San Francisco and Other Cities.
By Editor
Many of the newspapers of the Eastern States are having a good deal to say about the lawlessness and corruption of San Francisco. It is a favorite theme just now for reporter, cartoonist, and editorial writer. The editors of this paper were born and raised in the East. They are very familiar with the customs and conditions in the society of the Eastern States. Representatives from this office have occasion to spend more or less time each year in the East. And we know from personal observation and personal contact with conditions throughout the country that things are no worse in San Francisco than in the average seaport city, and the Western metropolis compares very favorably with most of the inland cities of the republic. In times of strikes in San Francisco, like the present, there is lawlessness and violence in abundance; but the same is true of Chicago, Louisville, New York, St. Louis, or any other place. San Francisco has a horde of grafters and municipal corrupters, and labor tyrants; but New York, St. Louis, Philadelphia, Pittsburg, Minneapolis, Portland, Seattle, Chicago, and many other large cities, it is creditably reported, have a university course in which those who are determined on going the downward road may take a master's degree in the arts of iniquity. It is not a question of location; we are living in the time when prophecy has foretold that "evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived." And thus it will continue till wickedness meets its destruction at the second coming of Christ.