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Show j OUR MORAL PROGRESS. ' In the matter of embezzlements, defalcations, de-falcations, forgeries and bank wreckings wreck-ings our takings In 1904 omitting Mrs. Chadwick's exploits) were $4,742,607, as compared with $6,562,165 in 1903. That shows improvement in morals, or else diminished activity in business. Possibly Pos-sibly as the distance from the great boom years increased the distinction between thine and mine became better accentuated. As we stole less last year, so also we gave away much less, our total gifts and bequests for 1904 being $46,000,000, as compared with $76,000,000 In 1803 and $128,000,000 in 1901. Easy come, easy go. Mr. Carnegie, however, was able to disembarrass himself of more than $11,000,000 last year. t J. D. Rockefeller was apparently less fortunate, for-tunate, unloading (so far as recorded) only $1,461,000. Nlnet'Slx colleges between be-tween them got $21,236,000, or nearly half of the whole amount given. Harper's Har-per's Weekly. |