The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1877-12-01
~They All Do It."
There are few books that comprise

There are few books that comprise
"a mach vicious teaching within o
space of fonr or five hundred pages
=. i contained in this little phrase,
Lshta r:ui do it,rwhicii has been pla-
'rard,.L on the bill boards. an called
into the years Of the public for some
time past. This is the one sentence
which takes the courage completely
gu, of youth, soaring their conscien-
ces AS with arei.hot iron, and per-
mitti,ig despair to carry them OF
hoIiiy into the depths of crime.
"Oh, they all do it: why should
snt you ?" riis il the Suggestion.
"rha' man there fies and cleats,and
viii commit any crime hich the law
dies not make dangerous. So IT H.
viii, all at them. There ~ nV,is.' In
your trying IT, be different froinoth-
err people Snch Is, the way the
te,nptation.cones Ia the Young maii
thrown on the world with little
knrwk.d.e ut is WAYS, and perhaps
! shielded only by the loose tr,ininSof
"A, over-f,mi mother Poodle are
grossly Immoral it ssaid. Even,
temperance. advocates get drunk IN
priyatr: church ,ieacoifs Swiniile sa'
sin, - Banks; ali y'Dll s'e ~ innra.ity
! Is but il surface show. Beneath. there
F! i rn,ct;lled wickedneSs. ioa will
7 tinI yon INST tollowthe nultitade;"
ard the Youth with the pleasure OF
the world thus held mp before his
lowing Imagination. afidfnll of bod
lily health, ptunges forthwith intn
what he believes to be 1.-The world. =
| If the devil had concentrated all
his cunning during the centuries
which has elapsed since his electi N
I from Paradise. he. could nat have
pra,lueed "a mare powerful Argument
with which to conquer the sui 81
man than this, "They ali do it,"
/ Rn.. youns man, listen. That SEN
ltenca IL Il lie; .,s base and foul lie
AS ever was conceived in the mind of
man or devil. Taey doat"all d''it."
frh.,r are tfpusands upon thousands
at good. pure, men aud women M this
world, sl,il ~. it, may seem. Who are
l.allug ui,ri dat lives. Ihey believe
8 in God. and In the comnlan'is oi yir-
tue, anl are ling along with the
happiest results % themselves ana
their n,.i thb rs. There are men who
think that they are put intOt!iis world
. not u CRAFTY their own base appe-
, tites. but tn he. true AMI noble anu
hish-,nin,led MEN. There are me-;
. WIN would dis,li,in {" tell lie,
Ther,. are men win, would disdain t.
!. be- accessory toa woman : Tall. Ihert
arr. men who woai.l ,lis'iain to TAKE
, an advantage n'tr;nlr, or Z" II" an =
, other selfish oi. mean action. There
are men who. try Ia me Just. always
, and kindly both in words and feel
ing> Ia all. rherr are meli who lead
humble. uppretentious hves.and wh'
without making it known to the
world are daily doing IA vast amount
of good anu,i. their iellOwnien.
!. AID; is it strange I say, these mel
;, lead sery happy lives ald as a rul'
( very successful lives i! White ,tnt
: unprinril,l,,d G,tii may ENJOY tempo
!. / l.,ry success, = ,ouer Or later he vii
:, suffer fur his hack of honesty There
FL area tho;t>and ways ii. winch VIRTUE
rev-nses herself upon him. Bit.ii
:, oie way or anuthrr he gets has de
srrts. rhsrr ar,. plenty criminal
I; aroani yod, it is tree: bat they ar
!. 10 lie pitie,i, not initiated. Neve
. believe that what ~,iiIr do, all III
. make ia y"u own person. Il stnniih,
Example Id the t..lsi;y OF ''riey al
.ij'ii."