Advised to Steal by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Apr 28, 1914

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 41, No. 16.

"Advised to Steal"

By Editor

A DESPATCH from Boston dated March 8 got into the newspapers under the heading, "Idle Are Advised to Steal." Under date of March 14 a despatch from New York City got into the papers under the same heading, "Idle Are Advised to Steal."

The telegram from New York was concerning the Siegel bank and store failures, and states that the agitators advised the suddenly discharged ex-employees to steal. The despatch from Boston tells us of a mass-meeting where the speaker urged the idle to help themselves to anything they were in need of.

It has not been so very long since statements of that kind openly made and urged by public speakers would have attracted much attention, and would have met with very severe censure from practically everybody. But such things are now becoming so common that our danger is that we will think they amount to nothing and we will sleep on until the great revolutionary storm breaks upon us in all its fury. We ought to be awake to these things, and sense what they mean.