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3 but the proportion is even less than here, and in both places the business and working habits of the times are against
the men. Some are in the shops on Sunday, Some on the road as train men, or travellers. Some in their business offices or
stores in the forenoon attending telegraph telephone or business correspondence. Only a moderate minority of the male members
will be in the morning service of the church. The women and girls will be there 5 to 1. In Milwaukee the girls are ahead
in the common and high schools. The high schools graduate 2 1/2 girls to one boy. It is similar in the Sunday school; fewer
boys attend, and they give more trouble to teach and stay a shorter time than girls. Most of the girls and only some of the
boys graduate into the church. And a resulting counterpoint of this is that boy criminals are increasingly filling up our
jails and reformatories The boy problem is a great one. As for the causes of these conditions (I speak more particularly
for Milwaukee) I place first the greed for wealth. 2d Socialism, which tho opposed to wealth, exalting altruistic theories,
yet makes no practical advance, Ignoring where they do not directly oppose everything Christian. A few indeed try to combine
both, but their influences is lost in the general trend, which is materialistic, even sensualistic. amusement seeing to be
the highest aspiration. This increasingly pervading belief in the necessity of amusements, I would place as a 3d adverse cause.
If amusements were a nesscessity how did you and get on? So the life of the community is frittered away, worthy objects being
out of consideration. Religion regarded as only a sentiment, and morals a matter of preference, adaptable to a situation.
Outward respectable people claim the freedom of their inclinations and appetites, and even their passions; and the vital backing
and propelling force, behind those evil influences, is the Hyda headed, monopolistic, all pervading, wide spreading Dragon
of the liquor traffic. Mutually helpful with it is political graft, the Social evil, White Slave Traffic and gambling. A combination
that appalls good men, and they only dare attack the baser manifestations. 05376