When people of the United States celebrate the 500th Columbian anniversary there will be so many of them that no longer will it be said that
"Uncle Sam is rich enough
To "give us all a farm."
Consequently all soil worth tilling will receive the best possible attention, with the result that we will be the best fed nation in the world. All the forests will be gone, so lumber will be so scare that stone, iron, brick, slag, etc., will be so largely used in the construction of houses that fires will be almost unheard of and insurance companies will go out of business.
The government will be much simpler than now am! concern itself with fewer and more important affairs; indeed the idea of government will have disappeared; the people will tolerate nothing more than an administration on business principles of such general interests as are too great or complex to be intrusted to private management.
Law will be made for man—not man for the law—and theology will give place to Christian practice, each man's faith being judged by his life instead of his talk. Medicine will be practised at police stations and among outcasts, for respectable people will have resolved that illness not caused by accident is disgracefully criminal. The race will therefore be healthier and happier than now, as well as more sensible.
Literature will be much cleaner in the departments of poetry, fiction, and drama, for the already moribund humbug of passion masquerading as love will have died of self contempt.
