Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1914 — Ballot Will Not Reform Every Vice and Establish Every Virtue [ARTICLE]

Ballot Will Not Reform Every Vice and Establish Every Virtue

By Bishop WARREN A. CANDLER

of Southern Methodist

Episcopal Church

THE American mind seems to be infected with what may be called the SUPERSTITION OF THE BALLOT. Many men, otherwise sane, are foolish enough to think reform can be brought about |by the result of an election, and in consequence we are having all sorts of elections on questions which ought not to be in politics. •t * THESE MEN OUGHT TO BE REFORMING THEIR OWN LIVES AND THOSE OF THEIR CHILDREN, AND THEN THEY WOULD LACK TIME TO BE CLAMORING FOR ELECTIONS ON ALL SORTS OF ISISUES. WE WOULD NOT NEED SO MANY REFORMS IF THERE WERE MORE RELIGION IN THE HOMES Q.F THE LAND. Many women also have fallen under this delusion that voting will [REFORM EVERY VICE AND ESTABLISH EVERY VIRTUE in the earth. But the plain fact is that where it has been tried it has not accomplished any such"end.'