Campaign Evils | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Nov 16, 1882

Campaign Evils.

The St. Louis correspondent of the Advance, wrote to that paper before election as follows:—

“We are about to have an election in this city, and as our leading daily well says: ‘If ever there was an argument for prohibition we have it in the conduct of our politicians.’ They are so anxious to prove that they are not temperance men, that some of them resort to a practical demonstration of the fact on the rostrum or street corners. The chief rivalry is in getting low enough down in the dirt before the rum traffic. The supremacy of the liquor interest is absolute, and the question which is facing every citizen is whether we are to let this thing go on, or band together in the strength of righteousness and overthrow this and some other crying evils. It is plain that there is a deep undercurrent of sentiment which would make an organized effort at good government, including a suppression of whiskyism, retrenchment and civil service reform, a mighty success in 1884. The feeling of most good people here in St. Louis, if not throughout the whole country this year, is, that there is much to vote against but almost nothing to vote for.”