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Show American Morality. Tho thermometer of American morals Is legion. It Is sot up on the penceful shores of a thousand rivers; It fringes tho wayside of numberless country roads; It Is surrounded by ripening fields and bear'ng orchards and Its shelter is tho farmhouse- and tho village home. Theso have their share of shame, but it Is the normal share of tv -mal hunW'y and net tho nbnorni''l excess of n stnto np-proachlng np-proachlng Sodom. It Is not n puritanical puri-tanical ppoplo wo view when tho gazo Is cast forth over tho hills and prairies. prai-ries. It Is a decent people, whose dominant Ueilro Is domestic cleanliness cleanli-ness and whoso, natural Inclination Is toward tho good nnd rlfcht. Philadelphia Philadel-phia North American. |