Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-29

ldidn Z mean for the pond, Bro. Wells, /
out you re a pretty good fellow. WE'D /
call you an amphibious Baptist in +.
Georgia, a sort of highland terrapin!- |
Hear me- whenever q man wants to do |
right he II join the church. l III tell you |
why we were beaten in the war. 1t was
because every man didn't get gun. If |
they had WEI have been sitting up with
the Yankees yet. AS I told them IN
Boston, they didn't whip US, but we
wore ourselves out trying TO whip them.
There were a lot of old bushwhackers
round who'd kill rebel or Yankee
If he thought they had anything.
And there's a lot of old religious bush
whackers round here. Don't belong to
the church! Amt going to join the
church! You would join the church,
you stiugy old hound, if you wasn't
afraid you d have to help to support 1t.
Listen! / want a man to be for God or
against him. He says come out from
among them. Have you done it2
ga servant OF the devil! When you
go to work for the devil will you ask him
what kind of work he wants you to do
for him? Drinking, swearing, gam
bling-doIng what will make the world
think less of you; doing what will dis
grace yourselves, your families, disgrace
God and damn your soul at death! Isn't
that il? Isn't that so2 There are
thousands that are debauchlng
their soul in this city. What does
she devil want you to do? Everything
that is mean aud unnatural and infa-
nous. You want to be q good fellow
! and stay in the crowdl You old decoy
! duck of the devil! And he wants some
nice servants; but tell you, when the
time comes the preferred slaves of the
! preferred slaves of the Shareholder
| were nut on the block with
the rest. You old pampered, fattened
/ fellow, you III come to it. The tattening
| hog don't know what he's eating corn
for; if he did he'd never eat another
/ kernel Llsten-it's his business to de-
bauch men. There are thousands in this
/ city who will be doomed and damned.
If such Is the work the devil
wants you to do. what ought to be
the pay? You ought TO be we'll paid,
the best paid crowd in the world.
! l once saw an old white haired fellow
: standing in nv meeting and said to him,
you've been serving the devil for sixty
years; tell US what pay you we had. L
saw him the next day on the street, and
he said, eff I'd told you last night what
pay I'd received it would have frightened
some OF you to death Pay! hard
heart, stiff neck, hopeless
future and the most rebellious
family of children q man ever had!
What an awful thoughtl What do you
get? What pay2 IN tell you, you serve
him all the week and board yourselves.
You serve him all the year round and
your wife has to keep millinery store.
You disreputable scoundrell You loaf IN
the saloon all dav and then go home to
let your wife support you. You gamble
all the time and let your poor old mother
support you.
"'Hear me, my countrymenl There
are depths into which this service Will
drag YOU that would make a community
shudder and rise up to wipe it out. Talk
about the White Caps and Ku Klux.
They ought to take him out and fix him
up, that man who loafs in a saloon all
day and goes home and eats up his wife s
supper It's no use preaching to such
, folks, They don t need sheriff or courts
to take care of them. The most poverty
stricken man in the world is that young
man of twenty-five who has no money
| and no religion Amt you in a pretty
/ fix? and twenty-five, too. Running
around here and serving the devil Tor
nothing. The only reason l can respect
5 a saloon keeper is because he follows the
business because there is money IN 1t.
But for you who carry out the devil s
schedule for nothing we no words to ex-
press my contempt.
t Listen, if I'm not your friend I m
the biggest fraud afoot. When your
s wages are cut down ten cents in the fac
r tory you make q strike, aud you are
a right, but you let the devil put you dowI
} and roll you IN the mud and jump or
8 you! Oh if could only get you to quit
t but you are a fool, YOU haven
, any sense. I'm for the Ia
= borer every time I'm for the bot
d tom dog. If you are oppressed, I'd hell
r you to strike and strike till every monop
. oily was dead in the country. I'd hell
q you to use every legitimate means
Il but when it comes to sticks and stones
n I'm against them. I'm here in your be
q half. I'm here to get up strike agatns
Y the devil. Oh, how l wish l could d.
= that! What glorious time would begil
n here. Strike against the devill Don
q you feel like striking? You can strik
,s and GO home q free man. I'm here Il
8 your interests. I'll help you all I can
Q Yes, will. mean it.
d ''Let US turn the picture. Servants @
% GodI What does He want us to do
9 Everything that g good and noble an
10 true, only those things that elevate
{
N His wages are cash, and when this life
,r done God bends down, and with ID
great, loving hand carries you home t
}. glory. All this is for you. And why
ID it, If I've told you the truth, that IN
Or devil has so many servants? Listen! Lit
], me get close to you, heart to heart all
in brain to brain. Do you believe ma
J. will serve the devil IL he knows whf
l. he Is doing? I'm talking TO you
70 now, who've married u sweet wife. Ii
re me tell you, II you are in your rlgt
of senses, you II never bring tears to h'
A eyes or chase the bloom from her chez
Id any more than you'd try to fly 10 To
i'll stars. If 1 could get your eyes open you
1t no more serve the devil. l can find huu
ut dreds and hundreds, IL their eyes wei
a, opened to sense and reason, who woul
OF Quit the DEVILS service short off. Oh
n God, open their eyes and their hearts
an Isn't this good time to get up strif
We on the devil2 We're here to help yol
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