Have Had Enough by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Feb 21, 1906

Have Had Enough.

By Editor

It would seem that there has been so much exposure of official corruption throughout the country that the authorities in some places are becoming inclined to ignore it rather than to take chances of investigation. Real investigation strikes so many tender spots in unexpected places, that the higher officials dread coming too near home, or disturbing those upon whom they are dependent for political support. It seems that even the authorities in Washington have become satiated with investigation of corrupt practises. A press despatch says:

In the department circles it is common gossip that it is now dangerous for any one to give information leading to exposure of corruption in any place in the government; that the informers generally get the worst of it, and that it is much wiser, if one desires to hold a position, to know nothing at all of what is going on here. It is known that a number of persons who gave out information leading to exposure of corruption have been quietly dropped, and others take this as a warning.

The trouble with all earthly governments is that the profession of politics is simply a sowing to the flesh, and the result must of necessity be a reaping of corruption. Gal. 6:8. It is only by becoming partakers of the divine nature, through the knowledge of God and the righteousness of Christ, that any one can “escape the corruption that is in the world through lust,” 2 Peter 1:1-4. No amount of “reform” politics, not even religious politics, can eradicate the evil. Experience is proving that the more we have of this kind of reform, the worse the situation becomes.