The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1898-12-23
A APARTMENT QUERY.
Shall a Man Quit a Job Because
Il Is Hard?

John &. Woolley, in recent ad
dress at Oshkosh, Wisconsin, gave
a word Of cheer to discouraged work
ers in our great cause. He spoke
as follows.
When got into Chicago this
morning on my way fLom Missouri
to this meeting, with my throat tired
out and my face looking the worse
for a night of unrest on the train, my
wife said to me, "My poor fellow,
you are going to break your heart
and the more you try to do good
the more the church hates you, and
the church vote is falling off, and
the Woman's Christian Temperance
Union is going to pieces, the people
OF this country want whisky, the
people Of the church in this country
breed crooked men. You'd better
stay at home with us. 1t is too hard
for you" Well now | will tell you,
she b ad the right Of that thing, if a
man is to quit job because it is
hard. II man ought to shun an
Occupation because it is difficult,
then / ought to 60 home, you dele
gates ought to 60 home, the quicker
the better. You ought not to have
come if you are afraid of thing
that is hard. II a thing that is small
is disgraceful and unworthy, you
surely ought not to belong to the
Prori bition party. II IL small. But
if you reason that way, then you
preac hers would have to resign from
your work, and you mothers would
stop raising baoies, that is hard, and
you would have to quit teaching
school, that is nard, and you w O.
L U women, God help and bless
you everyone, you better give up
that job, that is hard.
Here is woman with white rib
bon knot on the bosom of her gown.
She has been a member of the Un-
ion for ten or more years. She has
done her level best all the time. She
has gone in all weathers carrying
petitions to prevent the saloons in
her own town, she has annoyed the
preacher and the school teachers,
and she has gone from house to
rouse circulating literature, she has
been a nuisance in the school meet
ings, she has saved an egg every
day and sold them to get mon ~ to
pay her dues TO the Union, and she
has taught Sunday school class of
boys not to smoke, and she has
the train for girls seeking
service, to steer them to safe home /,
over night, so that the temptation /.
might be kept out OF their way, and
yet drunkards are just as thick :
llong the highway, and there are as :
many boys smoking, and as many /.
yirls ruined, and the ministers are '
ust as easy as ever, snd teachers are
ust as careless as ever, and as many
ZONES are being wrecked as ever. !
Why don't you quit it, why don't !,
,ou take off your knot of ribbon and =
20 home and mind your own busi- ! !
less.
You have tried to start a news
paper, it is hard. And here is !,
Minister who has been on the par
sh for two or five years, doing his :
evel best, and the people have be- : :
,un to chaff him. He has not sim Z
led, and people begin to make fun !.
f him, saying "You have drawn !. J.
our salary with great regularity, y :
nd you have held services :,
gith great persistence, now show us J
ow much you have raised the wealth :,
{ this town since you struck it," :, !
nd the poor preacher would have !, !.
D stand mute or confess he did not :
now whether he had raised it or :,
ot, but would be able to say, 81 :,
ave preached the Gospel, stunning y
othing, for Jesus sake, have ! !
reached the whole truth, and if q
iod cannot raise better crop of cit - :,
.ens out Of that, my responsibility
J at an end, for | have done my y, y
,vel best" =
Here is school teacher who has y
cen teaceing for months and years !
a this town. You say to her, "You :
ave cut quite swath in this town, =
on have been to college and to nor =
nal school, but before | permit my !
influence to go in favor Of this school !
mother minute, want to know a
ow much you have raised the char a
cter Of that class of boys in your Il
harge.' She would have to stand
nute or confess she did not know Q
ut would be happy if she could v
ay, II have taught the truth ac- O
ordng to the best methods knew. G
have not saved myself, | have #
one the best | could, and if God I
annot raise good men out Of thatlc