A Menace | AdventAI

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · May 7, 1908

“A Menace”

ONE of our exchanges which is conducting an earnest campaign in behalf of life in the country, contributes this paragraph to the discussion of the problem:—

The large cities are a menace to the social stability and permanent uninterrupted prosperity of this nation. The centralization of trade, population, and money in those great centers stimulates political and financial corruption, and speculation makes periods of financial depression inevitable. If industrial stability and prosperity are to be maintained on a sound foundation, all legislation must tend to decentralize trade and population, and promote the growth of small cities, towns, villages, and suburban and rural communities rather than congested cities.

This is a sound analysis of actual conditions and a clear statement of right principles. These last-day conditions are clearly outlined in the prophetic Scriptures.