August 21, In spite of the fact that the Moral Education " movement has to regard Great Britain as the home of its adoption, the world is growing daily more accustomed to look upon the United States as the headquarters of all propaganda that have for their object the uy lifting of the human race, It is true that the sacrifice of five thousand lives and injuries to 76,000 others annually, on the railways, are regarded with more or less equanimity, while the national celebrations on the Foarth of July continue to claim their proportion of youthful victims. But these are already marked down as new fields for conquest, and it can only be a matter of time before even railways are compelled to rate human life higher than dividends and fast times. In the moral sphere this apparent indifference to one aspect of the national welfare receives abundant compensation in numerous movements that have for their object the betterment of the people. Chief among these must be ranked the temperance tidal wave, which has attained such wonderful proportions in the United States that it threatens to be the direct cause of a similar phenomenon in other lands. Following hard upon it comes the campaign against gambling, and the Sunday Law. There is a National League for the Protection of the Family, which aims at the improvement of marriage laws and is especially rabid against "the practice of clergymen of marrying strangers without carefal inquiry," while a Children's Theatre
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