Show PROGRESS REVERSED all thoughtful people we presume note as the days so go by that with each morning paper there are more accounts of horrible and unnatural cr crimes inies why Is this so more money has been spent on churches during the last thirty years than in any thirty years of the history more people are preaching and teaching and acting the gospel than ever before and yet the crimes go on jn swiftly ratio to be bd si matter r ot or national concern rol ceib 23 cli re astill VW t arror 77 because through the he action of the government ern ment the opportunities of poor men to earn honest livings living ii have been curtailed ta ailed and thousands and tens ot of thousands after a mighty struggle to save for themselves a competency have found themselves in their old age overborne and so BO the list of crimes of all orders the list of suicides the list of 0 burglaries the list of larcenies larce nies and the list which marks where re able violence has broken oat are swelling I 1 every day the great cause ot of the crime was when the subtle dealers in money concluding conc ludins that its volume volum was ewas too much that unless it could be checked men would pay their debts and cease to pay interest struck down half of the money in the world when they did that they did something which was directly calculated to double the crimes of the world through doubling the worlds sorrows we presume those wise men who are just now discussing a form of finance which will 1111 the wants of the bankers never consider that a moral question i 1 Is 15 5 involved that when the money of a country Is lessened the morals 0 of the country are lessened in like ratio and the prosperity of 0 tile country Is arrested and that notwithstanding the churches notwithstanding the schools notwithstanding the efforts being made to lift men up there Is something going on which tends con to degrade them and that that Is the first thing to be remedied |