p. 16 | The Hypocrisy of Public Opinion by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jun 17, 1903

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 29, No. 24.

The Hypocrisy of Public Opinion

By Editor

But the strange thing is that this Public Opinion which is so commendable nearly always utters itself concerning matters a long way off. These gentlemen seem not to reflect that nearly all of these horrible barbarities involving the loss of many lives and much property were authorized or approved by Public Opinion. The very barbarities in Bessarabia, against which these gentlemen are so eloquently declaiming, were the manifest operations of Public Opinion, local, it is true; but the effects of Public Opinion are always local. That which we condemn is in some other locality; that which we approve is at home.