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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Sep 3, 1896

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 22, No. 35.

Mixture.

The present condition of politics is rather mixed at best, apart from all other than political considerations. It is, we presume, difficult for the old party men to know exactly where they stand, especially those who have allowed others to do their thinking for them, but who now wish to think for themselves. But the situation is still more mixed when other elements are brought in, as they are by some political papers. For instance, one paper which comes to our table, has a column especially devoted to itself. It fills that column with nearly forty quotations and misquotations from the Bible, thirteen from hymns, religious expressions of its own, exhortations to vote for its favorite candidate, and other political advice, astrological predictions, and advertisements,—a sort of political succotash and hodge-podge. “For those that like that sort of thing, that is about the sort of thing they like.” It is an aggravated indication of what the world is rapidly coming to, but it is neither good politics nor good religion.