The International Reform Bureau’s Literature
As a further illustration of the method employed by the International Reform Bureau, the organization of which W. F. Crafts is the head, to secure the circulation of its literature, we note that a book entitled “Patriotic Studies” has been printed and distributed at government expense, the pages of which, according to the Hartford Courant, “preserve for posterity generous samples of the views of Rev. Wilbur F. Crafts, Ph. D., and others, on ‘Sabbath observance,’ the liquor traffic, gambling, sectarian schools for little Indians,” etc. This leads the Washington Post to remark that “the President deemed it expedient, in the exercise of his discretion, to refer to such abuses as this incident represents in his first message to Congress.” It appears to us to be something of an anomaly for a Reform Bureau to be so directly connected with an abuse which has already been rebuked in a presidential message. The reformers seem to need to be reformed.