Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1879 — A BRIGHT FUTURE. [ARTICLE]

A BRIGHT FUTURE.

A gentleman long connected with the press, and more recently in active business, in writing to a friend in Indianapolis, makes the following hopeful predictions, which were copied in the Journal of that city: “Business of all kinds is increasing all over the country, and we shall soon have a time of substantial prosperity such as this country has never seen. The United States will be the richest nation in the world, and with wealth more widely distributed among the people that in any other nation. Our agricultural and mining resources are greater than any other country of the world possesses; and, as all wealth is but the result of labor bestowed upon nature's treasures, we cannot fail in becoming the leading nation of the world in wealth, power and intelligence. This, too, it will become in spite of the miserable squabbles of politicians and demagogues, the selfishness of capital and the howls of communists and socialists. We may occasionally have a thunder-storm or tornado, but these will be but local in their effects, and tend to purify the political and moral atmosphere. ‘The mills of God grind slow, but they grind exceeding small.’ Man may be a martyr, but the race is progressing, and will, in my belief, continue so eternally in all modes of existence.”