The World Growing Worse
By Editor
The preachers that prophesy "smooth things," and are therefore popular (Isa. 30: 10) persist in declaring that the world is growing better. But not only do the Scriptures tell us that in the last days "evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse," but the world itself is testifying to that effect. The world's own investigators are constantly bringing to light the generally-corrupt practises in social, political, and corporate business circles—implicating many of the recognized great men in both moral and civic defalcation. In addition to the well-worn facts of railroad, insurance, steel, oil, copper, beef, and other trust frauds, together with general political faithlessness, we are now confronted with the defalcations of a Chicago banker of great financial influence. Investigation shows that he has "violated all the vital clauses of the national banking law." Yet the secretary of the United States treasury says that he has done only that which many other bankers in the United States are doing. Is it because the custom is so common that the treasury department, whose business it is, does not put a stop to such practises?