I would like to see corporal punishment done away with in every home, in
every school, in every asylum, reformatory, and prison. Cruelty hardens
and degrades, kindness reforms and ennobles.
I would like to see the millionaires unite and form a trust for the
public good.
I would like to see a fair division of profits between capital and
labor, so that the toiler could save enough to mingle a little June with
the December of his life.
I would like to see an international court established in which to
settle disputes between nations, so that armies could be disbanded and
the great navies allowed to rust and rot in perfect peace.
I would like to see the whole world free--free from injustice--free from
superstition.
This will do for next Christmas. The following Christmas, I may want
more.--The Arena, Boston, December, 1897.