Show S or OP TUB TILE TIMES IDIES Tho Thu question I tho ho world Is growing hatter bettor or 01 worse WI ISe morally is IB ono flO that frequently comes up for tor morn mono I or 01 less 1058 serious contemplation Some Sonio say Sll It ta Is 11 growing bettor others othell con can find no of ot Improvement The truth Is IB that human progress perfection very much the ito IC w the ocean oc ap rolling r up over oyer tho thu beach boich They Thoy rise and und tall fall advance mid recede and yet et tho ho tide may be bo rising steadily Independent of ot the movements of ot each wave weve history shown several periods pe of degen degeneration oration and Judgment although tho the ml tendency lies bus always 8 been boon on onWard onward Ward toward higher planes Just now U It Is to be feared another period ot of moral degeneration Is In evidence every everywhere everywhere where The rite wave IV Is 18 falling nut But that Is only temporary Another wave wae is com corn coming ing ln g and It will 11 rise fie oven higher than Its I predecessor Wo We need not open too the records record of ot tho the criminal courts for tor or u ii corroboration of ot the tho opinion III on that hat th the tho moral tendency Is 13 toward degeneration at it Look at tho the growing disregard of or all nil author authority ty t both divine divino and human That this Is ono one of ot tho the underlying causes oes of at the alarming Increase of t crime Is beyond That It will Mill result In anarchy unless Is also certain Then there IB is the tho Ing lag habit of ot Sunday desecration the tho disregard of oC marriage and tho the drink evil It Is 11 that thai notwithstanding tnt lag all nit efforts mif CIC f temperance societies today we wn ate drinking 14 gallons for tor every Oel mOil man woman and child In tho the United States Whereas fifty yeara ago nio tho MIH only two to gallon r per or r the tho unrest trong tho the people I la 11 I The cloud that was IS only ni nIl mann hand a 1 tow few yours years ago today u tt terrible sterna And no wonder Th The norm lions of Cf toll toil hard every day thoy till lo to provide their loved lovil 1 if 4 with the th ne necessaries e 5 of ot life lito see fee seethe th the tjoe hUl COIlS hons of ot the tho w thY magnates nay millions on an pleasure and und vanity and thoy they feel tee I tho the of ot poverty very keanly They become Irritated f unreasonable lIable and rebellious nut Hut Iho lio can uan blouse blame bIll me them vry ery ry much when honest labor l toll toil rind skill count for Cor utmost almost nothing In tn competition c with th graft anti grab TIIU And Ami thin discontent Is growing It Is Isu s u ol ri to close QI o tho the eyes eye to tho the facts re storm la Is gathering |