The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1898-10-10
rs HE SAFE?'
REV. DlBBLt CRlTIGiSES
FAIR SlDt SHOWS.
GAMING ON THE GROUNDS
lie TELLS III experience Ia asing
rrreats. rnd Makes some start
Ting Accusations
GAMING ON THE GROUNDS

text from samuel III, chapter IS, verse
20. q" Is the young man Absalom safe2
ANY one who has read the story OF
David is Conversaut with the setting
of the text. David had been drawn
from his home and was sitting at the
gate of the city of Mahanaim looking
out toward his beloved city Jerusalem
wal ting for some word. A footman
was seen coming i'm the distance, the
anxious father forgot all about the re-
bellion, that he had been driven in his
old age by his own son and said. lis
the Young man Absolom safe?" Those
are the words OF an anxious father,
everything was forgotten but the well
fare OF the boy. "ls be safe?' This
is a pertinent question for all ages
IL were to enlarge upon 1t / would
say it is pertinent to this age for three
reasons.
First--From the parents standpoint
Love. obligation, res possibility, lead
the parent occasionally TO say "Is the
young man Of my house safe2' Some
time since / was in the house OF q
mother. There was comfort and even
luxury, but that mother was not at
rest. Her boy had gone 10 the gold
fields Of the northwest. She was not
anxious as to whether her boy should
return with millions or nothing, but
"is he safe?" So there comes times
when pIrents lose sight of everything
else, prosperity, worldly honor, dwin-
die into insignifcance by the side Of
the question, lis my boy safe?"
Secondly-From the young mans
standpoint The young men Of our
banks, stores, shops, who are woven
into our city life, have a right TO ask
the question, "Am 1 Safe DO the
voters of this city care enough abcGt
my after life to throw around me good
influences? Or will they permit me to
meet day by day that which destroys
eternally soul and body? BE not de-
ceved; God is not Knocked, FOR what
ever man soweth that shall he reap.
Gods judgments are sure and eternal.
Thirdly-From municipal stand
point. DO we ever stop and ask
"What is the future to be?' We can,
not say that we are entirely indiifer-
ent to the question. Onr city depends
for future on your young men. II
they are noble, strong, manly, then
will be our city. So say the question
is a pertinent one for this age.
How must we answer Dav;d's ques-
tion2 Before God what must the an.
swer be ? Have we any right to an
swer it but in the affirmative How
we ought TO 60 TO our business and
make money, TO our tables and eat, TO
our rooms and sleep, enter society and
laugh until we can say, " The boy
that / am the father of is safe. Faith
ers, mothers, answer this question. /
hold you before God until you do.
l., n Nc nntri1fa
ton? What must we say? No. The
young man is not safe Then the bur
den OF proof falls on me and ! will try
to prove my statement. The young
man is no, safe.
First Because Of the act Of the
voters OF our city, There could not be
a saloon, bawdy house, or gambling
room inside Of the corporation OF our
city were they not voted in by mon.
l am glad that the mothers Of our city
have not voted for salOons-that which
ruins soul and body Only day or
two since ! read in our morning paper,
Two drunks run in last night 4"
shame Shame Shame , Shame TO
q city that will legalize that which
will put man behind the bars
Secondly Because of the things
tributary. Our morning paper said,
" The fair was great success The
writer must have high appreciation
OF success. II was a saloon annex.
Let us see. A snake show, where lit
tie girls appeared, ranging from 6ve
10 twelve years OF age, with absolutely
nothing on but thin calico wrapper,
with a snake wrapped around their
necks. Two ladies had to change
their positions because the rotten eggs
thrown at a negro head spattered on
their clothes. A young man Letore a
tent crying, Young men wanted
here no married men or women.
Gambling could be seen from one end
of the ground to the other. A saloon
under the grand stand. A high idea
of success our morning paper has, in
deed Is the young man safe in such
surroundings
Thirdly. Because if the houefered
condition of our officer,
Let me state here that / am Re
publican, have always voted that
ticket, there is no political meaning
in what / low say. Mr. Buckner and
went to the ground Wednesday after
noon and had the gentleman under
the grand stand arrested. Juoge Fos-
ter appeared on the scene and was
soon led by the fair ring and saloon
element TO set at liberty the prisoner
withI papers, and inside Of twenty
minutes they were back at the gamb-
ling place as free as ever Thursday
afternoon reprocured a warrant for
their arrest and 10 seize the iustru-
ment. Replaced this ina the hands o.
our Sheriff Rheinhart, lie absolutely
refused TO serve it. Afterwards we
met him on the street, we had a talk
with him, then he denied that he
knew he had warrant. When l left
his buggy to get the instrument from
Mr.. Buckner, our good sheriff put
whip 10 his team and left us, however
We 'olloved close at hand, drove into
his yard after him, he grabbed the
warru MT, crumpled il in his hands, and
put il In his pocket, not looking az IL.
| Then he turned to us and said. "l
have had enough of you fellows get
off OF my lot" Nice treatment at the
/ hands o. our sheriff With warrant
that had been drawn by our county
attorney. I le We IL TO your Judge
ment, good people We need him next
term, do we not.
l did not see the deputy Mr. Carpen-
ter, but Mr.. Buckner said he did and
he refused TO serve the warrant. We
then came up town and found the
colored constable Although ne was ou
the street he said he was sick and
the ground aud asked Constable
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