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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Apr 30, 1908

Pertinent Inquiries

UNDER the title “Apparent Success of Millionaire Gamblers and their Agents,” the Christian Advocate, in a recent issue, speaks concerning the failure of the race-track bill in the New York legislature in these plain words:—

By an immense majority, the house of representatives of the State of New York passed the bill to prohibit race-track gambling in that State. The Senate defeated it by a vote of twenty-five to twenty-five.

Is there a man in the State of New York who doubts that a vast amount of money passed into the hands of some of those senators?

Is there a man who doubts that some of them voted as they did under the mental whiplash of local political bosses?

It will be difficult for the Advocate to find many doubters on this subject. The debauching of legislatures by the use of money and by a corrupting political influence has become notorious. There are many signs of this sort; but we see no signs of an approaching millennium of righteousness.