Wealth and Political Preferment

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Feb 7, 1884

Wealth and Political Preferment

POLITICAL preferment in the United States does not lie on the way to the kingdom of Heaven. Wealth rather than capability and integrity secure office in these days. It costs heavily to procure a seat in the Senate of late years. Mr. Fair, of Nevada, is put down as the wealthiest man in the United States Senate. His riches aggregate $18,000,000; those of Mr. Miller, of California, $4,000,000; Mr. Sawyer, of Wisconsin, $7,000,000; Mr. Brown, of Georgia, $5,000,000; Mr. Palmer, of Michigan, $7,500,000; Mr. Sabin, of Minnesota, $2,000,000, and so on. And the Scripture is fulfilled: the poor wise man is forgotten. Eccl. 9:14-16.