The Most Lawless by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jan 16, 1912

The Most Lawless.

By Editor

At a dinner given by the Young Republican Club in New York recently Senator Borah said: “We are even now, in our youth, the most lawless of any of the great civilized nations. There is no country of first importance where there is so little respect for law because it is the law.” The senator would have come nearer the truth if he had said that we are in a time when lawlessness is coming to be a leading characteristic of the whole world. In some parts of the world this lawlessness is due to a revolt against unjust and oppressive laws, while in other parts it is due to a failure to administer honestly and justly the good laws that are on the statute-books. The selfishness that is at the bottom of the scramble for business and money is leading men through bribing, grafting, and the like, to lose their sense of justice, and lawlessness is the result.