BOGUS REFORMS by G

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Dec 3, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 49.

BOGUS REFORMS.

By G

THE idea of some “reformers” that crime committed on one day is worse than the same crime committed on other days is not only a fallacy, but it is a compromise with the crime itself. Referring to the schemes concocted by certain noted politicians in New York and Pennsylvania, the Philadelphia Ledger scores them, not because their plots and schemes are in themselves wicked, but because they do the work on Sunday! Now it would not be fair to infer that the Ledger indorses all their nefarious politics, but it does virtually say that corrupt political methods are worse when devised on Sunday than when worked out on other days. All this is on a par with the so-called temperance reform that lays the stress on Sunday intemperance rather than on the broad principle of temperance in all things and at all times. A mere Sunday crusade never yet worked a diminution of evil in any line. To emphasize the wickedness of any wrong act because it is committed on any certain day, is to whitewash the evil of it on other days. Reforms of that kind never reform. G.