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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Feb 4, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 5.

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Boodle or Bulldozing

By Editor

“Boodle” or “Bulldozing.”—We like neither of these terms, kind reader. They sound harsh on the refined ear; and yet they forcibly express in the current political slang of the day the two ways by which Dr. Cantine says the legislators of California may be worked. (See report of California “State Sabbath Association” on another page.) The Sunday-law reformers have not used the former; at least, we do not believe they have; but the latter has been used. It was used in the Congress of the United States in putting through the World’s Fair Sunday-closing measure, till grave senators admitted that it was not safe in a political sense to oppose the friends of the measure. Those who did would never come back to Congress. See the shameful evidence in Congressional Record of May 25, 1892, and July 13 of the same year, and also in the Daily Post, of Chicago, April 9, 1892. Which is worse—Boodle or Bulldozing? Either have no part in genuine Christianity, or free government.