p. 6 | The Persistence of Political Corruption

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · May 30, 1907

The Persistence of Political Corruption

edness, and that there is a loud demand for reform measures that will purge the Chicago police force, the report declares is beyond all doubt. In San Francisco, at the same time, an official investigation is uncovering sensational bribery and crookedness in high and low official circles. In several other cities, and even in some of the smaller towns, there are charges pending, or investigations are in progress. From these developments it would seem that even while grafters and corruptionists were being run to earth and punished in some places, they were boldly planning or carrying out campaigns of crime in others, seemingly undeterred by the prosecutions and convictions of others of their ilk.

While the writer of the above admits that these conditions are discouraging to those desirous of bringing about a better condition of things, he professes to believe that giving more attention to the selection of good men for public office will remedy the conditions. He expects that “the decent people” will “take hold of politics and make them pure.” But the Word of God bears positive testimony against any such redemption of this world. At the same time it proves that it is the Word of God by outlining the very conditions which we see to-day. “Evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.”