A Nervous World | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Dec 23, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 50.

A Nervous World.

The world is becoming nervous and hysterical; and this is manifest in its constant change and extreme of sentiment. One day it will be petitioning a State executive for the pardon of some monstrous criminal, and the next it will lynch untried and innocent men. This trait is seen in its legislation. An eastern newspaper well remarks: "We can get on a week's notice legislation against football, or against cigarets, or against tights on the stage. We can get curfew laws or laws defining the exact size of a bicycle bell. What we can not get are laws for just and equal taxation, for the punishment of crime, for the restraint of trusts and monopolies, or for the enforcement of the paramount authority of the people over their creature corporations. Of hysterical legislation we have a surplus; it is only in common-sense legislation that there is a deficit."