Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1914-01-03

aay They aro ncag with more than
nuy thonmnd idle men on me ra-
eific coast. can you eay thot times afro
prosperous With the divorce courts
busy every day in the year. ma evil
scarcely known 10 our fathers cln
you sos that morals are becoming bet
ter7 with tho number az country
churches decreasing and The attend
anec OF men in the city churches tali-
Ing off each year can you truJhfuly
sag that wo are growing ia religion 81
Let us see IL there is real reason
FOR pessmism True 1t IS estimated
that there are thirD-five thousand
idle men on the Pacific coast, though
only a small percentage Of that num-
Der have shown willingness 10 work
whon opportunity was offered IN Los
Angeles, San Francisco, Portland and
Seattle.
But without attempting to estimate
tho number Of hoboes from every part
of the country that seek the mild
climate OF the Pacific coast the pop-
ulaton Of the Pacific coast states was
given by the census Of 1910 as 49,
S04, More than twice fifty thousand
IDLE men may bo found In the
city Of Chicago, with about onc-half
the population Of the coast states any
month III the year, a differs not how
prosperous times may be. Thirty
five thousand Is n very small percent
age Of more than four million.
Attention has been called 20 that
thrty.nVe thousand becnuso Of the
aggressive organization known as the
Industrial Workers Of the World and
the social justice agitation Of Califor-
MIA and Oregon has given rise TO be-
lief that men are entitled TO live
without work. The unemployed IN
those states have become conspicuous
and militant.
There have always been those who
dospalrcd Of the republic and Of So
oiety. As for the republic, It sim lives
and as for society, It will continue. Tho
moral problems Of sex just now esq
peclally torment the conscious ones of
ns. Some are convinced that mar
rage, az an institution, Is disintcgral-
ing 70 the downfall Of organized socle-
ty. Others there be who argue that we
are Just now awakening 70 the terri
bic evils that have been hypocrlti-
cally ignored but which must be faced
unless society is TO be corrupted in
sidiously and completely.
There arc evidences that afford os-
tonalblc support for either or both
Of these views. And there is no deny
ing that the age is making some
things over to suit It's better enlieht-
eminent or more emancipated notions
But these transitions, which az the
moment seem SO fundamental really
are superficial.
The vast design OF human society
and Of lie remains as Il was and az
Il must continue. Tho changes belne
wrought do not strike 80 deep cannot
strike 30 deep, as In the tnmult of the
moment. we imagine
SO Is it with the apparent decline Of
The church, as evidenced by attend
nnco. hut not hy the practical results
Of tho work accomplished. People arc
caring less for dogma and more foi
THINGS done for the bettorment Of ih'
race. But the living stream flows on
and cannot cease ia flow.
Astronomers tell us that the cartl
IS frequently swung few hundred
mites or We appointed track aroun'
the sun boy the attraction Of some olh
n large planet. Jupiter for example
nut the earth continues, notwlthsland
ing these alterations. it's majestic
course IN obedience to those greater
and constant laws that hold i TO iu
ordained course.
Whntevcr our alterations may hc
The great moral laws remain to swim.
ns back into course. Resides, there
.ls gradual unfolding Of the mora
inws which sometimes scares the lo'
dormutic mind,
We are passing through period @
trcadIustment owing to the evolution
induced hs growing knowledge amon'
the massea but use arc not harhat
Hinu and could not relapse into bar
Iharium if we would. Society is NO
going 20 the huW+vows ana morality II
MI rnlnn m be dlsAnINol.