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Show A TROUBLED OUTLOOK. ! - I We read of the commencement exercises of our ' H high schools, colleges and universities; we think i - H of the school-house at each cross-road; we listen a' 3;. v H o the rumbling of the perfecting press and think j'fc I of tne millions of people that are given the news utf '" daily and become proud of our country and its lit '''I wonderful advancement. But there are some ' H rather discouraging features after all. We do not 1 y fl forget that John L. Sullivan drew bigger houses If ; I than Booth and Barrett combined; there is abund- f WH ant proof that a few yellow journals have more I - f H patrons than a hundred newspapers conducted on If - '' H high lines and .without sensations. We boast of H f ' I the integrity of ' our countrymen, but see high U 'fl offices purchased every year; we see employers and I jf $'S' fl employees drawing further apart; we see nearly lljl'H four hundred thousand immigrants landing in !f?B New York city annually and know that two-thirds j I- j 'j of the immigration in late years has come from m H countries that for centuries have been deplorable m fl because of ignorance, and whose people have been T I Tfl bowed under the double slavery of king-craft and Bff'H priest-craft. m ' fl In some respects, at least, the prospect is not H very cheering. On the other hand science Is open- Wl I ing the doors to new treasures daily and inven- w ,. fl tion Is perfecting machinery to such an extent t ' .', that rich employers depend less and less upon w n .fl human hands and more and more upon arms of jilil'l steel. Again, the men of 1812 fought better than I jjj Ji'l the men of 1776; the men who went to Mexico in n jL'ij 3 1 1846 fought better than the men of 1812; the men i.T'r of 1861-65 on both sides left records the highest J !'(, ever made by fighting races, and we keep in mind i If ( I that when the call came for volunteers to fight I m " fl Spain, the response was something as magnificent ' i. j'M and solemn as ever was seen 011 this sphere. It llMH was clear that the American race, no matter what mV 4'E1 might bo their weaknesses, stood in the fore-front mk$ '" fl of nations as a martial race. afh. t wJ ftr1' BB But the spectacle made in war, even the won- "wlf . fl ders beheld In Manila Bay, the greater wonders 91 j displayed off Santiago and the fury of the assaults ! ? H9 on El Cancy and San Juan Hill were not so grand I d$,9 as is the daily splendor of the movements of the t Ib!1P great industries of our country. The boom of mills, Iif ' the rush of trains, the roar of all the industries f fl that go to feed the world and to increase its ' HI ji JijM treasures never before had a parallel, and in the lf 119 meantime accumulated wealth is adding daily .to SI 1 if9 the stature of its golden throne and the doors are f fpH closing against those who have untrained Intel- KfJt'fff lects and who depend only upon their hands for a ! aJLal living. What is to be the outcome of all this?' It 'If IJrafl seems to us that all labor must become skilled or rlljflKfl lost in the fearful upheaval; it seems to us that all IIbIbbh poor men should try to obtain a few acres of land f If 9H to cultivate as an anchor for home. For the chil- ' llaHI dren there is no hope except through training them lliiinfiH with such gifts of brain and hands that they can HHbsV climb above the competitions of mere physical H workers, for money, machinery, Invention and hBI science are more and more swiftly combining and flfll it is only through the realm of mind that the poor fl can hope to elevate themselves above the grinding Hbhb of these mills of the gods that rule modern men HB and perform the world's rushing work. HftSH . . n , , jBBBBBB |