 the same attention will be bestowed on j the human race, and, instead of rushing blindly forward, increasing and multiply ing at haphazard, humanity will knowing ly and intelligently advance to higher alti tudes. There will bo no very rich or very poor, for long before 1993 dawns upon the world the industrialists will have learned that the raising of large families is but another way to create slaves to perform f he drudgery of the wealthy, and the family will be restricted to the capacity of the par ents to maintain aud educate. Under such conditions prisons and poor houses will decline, aud divorces will not be considered necessary. The system which makes criminals of men and women and 1 j at the same time makes millionaires of 1 others will have disappeared. Asa conse- j | quence the confinement and punishment of criminals will occupy but little of the thought or time of the men of 1993. T. V. POWDEItLY. From an Editor of The Twentieth Century. 1 find that I am unable to prophesy. The future is a fancy land palace whose portals 1 cannot enter. Moving toward it from I the Here I am charmed with its brilliant facade. What sculptured splendors—por ticoes, pillars, statues, windowsl What is within? But as I advance the airy struc ture recedes. 1 cannot push beyond its threshold; its doors never open; on their other side are silence and mystery. I know not what is there. Today I was reading the prophecies of Babeuf. He was a French revolutionary, a coworker of Robespierre and Condorcet. I In 1792, possessed of fundamental sociologic truths, and inspired by the political prog ress of the times, he foretold for 1892 the i abolition of rank, of poverty, of social in justice. He saw clearly the relation of : land to labor and the manifold benefits of j co-operation. He expected all the world soon to see what he did. So he described a ' dreamer's 1892, but we beheld the 1892 of fact. I Yet let us listen to today's visionaries and dreamers. They are pleasing fellows. There's imaginative John Wanamaker. He foresees a one cent letter for all the : postal union; a free mail delivery in every country district; a short hour day for post office employees; a cheap national telo graph and telephone service. The poet of a pure democracy, Dana, pre dicts legislation by all the citizens in every political body corporate, lie fancies that all the electors in the United States may vote directly—yea or nay—on the tariff, on silver coinage, on a national banking sys tem, on restriction of immigration. From 1 New England and Swiss experiences he In fers real democracy the best policy, even for the whole Union. Another bold theorist is C. P. Hunting ton. He assures us of wondrous millions to bo saved in railroad consolidation. What, then, if all our trunk railroads were under a single management? President McLeod, of Reading, is out with a financial suggestion. The consumer of coal, ho says, will be benefited if the great coal operator, Mr. McLeod's railroad, performs the complete work of producing coal, from digging it to delivering it in the consumer's cellar. The plan abolishes re tail agents, reduces the working force oth erwise and permits of one general superin j tendency. Those audacious revolutionists. Armour ' and Rockefeller, have actually evinced glimmerings of practicabilityl From cen tral headquarters they control vast organ ized systems of meat and oil distribution. Shall our people ever again go back to petty local methods? Neverl These busi nesses are now adjusted to a national scale. Many enthusiasts are at work in lesser circles of social reform. DeVoe. for twen ty years superintendent of New York's markets, wrote a book to show that a pub lic market in each ward would reduco the price of country produce to the household er by 20 per cent, or so. The department store proprietors are forever entertaining wilder schemes to be applied in cheapening | shop goods. The unconservative street j railroad system, with its cables and trol leys, has brought the average cost of the passenger's ride (to the syndicate) down to I two cents. Ah, if the great public would take to dreaming with these dreamers, planning for itself as they do for themselves, and taking up with their ways of doing busi ness, how rich and happy it might be in 19931 J. W. SULLIVAN. ( Manager Palmer on the American Drama. [From Our New York Correspondent.] Mr. A. M. Palmer, who is generally es I teemed the ablest of the men identified i with the drama and is also a man of great . cultivation and most artistic sense, in speaking of the future of the drama in this j country, said; ! I presume that the Americans will create a drama as artistic, as perfect and of as j great an influenco as that which has char | notorized the national drama of France, j The indications ull point that way. Hith erto we have had almost no distinctively American drama. We have had artists, ; some of whom are quite as impressive and j talented as some of those who have made | the fame of the French stage. I do not need to mention them; every one knows I who they are. We have learned already how to mount a play, how to give it all those accessories which combine to furnish the perfect rep resentation, and yet, after all, we have j been compelled to depend, if not entirely j upon the greater dramatists of Europe, at j least upon the methods and the sugges tions indicated by the work of those who are esteemed the greater dramatists. ! Until recently I may say that we have ' had no distinctively American play. Some of the American dramatists have written , plays which have been great successes and are models of dramatic workmanship, and , yet, after all, these plays have been written j and constructed in imitation of the best European examples. By an American play I mean, of course, a play perfectly con j structed, whose dialogue while natural is j yet suitable for the stage, but whose mo | tive is essentially American. An American play should depict American life; it should breathe the atmosphere of the United j States, or at least that section of the United States which it paints, j Human nature is undoubtedly the same ! in all countries and in all ages, but the manifestations or developments of it have the flavor of locality, and it is the art of | the playwright while setting forth human nature to set it forth so that while its truth is recognized its environment is also sug , gested faithfully. That is what the com ing American playwright must do and, I I believe, will do. American life furnishes i every material for the perfect drama, the exquisite pure comedy or the more amus ing and yet not necessarily less faithful j low comedy. Recently we have had one or two plays of this kind. The teudcucy of today unquestionably is for amusement, and that broad amusement which evokes j i hearty laughter. j It is quite likely that in the next century the demand may be for higher ideals than j this, and when the demand comes I have I no doubt that the American playwright will be found who will meet it. In the Twentieth century the American drama | I ought to runk with those of the golden days of the drama of the Old World. lilla Wlieeler Wilcox Forecasts the Future. In 1993 the government will have grown more simple, as true greatness tends always toward simplicity. Railrouds and tele graphs will belong to the state, thus lessen ing the dangerous power of lurge monopo lies and vast corporations. Otherwise 'n less than a century our boasted American freedom would cease to exist, since it is al ready menaced. In temperance the world ere then will 1 have realized the folly of trying to legislate I upon appetites. It will realize the neces , slty of educating them, and that to educate i them we must begin with parents. People j who refuse to be taught on this and kin dred subjects must be prevented from be coming parents. In this way only can drunkenness be lessened. The same humane law will by that time extend to criminals—they will be prevented from propagating their kind. This will take the place of capital punishment, aud after a few generations will do away with crime, because no criminals will be born. The whole vast west will be irrigated and fertilized, furnishing food for all our popu lation. Architecture will have reached a much higher state, but will not in 500 years attain to the perfection found in countries thousands of years old probably. Airships will facilitate travel, and the pneumatic tube will be the means of transporting goods. America will produce the greatest au thors who shall be living in 1993. In music al achievement it will still be behind oldor countries. The occult sixth sense will bo the pre dominant elements in medicine and theolo gy. Mesmerism will take the place of an a'sthetics in surgery; theosophy—the reli gion of high thinking and selfless living— will take the place of creeds and dogmas; clairvoyancy or spiritual insight will be al most universal. Woman will be financially i independent of man, and this will material- ly lessen crime. No longer obliged to rifle her husband's pockets for money, she will not give birth to kleptomaniacs or thieves. Men will learn the importance of proper pre natal conditions, and children will be reared with the same cure now given to colts, calves and dogs. The government will establish colleges for the training of servants, and architects will consider the comfort and health of do mestics in constructing homes, instead of ignoring them, as at present. Better in structed, better paid, better cared for and more plentiful, the servant of the next century will be more useful, better con tent and more respectful and respected. If our men keep pace with our women in athletic development and in clean morals, the race will be larger and handsomer. Otherwise we shall produce splendid araa sons and pygmy men. Chicago will be our greatest city because she knows she is not and desires to be and has the energy and zeal to become so. Each of our other large cities thinks she is already the greatest and will make no pro nounced effort to be greater. All permanent ' greatness means eternal endeavor. If any man now living solves the great question of the true relation of capital "nd labor, to him will 1992 accord the honor of the greatest man. Next to him stands Edison. ELLA WHEEL*# WILCOX. A MEBICA 1993 ? Since Columbus discovered tlie New World there has not been in any country such rapid progress in wealth and material devel opment as in the United States during the past forty years, there has also been notable evolution of ideas looking to social reforms. The thought of this wonderful growth, just as we are preparing to take its measure by the biggest exposition the world has ever seen, naturally leads to the query: What Will America Be in 1993? That is the question that has been propounded to some of the most prominent men and women of the time, and their answers, ' prepared with thoughtful care, have been arranged for simulta neous publication in a few leading newspapers, in a series of weekly installments. A Many-Sided Discussion. That there might be as wide diversity of treatment as possi ble, the following subdivisions of the main question were present ed to the writers selected, with the suggestion that their replies be confined to such portions as they were, by reason of previous bought and research, best qualified to treat: What will be the political and social condition of the United States and of the world in 1993 V Will the government jr row simpler or more complex? Is it likely that the railroads and telegraphs will be owned or managed by the state? t\ hat changes may be anticipated in our monetary system? In temperance legislation? In the confinement or punishment of criminals? In divorce laws? Will the tendency toward the accumulation of wealth in the hands of a few in crease or diminish, in the next century? \\ hat is the future of great corporations and vast business aggregations? Is the condition of the laboring classes likely to become more or less dependent? Will our soil and methods of agriculture improve, so as to provide food, without difficulty, for all our population in 1993? What changes will take place in law, medicine and theology? In American literature? In music and the drama? In educational methods? In dress? In the architecture, sanitary arrangements and transportation methods of great cities? In the political and social Btalus of woman? What is the future of the "servant problem"? What improvements, inventions and discoveries do you look for in mechanics, the industrial arts, modes of travel, or anything else? Will the race he handsomer, healthier or happier than it is now? Where will be our greatest city? What American now living will be the most honored in 1993? Writers Who Will Answer It. The answers to these queries, represented in all cases by signed articles or personal interviews by the reliable correspon dents Walter Wellman and E. Jay Edwards (Holland), are of ex traordinary interest and will prove most entertaining reading to all Americans. Among the well-known people whose views com pose this notable syndicate are the following: Elizabeth Akcrs Allen, Poetess. Samuel Barton, New York Broker. Mrs. Annie Bcsant, Thoosophist. M. C. I). Borden, Authority on Cotton Manu facture. Professor Charles H. Brlggs, of Union Theologi- ! eal Seminary. S. O. Brock, Chief of Bureau of Statistics United States Treasury Department. Junius Henri Browne, Journalist. J. J. Carty, Electrical Expert, Edwin Checltley, Noted Writer on Athletics. ' Moncure D. Conway, Theologian. Shelby M. Cullom, United States Senator from Illinois. William Eleroy Curtis, Secretary Bureau of Americnn Republics. Van Buren Dcnslow, New York Lawyer. Ohauncey M. Depew, President New York Central Railroad. Judge A. Dit.tenhoefer, Supreme Court of New York. Rev. Thomas Dixon, Jr., New York Preacher. Ignatius Donnelly, Author of "Cujsar's Column." E. Jay Edwards ("Holland"), Correspondent. Kate Field, Journalist. Charles Foster, Secretary of the Treasury. Henry George, Author of "Progress and Poverty." W. R. Grace, ex-Mayor of New York City. Andrew H. Green, Expert on Municipal Development. Rev. David 11. Greer, D. D., New York Preacher. John Habberton, Author of "Helen's Babies," etc. Elijah W. llalford, Private Secretary to Presi dent Harrison. Michael D. Harter, Congressman from Ohio. 12. W. Howe, Author of "Story of a Country Town." John J. lugalls, ex-United States Senator from Kansas. Thomas L. James, ex-Postmaster General. Rafael JoseiTy, Pianist. George F. Kunz, Expert on Precious Stones. \ America in 1993 consists of a series of twelve installments, the first of which is published in the TRIBUNE today. On each Monday hereafter three columns of this entertaining and valuable series will appear in this paper until all of the above-named peo ple have answered this important question. No one who is in terested in the future growth and development of our great re public can afford to miss a single issue while this series is run ning. As it is but one of the many special features that will be added to the TRIBUNE during 1893 you should SUBSCRIBE NOW for the best and brightest semi-weekly newspaper published in the state. Two months for only 20 cents. Mrs. Frank Leslie, Journalist and Philosopher. Charles B. Lewis ("M. Quad"), Journalist and | Author. Richard Mansfield, Actor. 1 A. C. Matthews, First Comptroller of the ! Treasury, ' John McGovern, Chicago Journalist. Joaquin Miller, Poet of the Sierras. Warner Miilcr, President Nicaragua Cunal I Company. | Hon. W. 11. 11. Miller, Attorney General of the ! I United States. Thomas J. Morgan, United States Commissioner of Indian Affairs. Right Rev. John P. Newman, Bishop of Methodist Episcopal Church. John W. Noble, Secretary of the Interior. E. W. Nye ("Bill Nye"), Humorist. Professor Felix L. Oswald, Writer on Popular I Science. A. M. Palmer, New York Theatrical Manager. William A. PeHor, United States Senator from Kunsas. Terence V. Powderly, Grand Master Workman | Knights of Labor. John Clark Ridputh, the Eminent Historian, j Jere M. Rusk Secretary of Agriculture. Commodore Abrara Van Santvoord, Expert on Inland Navigation. John Wamunaker, Postmaster General. H. Walter Webb, Vice President Now York Central Railroad—Railroad Expert. George Westinghouse, Inventor. A. 0. Wheeler ("Njin Crinkle"), Critic. Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Poetess. Krostus Wyraan, Railroad President. Colonel Albert D. Shaw, ox-Consul at Man chester, Englund. 1 J. W. Sullivan, Fiditor Twentieth Century. Professor David Swing, Chicago Preacher. John Swlntou, Philosopher and Sociologist. Itov. T. DeWitt Talmage, Brooklyn Divine. George Alfred Townsend ("Uatb"), Corres ! pondeut. I Daniel W. Voorbces, United States Senator from Indiana. 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