Show Jf OR HSI l Nothing Is more pleasant nt at a n time when one naturally pauses for n a mo me moments monts ments contemplation of or the past pros pres present ent eat and future than th n to be bo able to tay pW tho the world Is J I mowing growing better nil the time It Is l better than ever ter Hut But ate nin we not I Inclined to 10 pass that verdict without facts on which to base It h ItA ItA hA A New York clergyman reviews his career of ot years and Mile finds many i I changes for tor the tho better Ho IIO finds for tor I Instance that tho the lot of ot tho the working workingman I man has been greatly ameliorated halt Half Halfa a century ago the aspiration of ot the was to obtain two dollars a II day anti roast renal beef beet for tor or dinner Wo We know he says aya In n the tho Iron mills unIt and everywhere else cite one ono turns how fur far be beyond yond such luch wages the tho workingman linn has attained At that time too tor the tho nw aver ago of oC a working day clay tin was twelve hours It was wan thought thou hl a 1 great tOlt advance had hn been bern made when It was reduced to 10 ten Now It Is hI eight And yet there were no strikes then Ihen no labor troubles such on as now threaten the tho very life lite of Industry The Now York clergyman Just junt quoted says I worked nine years at ut the anvil In Wo W e 0 mado hammers hatchets hatchel amid axes by h tho ho dozen dozed When my m employer Mr Hammond found ho he must cut ut down doun wages n a little ho called us tie Into 1110 council explained the no ne necessities noce ce of or the tha situation sl III tJI III and naked asked ue u It if f we were willing to have the schedule reduced r We Invariably agreed Q reel together to together gether upon what could be there was wall no ho When ihen the times time were welo better hetter and null Mr Hammond could afford to 10 pay us tie more Inor ho he called us tov to tether nether again Of Ot we agreed to In the Increase a n little wore more readily than to 10 the decrease nut lint the tho point it I this There wan teas no II trouble In tint that shop hop during thit her nine years I 1 was there Are Arc we Wo then hot Justified Instilled In asking In n what t line had the tho status of ot the tho work heroine become better Nifty Fifty years ago ao he ht could co ld not cat roast beef every everyday lay day r and he worked long hours today toda he le hits higher wages and shorter hours but ut frequent strikes and troubles Tor merely the thc laborers In nn an establishment rero regarded ns air human beings for tOI whom the employer was wu to some soma extent Now they are arc UJ sa many parts arts of at tho general machinery about ho tho souls of or which soulless managers live hOve no concern Hence the tho antagonism l het en the two great divisions of ot the Industrial world hence the tho brutal und rood conflicts couplets that often otten con consume consumo sumo sume urn the he greater wages lages of ot the Iho working workingmen men Are Arc they I he so 10 much better belter ore oft than thun they hey were when hen thou theil worth as ns human beings being was waa more inure generally recognized Again It U Is III pointed palmed out that the tho world I is III n so III much hotter h caus of at the gen Ilen general eral oral desire to live Iho it u higher life Till This we WI are alt told has hUll beets been brought about h by y the tho schools timid libraries low How does doc this I lilA hla vision of a 1 higher life lito appear Inthe In lit lithe he tho light II lt of ot tho the Increasing crimes of ot of or divorces divorcee of ot race raco sul ride Ide 1111 A century ngo ago people were snore Ignorant ns lU Ignorance IH is nuts now IIO rc re Carded they prey thc wore more more attire bigoted ltd but they had Ind more rev re re tor for sacred things more store regard leKa rd tin for tho the divine law In and It Is le n a grave groe whether the multiplying flying of 01 knowledge line has not hot to many litany been J ln n a curie instead of ot n a 1 blessing because they hey nee nio ar MR as unfit to 10 use tHe It 11 to 10 age ngo HA nS l Is a n small lIall child chilli to handle lire alto HUH although grave r f doubts must mount lid be h entertained M its in to whether the world Is h t growing better bolter all the time there horn can be he no 10 doubt ns nil tu to tl Mi 1111 that nn m era of at truth and righteousness n nIl and Is I toad perhaps IK Id at nt thou than mutiny dare ilare to tu IH Ie clearly shaping he the movements movement of 01 the world that end cud rite Tho together of or the nn 1111 in III In ever per rioter dorm Intercourse and the he consolidation of ot their interests the tho if fit t International callais the of ot distances ill all In is preparatory to 10 ale tho th era ern of lit Ideal conditions that hint IH Is smite miro to 10 route Rut nut Hutin ilK Ite in noel mint not mint ho be looked for to I through the process of lit slow done alone Involution l Is but ono one on ants way nature bias mH or of obtaining her hOl ends Sometimes no produce In It 11 n Il day 10 a what evolution u would nerd neNI to This fact lot newer never b IJ bs hou the th po IIO s of n it yea or ot a n century are ro |