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Show Bondage to Partyism Is Any nation's Curse So Declares the Philadelphia Christian Standard in Comment on Smoot Case. Many people arc wondorlng why principles, prin-ciples, ns well as practices that nre utterly ut-terly ruinous and nt variance with tho laws of tho land cannot bo expelled from their strongly entrenched positions In tho high riluces of the Government. Had politics poli-tics enter In and lovers of self more thnn God are in authority. With such the strongest political pull counts tho most. In law and government not the moral, but the legal technicality la recognized. This same prlnclplo seems to run through nil departments of civil government. govern-ment. Whnt If the home Is endangered? What If womanhood is degraded? What If anarchy is lnylng Immoral mines of death and depravity that wIM blast and blight when tho explosion comes? Unless Un-less the frlonds of principles and morals can deliver the ballots moro plenteously than the other follows they must lose Because Senator Smoot has only ono wife is tho legal technicality. What If he does represent, teach nnd propagate a system of anarchy thnt Is destructive of good government? Ho can deliver the political goods of fivo States, hence It is toused out as only a religious question Bondage to pnrtylsm Is any nation's curse. Christian Standard (Phlla.) |