Campaign Against Urban Vice
The chief of police of San Francisco is conducting a campaign against pool-rooms, gambling, and the "white slave traffic." "The great metropolis of the Pacific" has spent much time during the last eight or ten years at that sort of work, and she has had lots of cities in other parts of the country to keep her company. In a speech a few days ago, Dr. David Starr Jordan told the people of San Francisco that if they did not rise up and drive out the vices that infest their city, they were doomed. And he further affirmed that the problem of vice and crime that is confronting them is at the same time confronting every other city of the nation. God's Word has told us that "evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse," and that the last days shall be made perilous because of it. Men who call themselves "optimists" say that the world is destined to get better and better. It is more desirable to be on the side of God and the facts in the case than to be even an optimist.