Legal Inconsistency

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · Feb 16, 1882

Legal Inconsistency.

How long will the people not only tolerate, but actually legalize these dens of bestiality in their very midst, to ruin their sons and fathers, and demoralize and degrade humanity?

How long will they license the cause, then shudder and groan and weep and whine over the sad and deplorable results? License schools of vice, pauperism, madness, and crime, and then build pauper-houses, mad-houses, prison-houses, and scaffolds for their motley graduates! Pay the taxes imposed in consequence, and then again and again license the same accursed traffic which renders these expensive poor-houses, mad-houses, asylums, and prisons necessary! Legalize the manufacture of rowdies, tramps, mendicants, marauders, and murderers, then arrest, try, convict, imprison, or hang the wretched victims! Fire the magazine, then “regulate,” “restrain,” and “punish” the explosion! Beautiful consistency! Profound statesmanship this!—The Lever.