Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-03
Don t compromise


'And next, what is the record of you
officers of the church, you are next in
Importance? Is your life clean, is your
character pure? You have got recordI
You own property; do you rent it TO
dens of vice2 Oh, how can you be a
party to the sins of others and live on
others disgrace? Stand aloof, stand
aloof! and show the world church with
true ministry and pure officials.
''Let me come closer still What is the
record of your fathers2 Are you respect
able? Do you drink and gamble and
swear and debauch yOuT virtue? On,
horrible record! Did you marry a sweet
wife and are ycu brute? What is your
record as a father? L want you to hear
me on this great question! Some Of
you came here TO giggle, but if you have
any brains in your head or any soul ia
your body, hear me on this, 1t is no
joke. What is your record since
you plighted your VOW 10 your
wife2 The worst thing I know
in this world is when a man will come.
IL dripping from a house of i'll fame
and put his head upon the pillow be-
side that of his pure souled wife. /
tell you il some wives could read your
souls as God can, they would never
see you again. 1t page of some of
your records were displayed on thst
post you would flee and hide yourself.
God help us! He only can be respectable
whose record is clean and pure.
"Reoord, record! Some men think
thSxShRye right to license, but l tell
you yea have no more right to be impure
than Yoar wife has, God being the Judge.
YeHEw3fe and your daughter have as
Hssfeh right De Impure as YOU, i Saat
as pugepAs he wants his wife and sister
to live.
"Record, record! Every time you
have been in one of those places it has
left its mark. Every time you We visited
one of those rooms your record has it
down, and that record VIII be read be-
fore the Judgment bar of God, and youE3
pure mother will hear il read off beforei
the assembled world. How some of your
records Will make holy mothers pale and
pure sisters weep! Oh, young men, if
your mother or sister could read
it now as God knows you could
never hold up your head again.
"Hesr me! What record have you got
as lawyer? Are you a dirty, damnabie,
mean little pettifogger, whom the devil
can hire for S. to do any job2 l tell you,
next to the ministry, d lawyer is the
greatest force there is in a community
for good. Bat there are some lawyers in
Fort Worth who are ready TO do any
| dirty job the world wants done, who have
| load of sin heavy enough to damn
| whole CITY.
"And what is your record as a mayor?
I've got nothing to do with candidates
nor with men. IN q voice and con-
| science, as far as that goes, for l never
| spoke for or against n candidate in my
| life. But l tell you that a man who is
| politically and personally corrupt can
never make a good mayor. Hear me!
AS long as debauched women can ride
around our streets in carriage and dress
| in silks it direct insult to our pure
| working girls who dress In calico and
! go to bed weary every night. 1 would
| have every strumpet caught IN the streets
| in prison, that our wives and sisters may
| pass the streets without an insult. II
| d tried mayor as long as some people
| have whom l know and he didn t Go any
| better, l d turn him off I would. Your
| chief of police and the force would have
| every strumpet behind the bars on short
notice If authority said so.
| Hear me, my countrymen! II you
| let Fort Worth 40 on for five years as she
| is you heads of families will want to
| gather up your children and emigrate to
| some place where there IS not such q
| premium put on vice. Are you too much
| of coward to stand up and declare
| yourself. If I was able I'd run back
| bone down some of your backs as big as a
circus pole, but you! you'v got little
| cotton string run up your back. That g
what you have! You can't make men
out of beef and cotton string. No you
can't!
"Again, what is your record as q
| Judge? Above all, give me q clean ,
pure, brave man on the bench! I'm not
calling names, but every man knows his
number when he hears it. L hear you
| have a brave, outspoken man on the
| bench, and thank God for it.
''Record! What is your record as a
city attorney? Do you bear a clean rec
ord? If you don't, you'd better not
| monkey with the buzz saw. Don't YOU
jump on your Uncle Sam Jones, cause
he's loaded at both ENDS. And you
grand jury, have you broken your
oath? Have you done your whole
duty without fear or affection:
Have you ever gone home and
| felt you were g perjured man
! God can't reform a country as long a:
grand juries will periure themselves
| Closer, closer! What record have you
merchants? Have you manufacttiFer:
robbed your employees? You are maaihs
| record!
''Reoord, record! What record as q
| citizen? Do you frequent those 3eB
places; do you go there? Have VOL
formed an alliance there, and later {
strumpet carried in her arms yoAI
mothers grandchild and your sistersl
niece2 God help man who would de.
bauch his mother and sister like that
Can there be depths so black!
"Listen, written testimony is the best
and all the prayers, all the water and al
the sorrow in the world can never bio
the lines sOme of you have written. OF
some of you men have committed sin
enough to damn O whole city instead o
one poor soul. But SEVENTEEN years ag'
1 turned to the cross OF Christ and saw
Him on the tree and felt His blood pou
over my sins and it blotted them all out
God smiled and my heart was at ease
Oh, give me the religion of the meek and
lowly Savior.
''Hear me! Ny bappiest moments arr