HISTORIES: "The Future" of Barron, Barron County, WI

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                           The Future

What will the next hundred years bring to this community and this nation? 
No man knows. Will other fiends and mad men rise and "shut the gates of 
mercy on mankind", as happened only a short time ago? Again, no man knows. 
We can only face the future with a great deal of fear and apprehension when 
we think of the greedy, unprincipled, merciless men who now occupy positions 
of great power and who have in their hands the terrible, destructive forces 
which science has recently discovered.

We can also face the future with great faith and courage and hope when we 
review the past and recall how many crises mankind has encountered in years 
gone by. Each time, during the darkest hour when all seemed lost, man has 
fought on and finally crushed the forces of evil. And we fervently hope it 
will ever be thus. At any rate, no thinking man, were it in his power,
would care or dare to draw the veil aside.

We fully realize that this account of the events which have taken place in 
this community in the past hundred years, is far from perfect. Maybe some 
things which do not appear in this account should have been included and 
other items which are included had better been omitted. A brilliant writer 
once produced an essay entitled, "The Glory of the Imperfect." If there is 
some small merit in this work, maybe it will fall under some such title.

And now, with trust in God, and with hope and courage, and good will, and 
good fellowship, let us embark on the second hundred years hoping that this 
community and this nation will move, ever forward and the world will become 
and ever better place in which to live, as the centuries come and go.


--From the Souvenir Historical Album of the Barron Centennial-1960
(used by permission)