The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1894-04-16

w Udl Is UhCIS III IL W. 1ON. " hat
is there in it to add to yoor man
hood, to your character, you IN
tegrity or honor. A man who viii
babitually aud persistently break
ONE Of Co.'s Commandments, #
you will turn him loose he will
break them all. Let me illustr ate:
Suppose | say a man who steals will
lie and get drunk and curse, you
would say that is right. Now
let US COR mence over on
the other side, man that
will curse will lie and get drunk
and steal. All. but you say "you
must not come back over that way.
They told me it is poor rule that
won't work both ways-I have heard
that all my life. You cussing
scoundrels, listen at me few minu
ties. Thou shalt not steal, thou
shalt not swear. You will break
that one, but you won't break this
one. There is money in breaking
this one, and mans nature leans
towards the dollar every time why
don't You break that one, is it be.
cause you are hone st? \ fellow
can go around this, thou shalt not
swear; there is not thing in the
way. Thou shalt not steal, he don't
get three steps until he strikes a
sheriff, court house and a chain
gang. Do you catch on to that?
Take one of those young bucks
sitting out there he is a cusser II
Sam Jones says anything about my
cussing III kill him. Now, Bud,
if live until you kill me I'll live
to be as old as Methuselah Take
young man out there THAT cusses;
he would crash young girls virtue
tonight if he was not afraid of a
double. barfeled shotgun in the
hands of her father.
les, sir, he will ouss. Old cuss
ing colonel, old cussing Judge, old
cussing major, old cussing captain,
old cussing citizen Young men
cuss, all sorts cuss. | want to hold
you up tonight and show you what
an Internal scoundrel you are if you
curse. Yes, he will cuss in q min
ute; he will cuss a preacher, cuss
before q woman, cuss anywhere-he
is a cusser from Cusservlle. OF all
the excuseless sins ever heard Of,
the sin of profanity is the most
excuseless. If you cuss that
amt all you'll do, you dirty
dog you. If l get too
tough for you get up on your hind
feet and shoot back, I'll attend to you.
The mayor of this town must be a
pretty good cusser. Well, l
wouldn't be the mayor of Waco the
way the town is run now. If the
devil was mayor and the imps OF
hell were aldermen, they wouldn't
make any change. 1t suits them
like it is. They couldn't have any
more women in the re- ervation.
they've got enough there now
making living; there wouldn't be
any more saloons here, there are
eighty Of them here now, wide open
every day and every NJ ht,
Gods Holy Sabbath and
all. | understand that the
saloons are all closed TODAY. II
they can close them one Sunday
While Sam Jones is here, why cam
they close them every Sunday? If
the the mayor Of the city is here
tonight would like to have him
tell NE why he can't enforce the
law every Sunday as' well az one
Sunday.
The mayor occupied seat on the
platform to the left of the spe aker,
but be did not introduce himself.
guess your mayor Will ca, me
tomorrow, but III set up with him
while he's doing it. am not talk
ing about him personally, but a. an
official. He may be mn angel per
sonally, but as mayor he is a dead
failure Any mayor you have had
Tor the last twenty years ia az good
as the crowd that elected him.
Brother Jones arraigued the city
government al along the line. lie
considered every violation of the
law and the mayor received the full
dement, OF the revivalist's opinion
OF an official who would wink at