_Answer_. Undoubtedly. Unless humanity is a failure, society will improve from year to year and from age to age. There will be, as the years go by, less want, less injustice, and the gifts of nature will be more equally divided, but there will never come a time when the weak can do as much as the strong, or when the mentally weak can accomplish as much as the intellectually strong. There will forever be inequality in society; but, in my judgment, the time will come when an honest, industrious person need not want. In my judgment, that will come, not through governmental control, not through governmental slavery, not through what is called Socialism, but through liberty and through individuality. I can conceive of no greater slavery than to have everything done by the Government. I want free scope given to individual effort. In time some things that governments have done will be removed. The creation of a nobility, the giving of vast rights to corporations, and the bestowment of privileges on the few will be done away with. In other words, governmental interference will cease and man will be left more to himself. The future will not do away with want by charity, which generally creates more want than it alleviates, but by justice and intelligence. Shakespeare says, "There is no darkness but ignorance," and it might be added that ignorance is the mother of most suffering. --_The Enquirer_, Cincinnati, Ohio, September 30, 1886. RAILROADS AND POLITICS. _Question_. You are intimately acquainted with the great railroad managers and the great railroad systems, and what do you think is the great need of the railways to-day? _Answer_. The great need of the railroads to-day is more business, more cars, better equipments, better pay for the men and less gambling in Wall Street. _Question_. Is it your experience that public men usually ride on passes? _Answer_. Yes, whenever they can get them. Passes are for the rich. Only those are expected to pay who can scarcely afford it. Nothing shortens a journey, nothing makes the road as smooth, nothing keeps down the dust and keeps out the smoke like a pass. _Question_. Don't you think that the pass system is an injustice --that is, that ordinary travelers are taxed for the man who rides on a pass? _Answer_. Certainly, those who pay, pay for those who do not. This is one of the misfortunes of the obscure. It is so with everything. The big fish live on the little ones. _Question_. Are not parallel railroads an evil? _Answer_. No, unless they are too near together. Competition does some good and some harm, but it must exist. All these things must be left to take care of themselves. If the Government interferes it is at the expense of the manhood and liberty of the people. _Question_. But wouldn't it be better for the people if the railroads were managed by the Government as is the Post-Office?