Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 242, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1913 — Robert G. Ingersoll’s Vision Is Being Slowly Realized. [ARTICLE]

Robert G. Ingersoll’s Vision Is Being Slowly Realized.

A vision of the future rises. I see our country filled with happy homes with firesides of content —<the foremost land of all the earth. •I see a world where thronges have crumbled and where kings are dust. The aristocracy of idleness has perished from the earth. I see a world without a slave. Man at last is free. Nature’s forces have by science been enslaved. Lightning and light, wind and wave, frost and flames, and all the secret, subtle powers of earth and air are the tireless toilers for the human race. a world at peace, adorned with every form of art, with music’s myriad voices thrilled, while lips are rich with words of love and truth—a world in which no exile sighs, no prisoner mourns; a world on which the gibbet’s shadow does not fall; a world when labor reaps its full reward, where work and worth go hand in hand, where the poor girl trying to win bread with the needel—the needle that has been called “the asp for the breast of the poor”—is not driven to the desperate choice of crime or death. I see a world without a beggar’s outstretched palm, the miser’s heartless, stony stare; the piteous wail of want, the livid lips of lies, the cruel eyes of scorn. I see a race without disease of flesh or brain—-shapely and fair, the married harmony of form and function—and, as 1 look, life lengthens, joy deepens, love canopies the earth, and over all, in the great dome, shines the eternal star of human hope.—Robert G. Ingersoll.

Deliberately laying ihis head across a rail of the Chicago & Erie track near Hammond, Oro Vangeeson, of Crown Point, was beheaded by a freight train Wednesday. He -had started to walk to the home of his parents in East Chicago, and the train crew assert he appeared suddenly to determine upon suicide. • ■ - ■ - A Washington correspondent says an effort will soon be made to oust all republican postmasters who are editors, on the ground that 'a postmaster can not run, a newspaper without neglecting his official duties. There is dynamite in this for a lot of democratic editors with aspirations.