The Next Great System of Government.
A bright, voluminous writer of the day in both prose and poetry, in speaking of the degeneration of moral tone in the business world, says:— That is why the best minds of the day are aroused to the needs of a new system of government—where men will be compelled to treat one another like human beings with feelings, rights, and privileges. That is why the workingmen are organizing; that is why co-operative societies are multiplying; that is why there is an Industrial Federation and a Single Tax Association—all spokes in the great Socialistic wheel that shall turn and turn until it sets in motion the New Government Machinery. And this is the way the procession of government has gone through all the ages. One by one every system has demonstrated its unfitness to reign, and has gone to ruin and decay by disorders germinated within itself. Men have longed, as they saw its failure, for a "new system of government," which would do justly by all; a new system has been devised, existing for a time only, to follow the one that preceded it, and from the same general causes. So it will be with all men's devisings. But one government has thus demonstrated its right to exist forever, namely, the kingdom of Jesus Christ, and, glorious privilege! all may have a part in its everlasting blessings.