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Pacific Press Publishing Company · New York · October 9, 1890

FromThe American Sentinel, Vol. 5, No. 40

A CELEBRATED European nobleman says: “The Americans have the best Government, because they are scarcely aware that they have any Government at all.” Commenting upon this, the Christian Advocate says: “When the inhabitants of a country become able to govern themselves they need no other Government. Without self-control among the citizens freedom is impossible.” This is true; but so-called National Reform, which is more or less in favor with the Advocate, is not calculated to develop self-control. National Reform is paternalism, and paternalism in government is utterly destructive of self-government.