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Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Thursday, June 24, 1880

FromAdvent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 56, No. 1

Politicians Urged to Avoid Personal Abuse

—The Interior gives the politicians of this country the following good advice. We wish for the honor of the nation, that it might be heeded.

“There will be a sufficiently wide field of difference on economical policy, political doctrine, and other great and grave questions, to make the campaign a means of popular education—to lay before the people the facts and logic of elevated politics and statesmanship, and to make them intelligent voters. The torrents of personal abuse, which are so often the chief characteristics of political campaigns, are positively and fearfully damaging to public morals, and discreditable to us as a nation.”