Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 January 1913 — FUTURE FOR AMERICA. [ARTICLE]

FUTURE FOR AMERICA.

The future is for America, says Truth. In the United—States the vulgar are becoming cultivated; in Europe the cultivated are becoming vulgar. In England we are most of us educated now; the number of the cultivated is, however, rapidly diminishing. “Cultivation” is the product bf a special character in exceptional circumstances, and is the result of long-continued training. At the outset of the lives of many now, several years are sat aside for educational purposes, but, after the customary course is completed, most of them employ their time and acquirements in earning or accumulating money. The number of those among us who devote themselves to the attainment of culture Is becoming smaller and smaller almost annually, and that circumstance sufficiently accounts for the decerase of “skyscraping" authors, poets, painters and conversationalists, and also for the narrowing circle of "great gentlemen" and “great ladles." It is curious that developments in Europe are forcing all into trade, and in the United States many out of trade.-