The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-05-31

tives who have been the puppets of
the corporations are being forced
from their seats. Delaware shook OH
2 the chains OF Addicksism and other
states are fast falling into line.
THE next reassertion OF the ma
tional conscience has been concern
ing the dangers of the saloon. The
anti-saloon league has accomplished
wonders in certain states, notably in
Ohio. Even Illinois has just passed
q local option bill.
THE fourth reassertion Of the ma
tional conscience has been concerning
the domestic relations. This has been
principally along two lines. First,
the awakening OF our country to the
widespread evil of divorce. Men have
read the appalling statements sent
out by sociologists with alarm, and
have then heard the voice of Ma
than saying, Thou art the man as
they have considered their own re-
sponsibility for this condition. The
number of divorces granted annually
in the United States OF America says
Peabody. is, it appears. increasing,
both at a rate unequal in any civilized
country and at constantly accelerat-
ing rate. 1t may be computed that if
even the present ratio of increase in
population and separation be MAIN
tanned. the number of separations of
marriage by death would be at the
end of the twentieth century less than
the number of separations by divorce
But this will never be true. Already
the national conscience is stirred on
this question. States like Wisconsin.
which had a. short time ago such
loose laws concerning marriage that
marriage was considered a kind of a
joke in that part OF the country. have
surrounded the entrance into this re-
lationship with the strictest regula-
tions
The second reassertion of the ma
tional conscience along the line of
domestic relations is in the position
of honor in which the people are put
ting the parent of large family.
Thanks to such men as President
Roosevelt no man need blush when
he mentions his half dozen boys and
girls who make glad his household.
The only advantage which comes to
the community through the desire of
the rich for small families is that men
like Thaw and White do not leave
behind them degenerates for this
country to care for.
The last reassertion of the nation
al conscience concerning which
wish to speak bears upon the rela-
ton of men OF wealth to the COM
munity. We are now seeing that the
accumulation of wealth by the meth
DDS used by the various corporations
is robbery pure and simple. While we
feel the thief should be put behind
prison bars. we feel just as firmly
this is the place for officers of trusts
and railroad companies who unite in
restraint of trade. Bad as churches
and universities need money they are
beginning to refuse it at the hands
OF him who has won it by taking
the bread out of the mouths of help
less women and children.
While there has been wonderful
reassertion of the national conscience
there is still, as in the days OF Lowell,
a Present crisis Every day there
comes a moment to decide
In the strife of truth and falsehood
for the good or evil side;
Some great cause, Gods new Messiah.
Offering each the bloom and blight,
Parts the goats upon the left hand
and the sheep upon the right,
And the choice goes on forever 'twixt
that darkness and that light