The World’s Moral Decline
"Vice commissions," and "wars on vice," etc., are coming to be quite the order of the day in many sections of the country. A San Francisco judge has recently said that the "white slave" traffic and the vices that it fosters have become a leading menace of the civilized world. One city after another is breaking out with epidemics of grafting and all the crimes that go with it. The papers day by day are filled with the accounts of the nauseating details of such criminality. Anywhere you meet men, on the streets, in stores, or elsewhere, you will find that they can readily be led into discussions of these conditions and into deploring the situation. It ought to be apparent to all, that the foundations of society are breaking up. And every one ought to know that when in the past any nation got into such conditions of debauchery, she invariably went down. And now that the whole world is in this condition, there can be but one conclusion. This world can not stand long in the condition to which it is plunging with such headlong speed. Men who will stop long enough to weigh carefully the actual conditions of to-day ought to be able to see this clearly.