For Men or for Things by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · May 20, 1908

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 34, No. 21.

"For Men or for Things."

By Editor

THE great preachers' monthly, the Homiletic Review, in discussing the perilous social situation, asks:

"Shall patriotic Americans care most for men or for things, for natural human rights or for artificial property rights, for the welfare of the many or for the privilege of the few?"

It ought not to be a hard question to answer; but it will never be solved in this world. "Vested interests," if wealthy and influential enough, demand special legislation; laboring classes are demanding special legislation in behalf of their special organizations, with no regard for the rights of others; Sunday-law advocates are demanding legislation in behalf of the Sunday. Why not leave things, and legislate in behalf of the man, the individual. If his rights are protected, the equal rights of all will be. Whatever the institution of man may be, the rights of man are greater.