Exposure Alone Cannot Cure Evil
A "campaign of education" has often been proclaimed against grafting and all the other evils of this time. It has been said over and over again, by reformers and would-be reformers, that if we only "turn on the light and let the people know the facts, we will break up all this criminality." But the light has been turned on in one city after another; it has been turned on in one legislature after another; one great corporation after another has had the light turned on it; but notwithstanding all this turning on of the light, there seems to be more of it to do to-day than ever. New York City has been engaged in turning on the light ever since the times of Tweed, and she is still at it, and things there are getting worse all the time, and every one knows that it is so. Chicago has been in the same catalog, and the "vice commission" of that city makes it plain that the mere turning on of the light does not correct the evil. San Francisco has made a record in this line that is known to the world, and she is still at it, and finds plenty to do. And these conditions are prevailing the world over. In view of the facts, men ought to be able to see that it takes more than the exposure of evil to correct the evil. And they ought to be able also to see that God is right when He says in His Word that "evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived."