The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1888-02-10
Sam Jones penounces Dancing.

Listen: When that girl began the
giddy whirl Of the dance in the BALI
room that was the tiniu To get scared.
When you found your boy spending
more money than he ought, that Mas
the time to get shpcked.
.So& cards and reap gamblers. /
know I'm called 4 transcendcntalist
and called a Puritan, but God save my
family from cards and profanity. and
whisky and dances, and let the world
call me what it will:
..sstH Pa{lor dahcccs and reap ball
rooms and reap round dances. Sow
round DANCES and reap .,ltiacs and
dtidihest Sow dudes ,and dNaiass and
reap Eana t~iiimblcful Of calves foot
jelly. Applause and .auyniier re-
"o~vu again and again.) iwish you
wouldn't laugh any moro to night, for
Coos sake ,hleat tic. VIII, i GglslAnity
and e~arDestness worthy OF the cause.
But you say say so many funny
things. II you only knew how many
1 have to keep back you wouldn't
blame me for the few which creep out.
Hear me. boys, girls, young ladies
Of Kansas City! used to dance: I've
danced many a night with the girls of
my town, Hcat ME: II l was, ii fair
avetagb datcitig Hiatt, aid l thitk |
was, then no ptire girl can 60 out u
the Moor aid dalce, another set "a
voice, ,'Hdriah!y Young. woman if
you could but follow tho young man,
after no has seen you home, to some
barroom or club and hear the discus
sion of your form and person and
your virtue itself, you'd never lose
your respect and go on a ballroom
floor. (Sensation.) The dude. get
mad Mt mo in some places and; talk
about Wanting to slap My jaws.
But I say; to thsif credit, ths35 ihdM
better than to slap, I'h not afraid
to drop down into d hundred
acres Of dudes and not n thing to fight
with and all of them, armod with six-
shooters, ILaughter.J
1.-The tendency Of the nililctocniitth
century IS to dudcism. You dress a
young buck out, part his hair in the
middle. put on an eyeglass, give him
pants which look as though his legs
had been melted and poured into 'en,
put on %toothpick shoes, and every girl
in the town udmires him. prolonged
merrimcnt.) God help you, girls, III
rather soc my daughter dead tonight
than sitting in n parlor talking to a
dude. (Applausc.) Tho good Bishop
of New York says the confessional
shows that nineteen out of twenty girls
meet their downfall in the ballroom.
"ln all my observation | ncvcr knew
n poor, ruined woman who did not go
to ruin through The ballroom and the
theatre. A woman who has
lost her character has lost all, but the
boy is lionized by society. If there's
one deeper, blackcr he'll than another,
it's for the man who brushes purity
and virtue under his nnhallowca feet.
(Applausc,) The only thing in the
world which deserves a doublc-bar-
relied shotgun and a load of buckshot
is such a man.
"a round dance is an antcroom to
damnntion. l never want TO sec tho
arm Of n lechcrous man around the
waist of my wife or daughter. Z"
ape no man. I'll be myself, be true
to myself, and true to truth. All l
want to do is to stand on the barrel.
knock tho bung out, and let nature
cut her capers. applause and laugh
ter.) may be an idiot and q fool,
but if I'm not an idiot and fool, you'd
better think Of these things"