A 75,000 Acre Ranch

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · May 9, 1916

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 43, No. 19.

A 75,000 Acre Ranch

WHEN Mexican bandits, a few weeks ago, murdered Enrico Visconti, an Italian subject residing in Mexico, the fact that he had a ranch of 75,000 acres was promulgated extensively through the dispatches.

The large holdings of a few men is one of the great characteristics of this time. The greed of men in all the ages has led them to seek to grasp as much wealth as possible, and these grasping financiers have been a source of danger at many times in limited localities in different nations. Many local revolutions and much bloodshed have resulted.

But never before in the history of the world has the money peril been an international problem, threatening universal revolution, as it does to-day. The storm has been gathering for years. It has been spreading over the entire world. Danger signals have been sent out by wide-awake men of many persuasions and beliefs; but heedlessly and blindly the workings of greed go on, and the crash must come. The effect cannot fail to follow the cause that is unmistakably producing it.