text:  The evil is sedulously pointed out and the only practicable remedy is resisted by the same persons--the friends "par excellence " of the people! This moral disorganization and the total disrespect for the rights of property by which it is accompanied creates other evils as its necessary consequences; it produces hostility and ill feeling between the higher and the lower classes augments absenteeism and deprives the peasantry of the personal superintendence of those who would really have their interests at heart and by whose example they would be benefited