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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · May 27, 1908

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 34, No. 22.

Drifting

Drifting.—A writer in the London (England) Daily Chronicle avers that America is fast drifting toward monarchy. He notes, in proof of this, the changes that have been made in Washington society, especially that which revolves around the White House. Various rules have been evolved, and certain customs established, which serve to guide each successive occupant of the White House. Even the number of State dinners and receptions that the President has to give is now definitely fixed. It is also understood that an invitation to lunch or dinner at the White House is the equivalent of a command, as would be the invitation of a king. Then, too, if he has consented to dine at the house of one of his cabinet ministers, a list of the proposed guests should be submitted to him in advance. All these things show the tendency and drift of the present time. While some of the Old World governments are endeavoring to work toward a purer and sounder democracy, the United States, which was destined of Providence to lead them from the old, arbitrary governments of the Middle Ages, is becoming the pedagog to bring them back.