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Lic sentiment. Which did not always need formal expression, was effective in upholding public order and morality. This sentiment had its sources chiefly in home life and training. In the influence of religion, and in the traditions of ancestral character and public spirit, and of honorable service°of pub lic interests, which were transmitted in families from gener ation to generation. The war developed influences which seriously impaired the vitality of local self-government and of the moral and social guardianship of public order and honor. The most potent factor in this evil change was the new thirst and passion for wealth which appeared amid the morbid conditions of the life of the people after the great conflict. Under the influence of this all-absorbing ambition the moral administration of the local communities was to a great extent abandoned, and it has never been resumed. Multitudes of citizens, relinquishing the warfare against dis order into which all true men are born, devoted their pow ers wholly to the acquisition of wealth, and this pursuit soon became a mad struggle for success and pre-eminence which produced unwholesome intellectual and social condi tions still everywhere prominent in the national character and life. Here was the source and birth of American socialism. It is the fashion to assert that socialism in this country is of foreign origin, and this notion is a comfort to many persons, but the socialism which is most vital and dynamic among us to-day is the growth of our own soil. It had its origin in the changes in thought, feeling and action produced by the rise of an over-mastering desire for wealth which has weakened all properly social motives and eflbrts, diminished civic patriotism, and in a great measure destroyed the sense of a Spiritual and moral community. With the decline of the life and efliciency of the local com.

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