Show AS A MORAL QUESTION I 1 I 1 tare th cre Is one phase of 0 the silver question which the clergymen of the country ought tor lor caludy it if la Is going on oil quietly and noiselessly which la Is neutralizing feuti allying ull nil the rood good tho the clergymen can do they ought lio LID jn know ow it when we say neutralizing gill all the good we mean that despite their exertions the immorality of the country Is 13 increasing steadily so 80 that rhal the ratto ratio of the people who ank into asyl prisons and workhouses Is growing crowing larger and larger every year what we menu melon la Is that if i there were nvere twenty criminals in every one thousand inhabitants twenty years a ago go there are arc forty now new in ili ia a paper before us anere ta Is an item which tays says directly I 1 that the peasantry of ireland and france because ccaude the people have been impoverished by successive enactments are losing in both onlo morals rals tend and manners and it adds the mile women hems have scarcely atly thing to do there to la no moro more washing awl and they are rapidly losing their skill in wing and the effect of it oil all Is ith that at the civilization licin of those countries among the peasantry is sinking to a lower and aal aol tower state perpetually what la Is truo true of those countries is 1 true of our own there la its nothing which so strikes at manhood land and womanhood as aa enforced poverty and the fact that so fir far as can bo be seen there la Is no chande chanca tor for advancement when that time lime comes men man lose their honor bonor in a little while YA it gets to be simply a nt ruggle tor for existe existence nee land it if the pressure to la strong I 1 of after ter some norave women lose logo their native I 1 rolde rado filley lose their faith in mankind and their faith in god because when a woman Is young YOUn gand and fair and ll 11 denied nhe right which belonga tic be longs longi to every woman to took forward to co a home or cheti bell in a lias has little children about her ind and she can see no way to give to those children any comforts comforte tg or any learning while there ure are thousands and thousands lands who maintain their in and let otheir hearts slowly break there nee thousands more who say l what Is 13 the ajie now the of silver in this country has haa had the effect to reduce prices to producers so CO per cent the men who homes and a little property properly and by the property they had bad in their C charge large were ablo able iff fly employ froin ono one no BO five other men and woman can no longer donger ill do a BO tuo the low proceeds of the mot it will not pay ilor the th hired labor land and the tendency la Is datil directly city to strike down the tha io 1 joint in ewt ih i pie aim nil tho the preach preaching inc in the world all the good example in the world all tho the good counsel inthe in the world will riot not arrest or turn amock a calamity of 0 this kind thore there la is mo me help cor r lit it except to no go back nowhere lo 10 where the misi misitano tako was made it till info being true its it is the duty of 0 every clergyman of every do de in III the tha country to study eludy the silver question to me it if after all the financial policy ot of our lour ment lit in not norb more than klizing ill all the good that the tha men ol of tho tha churches earl can do |