Note and Comment

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jun 14, 1906

That existing conditions to-day are leading up to an era of strife, in which some of the darker experiences of human history will be repeated, is a fact obvious to others besides Seventh-day Adventists. The following view on this subject was expressed by Governor Hanly, of Indiana, in a memorial day address at Purdue University:—

The American people are at the beginning of a great revolution. As yet there is, in a literal sense, no call to arms. There are no drum-beats, no bugle blasts, no serried ranks, no marching columns, no battle-fields strewn with the wounded and the dead; but the revolution is upon us and about us as certainly as though all these were present. Stupendous social, economic, and political changes are involved.

Deeply embedded in the very core and center of this revolution, running like a thread through all its shifting scenes and changing forms, are certain fundamental principles of human right and of human liberty, and unless we in our day, and especially you in your day, possess a willingness to seek for these, the wisdom to find them, and the patriotism and the courage to proclaim them, to stand by them and save them when found, the call to arms, the drum-beats, the bugle calls, the serried ranks, the marching columns, and the battle-fields will come to us and to you as certainly as in the past they came to our fathers.

The criminal aggressions of incorporated and aggregated wealth against the individual must be stayed by legal regulations and wholesome laws courageously enforced, or history will repeat itself in your day as it has in the past.