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Show AN INTERESTING LETTER. Continued from Page 1. ance of these material and sacred objects from th twenty thousand schools of the republic are of tragic interest and would make fascinating though painful reading if published in book form. If the laicising of the schools and the correspondim.: weakening in religious influence resulted- in sonn improvement in the tone of public and private morality, mor-ality, then most men could view the change with toleration, tol-eration, but unfortunately it is not so. At ie time since the social cataclysm of 17!'-' have crimes of violence, suicide, murder, marital infidelity and general dishonesty boon so notoriously prevalent as in France today. M. Le Roy Beaulieu. iu a recent article cleurly proved that out of one hundred boys and girls between be-tween the ages of twelve and sixteen convicted and senteuced for various crimes and misdemeanors in Paris alone, eighty-nine received their education in non-religious schools and only two in the clerical schools. He also showed by statistical evidence that Brittany, the one province where religion predominates, pre-dominates, is not only the freest from crime. buf that, its population increases out of all proportion to the rest of France, particularly in the cities and towns -where the population is stationary or decreasing. de-creasing. Of the southern provinces, the Basques, still intensely Catholic, are the freest from crime. But I fear I am trespassing too much upon yom indulgence. If you can extend to me the hospitality hospital-ity of your columns for another correspondence I will not again intrude upon vour generosity. ' - Denver. Dec. 30. HUBERT LARKIX. |