Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 October 1911 — Deterioration In America Bar to an Ideal Nation [ARTICLE]

Deterioration In America Bar to an Ideal Nation

By Professor FRANKLIN H. GIDDINGS, President of the American Sociological Society

CO THE SERIOUS OBSERVER OF AMERICAN MANNERS AND MORALS THERE CAN BE NO DOUBT THAT THE LAST FIFTEEN OR TWENTY YEARS HAS BROUGHT • ABOUT A PROFOUND DETERIORATION IN PRIVATE AND • ' PUBLIC CONDUCT IN AMERICA. CONDUCT* IS THE REAL i THING THAT MAKES FOR THE GENERAL WELFARE. i~~ V e have in the United States a population of manv races, ; of very many nationalities, having different histories, different ; experience of life, different languages and difference of knowl- ; edge. Our people range from the most ignorant to the most i learned. Our tendency is away from any common ground. We . may never be able to unite our aims# our ideals and our ways of ; thinking. If we cannot we cari onlAehd in CHAOS. ; We must reduce the differences between the INTELLI- ■ GENT and the IGNORANT. I We must wipe out the differences between the OVERRICH ? and the VERY POOR.