p. 7 | A Social Crisis

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Apr 23, 1908

A Social Crisis

In view of the many “marital scandals and other results of moral turpitude” among rich Americans in recent months, the New York Times declares:—

There is no denying that we have reached something like a social crisis in the United States. It is the clear duty of people in high places to assist in the peaceable solution of its problems as much by the good example of their own private lives as by their public acts and utterances.

In speaking in the same article of the effect of “the lack of discipline and respect for moral conventions among very rich Americans” upon the professional reformers, the Times admits that—

the disregard of ordinary prudence in the conduct of their domestic relations, the wilful neglect of the proprieties, among rich people, however, tend to increase the volatility of the agitators against existing social conditions.

The rich are really cultivating the seeds of socialism and anarchy.